Tagged: Minding the GAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
A tribute to Gilded Age and Progressive Era historian Dr. John D. Buenker
The history of protest and attacks on Confederate monuments
On the state’s failure to protect Black Americans in 1919 and today
Why the postal service used to poke holes in envelopes to try to prevent the spread of disease
A reading list on race and democracy for teaching in an uprising
Wet markets, stigma, and xenophobia
The Tulsa Massacre and a historian’s search for identity
Connecting coronavirus and racial violence through histories of white supremacy
Black women activists who paved the way for this moment
Dr. Nancy Unger, SHGAPE President-Elect, on Belle La Follette and using white privilege to fight racism
Racial violence in the North: the lynching of three Black men one hundred years ago in Duluth
Book review of Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance
When a good voice on the telephone was considered feminine
An interview with Dr. Alaina E. Roberts, member of the JGAPE Editorial Board, on her research on 19th-century Indian Territory
Confederate monuments and the disconnect between white and Black realities
Locating the original document of General Order No. 3 in the National Archives
The limits of Black forgiveness and the need to articulate how the historical discipline is doing the work to end white supremacy
The racist and anti-working class history of domestic military intervention
Native Americans have long been undercounted in the census and COVID-19 presents an added challenge
A bibliography of Black queer thought
The even uglier history of the Athens Confederate monument
The material culture of homemade face masks
Public health checkpoints and the enduring values that guide Lakota people and their leaders
Examining the 1919 race riots as a touchstone for Chicago’s carceral machinery
How segregation and racial violence stymied the innovation of Black inventors
Racist violence in 1898 Wilmington echoes in recent police officer recordings
Central Park and the history of racism, removal, and exclusion in protecting “nature”
Book review of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
The case for reparations in historical context
Looking for William Dorsey Swann, “the queen of drag,” in the National Archives
Confederate monuments and the disenfranchisement of Black voters
The long history of food as protest in Black communities
Cover Image: Emancipation Day celebration band, Texas, June 19, 1900. The Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas Libraries.
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