March 12, 2021
The Rest Is History
A propaganda-filled cookbook, medieval birth girdles, and the bubonic plague.
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March 05, 2021
The Rest Is History
A “really exciting” spearhead, merpeople sightings, and a fancy chariot.
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March 01, 2021
An Omnivorous Biped That Wears Breeches
A magazine columnist considers the failures of men’s fashion in 1915.
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February 26, 2021
The Rest Is History
The great polio vaccine heist, mullets, and a “highly significant” Roman phallus.
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February 12, 2021
The Rest Is History
A new continent, sounds from a very old seashell, and the possibilities of a twenty-first-century Federal Writers’ Project.
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Monumental Mistakes
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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
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Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
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Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
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Young communists engage in party matchmaking.