The Two Man Gentlemen Band: Taft is an easy target, but I do like these guys.
Entries Tagged as 'Gilded Age'
You Can’t Sneak Nothing Past William Howard Taft
September 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Found History · Gilded Age
Survival of the Fittest
November 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Timothy Burke on old weird eugenics.
Tags: Academia · Blogging · Gilded Age
Angels and Octopodes
September 22nd, 2009 · 24 Comments
Was Cthulhu a railroad? The wires–or tentacles–connecting the Ghostbusters, H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Frank Norris, BLDGBLOG, AT&T, and me.
Tags: Alternate History · Favorites · Gilded Age · History@Play
There Will Be Zeppelins
May 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Brett Holman (Airminded) is blogging the phantom airship scare of 1909.
Tags: Gilded Age · Paleoblogging
Speak In A Raspy Growl and Carry a Batarang
July 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Scott Kaufman reports (without, alas, documentation) that Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale based their Batman on Teddy Roosevelt.
Tags: Asides · Comics · Gilded Age
Do You Feel Lucky, Steampunk?
July 22nd, 2008 · 16 Comments
The Kinematrix has you: three alternate Victorian internets.
Tags: Alternate History · Early Internets · Favorites · Gilded Age · Robots · Telephony
The Gilded Age Internet and the People's Telephone
July 9th, 2008 · 17 Comments
Plus the Jimmy Carterian Internet and the Millennial Pneumatic Tube.
Tags: Early Internets · Favorites · Gilded Age · Telephony
Also, I Am In Muncie
February 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments
I am flattered and pleased. That is all.
Tags: Academia · Asides · Gilded Age
The Further Adventures of Ben Franklin's Ghost
November 8th, 2007 · 8 Comments
Ben Franklin’s ghost tapped John Murray Spear to build an electrical messiah and save the world. Who was using who?
Tags: Ben Franklin · Cranks · Favorites · Gilded Age · Old Weird America · Technology · Telephony
Great Franklin's Ghost
November 6th, 2007 · 9 Comments
The posthumous adventures of Benjamin Franklin.
Tags: Ben Franklin · Cranks · Favorites · Gilded Age · Old Weird America