Old is the New New

It’s just like Jeremy Boggs says: History is a perpetual beta.

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Go, Daddy, go! The syncopated world of swingtech, from the Ellington Locomotor to the unstoppable Lindy Drive.

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How I spent 1993. Or, why computer games are not effective tools for teaching history and how they could be.

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Playing in order to learn is teacher logic, where play is the means and learning is the end. The kids who will keep doing it after the bell rings are the ones who learn history in order to play.

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The Ronald Reagan alternate history film festival.

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With a library card, a good search engine, and the right kind of mind, one can wreak all kind of mischief on historical “facts.”

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Canada is a country with too much geography and not enough alternate history. Until now.

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Five allo-historical riffs on the revelation that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.

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It’s Pierre Trudeau versus Doug Henning in the fourth of five alternate Canadian histories.

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The Great White North is grey! The third of five alternate Canadian histories.

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“A flannel curtain has descended across the continent.” The second of five alternate Canadian histories.

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Undead or Canadian? The first of five alternate Canadian histories.

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Grab your turbo-pistols, snap on your big bubble space helmet, and rocket to adventure in the Astounding year of 1963!

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