History and Hijinks

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July 2025

Drinking Like a Regency Buck
What if you were praised for drinking lots of alcohol? In Regency England, you could be! Well… if you were a wealthy man.
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Choose your own adventure... in radical journalism. Full version.
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Choose your own adventure... in radical journalism. Part 3 (and the last).
Ever wanted to hand-write a newspaper?...
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Choose your own adventure… in radical journalism. Part 2.
So, unlike in your alternate incarnation in Part 1, you are a subversively-minded French journalist who actually does live in France.
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When Pre-Revolutionary France dreamed of transatlantic flights
Conquering the skies in the 1780s.
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Radical Journalism Edition (Part 1)
Bad news: you are a young man in pre-Revolutionary France, and you are intent on speaking truth to power - or, at least, to the people to whom that…
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When Pre-Revolutionary France dreamed of transatlantic flights
In the 1780s, the skies over Paris transformed into a stage for audacious scientific experiments, as pioneering aeronautical inventions ignited an…
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A Less-Than-Famous Gain of the French Revolution
It has to do with a ruler. No, not that kind.
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A Less-Remembered Gain of the French Revolution
It has to do with a ruler. No, not that kind.
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Stop the Presses...
Newspapers were a Serious Business in eighteenth-century France.
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Stop the Presses...
...or, at least, they tried to.
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