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Posted: January 17, 2024

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Minding the GAPE – July 2022

Posted: August 1, 2022

A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. How a surgeon’s quest to reconstruct the faces of WWI soldiers laid the groundwork for modern plastic surgery The legacy of park designer Frederick Law Olmstead An overview of the Comstock Laws and abortion regulation Become a […]

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Minding the GAPE – June 2022

Posted: July 5, 2022

A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Edith Keating, pioneering aerial photographer Preserving intellectual disability history at the Elwyn Archives and Museum Marines and the making of America’s empire The Civil War in the “Long” Age of Revolutions A dancing tour of the Library […]

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Minding the Gape – May 2022

Posted: June 1, 2022

A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Recent anti-Asian American violence shows the need to teach more Asian American history How the Reconstruction amendments matter in the debate over abortion rights Facial reconstruction of wounded soldiers after WWI Introducing a blog series on urban […]

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Reading Red Emma: A Critique of Liberal Democracy in America

Posted: May 31, 2022

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Kollin Fields May 31, 2022  “…I tell you that I hate your laws [and] your ‘order,’ for I know but one ‘order’—it is the highest potency of order—Anarchy.” ~Emma Goldman, 1893   “Murderous Emma Goldman, will burn in hell-fire for your treachery to our country.” […]

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The Met Gala Was Not the Fancy Dress Ball Historians Were Hoping For

Posted: May 12, 2022

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox May 12, 2022 Last Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City returned to its “First Monday at May” tradition, or as it is commonly known: the Met Gala. Drawing media attention and fashionistas from around the world, the Gala […]

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Minding the GAPE – April 2022

Posted: May 2, 2022

A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Marking the 110th anniversary of the gift of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to Washington, D.C. Takeaways for the study of diplomatic history from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era White women as agents […]

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Minding the GAPE – March 2022

Posted: April 4, 2022

A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.  Sitting Bull, Lakota sovereignty and land rights, and the establishment of Yellowstone National Park For its 150th anniversary, a look at Yellowstone’s legislative history The 110th anniversary of New Mexico statehood The Russian invasion of Ukraine: resources […]

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HBO’s The Gilded Age: A Disappointingly One-Sided Depiction of a Complex Era

Posted: March 29, 2022

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Nancy C. Unger and Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols March 29, 2022 This review contains small spoilers. Our co-edited collection, A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Wiley (Wiley Blackwell, 2017), will be released in an updated, paperback edition this spring. As scholars […]

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Minding the GAPE – February 2022

Posted: February 28, 2022

A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.  Aileen Cole Stewart, one of the first African American nurses admitted to the Army Nurse Corps, who served during the 1918 influenza pandemic Underrepresentation of Black women in Chicago’s public statuary and the resistance to adding more […]

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