When Historians Drink

Here's a wonderful little piece in the NY Times about a group of amateur historians in California who have dedicated themselves to honoring obscure and off-beat aspects of history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/us/14california.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th

And in a somewhat more serious vein, a new blog on Gilded Age history called "The Greased Pig" --

http://www.greasedpig.blogspot.com/