Read.
Specifically, spend several days reading The Alienist, followed immediately by The Angel of Darkness, and then go right into The Cabinet of Curiosities.
All three are set in New York City. The Alienist is in 1896, Angel of Darkness is 1897, and Cabinet of Curiosities involves a case that started in the 1870s or so.
Combine it with the fact that it wasn’t that long ago I read The Beautiful Cigar Girl and a slight fixation with Steampunk and it leads to a lot of sitting around going “wait, what year is this again?”
I’d also like to say that I’ve been disappointed by the Internets. Searching for “Teddy Roosevelt fighting a robot” gave me nothing.
However, “Theodore Roosevelt fighting a robot” gave me this…
Which only proves that you can count on Cracked for just about everything.
