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A sepia-toned pen and ink drawing of a couple ensconced in a game of chess. The man holds his head in his hands.

Kings of the Cable: The British Chess Association Festival of 1872

By Levi Rubeck • May 3rd, 2022

With more players gaining proficiency with pawns and rooks and bishops by the day, a hunger has emerged – the people cry out for more games, more analysis and more rivalry!

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Almost Ready to Face the Present

By Levi Rubeck • May 2nd, 2022

Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence has reminded us that we are more resilient than we often believe ourselves to be.

Players Handbook Rerun

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • May 2nd, 2022

What revelations lurk behind the idol of Moloch, within the pages of the first edition Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook?

A grainy sepia photograph of the windows on a New Jersey apartment building.

Meet the Met!

By Matt Marrone • April 29th, 2022

While no one would mistake the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a restaurant or trading post, its moniker lacks a certain. . . flair.

A sepia-toned pen and ink lithograph of three men each looking into an arm of a tripod microscope

We Should Pay Attention to Germ Theory!

By Rob Rich • April 28th, 2022

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch have an interesting theory about sickness, and we should start paying attention.

A sepia-toned, pen and ink drawing of a telegraph machine.

A Near Miss for International Communication and Progress!

By Phoenix Simms • April 27th, 2022

We have never been more aware that a man is a social creature and part of a very large web of interconnections in this world!

A sepia-toned photograph of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African-American a capella group from Fisk University.

Sigurd Springer’s Music Box

By Noah Springer • April 26th, 2022

In correspondence from a temporarily quiet battlefield, Private First Class Sigurd Springer writes on the premier melodians of 1872.

The Fantasy Trip

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • April 25th, 2022

That’s over the river and through the woods, right?

A pen and ink drawing of Victorian children playing a game of hoop & stick.

The Future of Merry-Making!

By Ed Coleman • April 22nd, 2022

Hoop & stick (and other frivolities).

A sepia-toned close-up of the first stone tablet of Gilgamesh.

More Like Gilga-meh!

By Stu Horvath • April 21st, 2022

This supposed epic, this paradigm-shifting piece of literature, is just another flood myth! Do you know how many flood myths we already have lying around?

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