Category Archives: 1840s

Plug Uglies: The Gang with Their Own City

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Scott Huffines

By Nick Dupree (Yesteeyear.com, 4/11/2012) “…The Plug Uglies grew and grew to be the most powerful and feared club of nativist thugs in history, the term “plug ugly” itself becoming genericized to mean any such stovepipe hat-wearing street tough. While … Continue reading →

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A Chowder Feast

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Scott Huffines

(Baltimore Sun, 8/20/1842) A party of gentlemen left our city on Thursday morning at an early hour, for the shores of Back River, with the determination of having an old fashioned chowder dinner, of which so much has been said … Continue reading →

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The Telegraph Has Arrived: “Time and Space Has Been Completely Annihilated”

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Scott Huffines

By Rebecca J. Rosen (The Atlantic, 2/14/2012) There have been many, many times over the last few decades when a new technology delivered a certain moment of awe: the first time I saw a video stream over the Internet, or … Continue reading →

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“What hath God wrought.”

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Scott Huffines

By Dead Presidents Daily “Samuel Morse (left) sent his famed telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore on May 24, 1844, and it’s often mentioned as if it were the very first message ever relayed by telegraph, but it isn’t so. … Continue reading →

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Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven (1845)

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Scott Huffines

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” interpreted by Christopher Walken, illustrations by Gustave Dore. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems, 1845 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and … Continue reading →

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