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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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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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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Posted: May 31, 2022
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.” ~Letter to Emma Goldman after the assassination of William […]
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Tagged: anarchism, biography, economic history, immigration, labor, political history, Progressive Era, socialism, women's history
Posted: May 12, 2022
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 is the annual fundraising event for the museum’s Costume […]
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Tagged: art, current events, economic history, fashion, gender, Gilded Age, museums, women's history
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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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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Posted: March 29, 2022
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 who have long been immersed in this pivotal period, […]
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Tagged: Black history, economic history, gender, Gilded Age, immigration, labor, political history, racial violence, urban history
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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Posted: February 1, 2022
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic for the omicron surge Journals from the only eyewitness to the deaths of both Lincoln and Garfield An interactive look at the 1,700 members of Congress who once enslaved Black people […]
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