Old is the New New

This is strange and wonderful: Elderly people reenact iconic photos of the 20th Century. Barista’s commentary is smart and generous too.

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Historical plaques to commemorate ephemeral and inconsequential moments.

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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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Gilded Age gaming at the Museum of Lost Interactions.

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The Ronald Reagan alternate history film festival.

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More history than one blog can handle.

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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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An occult text in the form of six vinyl LPs: Bob Dylan, Harry Smith, and the Anthology of American Folk Music.

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