Not exactly the "History" Boys, but... [Diogenes Boys' Historical Links]

[flyakate]

I've been working on an "episode guide" to plan out the plot arcs for the first season of The Diogenes Boys (three cheers for isurrendered!) I'm trying to make it at least mildly historically accurate (or in the realm thereof) so thought I'd make a page for all these links. Enjoy, I know I will!


Wikipedia:

Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Pinkerton Detective Agency

Molly Maguires

Jesse James

Convicts in Australia


Other:

The Molly Maguires and the detectives Sensationalist and only mildly historical? Probably. BUT it was written by Allan Pinkerton, and the whole idea amuses the heck out of me.

Women's Rights in the 1800s America

A Gay History of the World - the 1800s (my inner Jon/Sam shipper required this)

Philadelphia in the 1800s

Comments

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

... I never knew James Buchanan was gay! haha, I wonder if my grandmother knows? I'm descended from his family.

[flyakate]

I didn't know any of that either before reading that article... except for the whole bit about Oscar Wilde, which I always found depressing. Poor guy.

Sometimes family trees show that it's a small world after all, I guess, hahaha ;o)