Posted: July 7, 2020
By Ann Reid July 7, 2020 This post is part of a series exploring the lived experience of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Read the first post by Coyote Shook here. Read the second post by Jeff Nichols here. Read the third post by Chelsea Chamberlain here. I had never heard of the 1918 influenza pandemic when my […]
Posted: June 30, 2020
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 […]
Posted: June 23, 2020
By Chelsea Chamberlain June 23, 2020 This is the third post in our series exploring the lived experience of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Read the first post by Coyote Shook here. Read the second post by Jeff Nichols here. Between August 14 and August 19, 1908, the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-minded Children at Elwyn […]
Posted: June 17, 2020
By Jeff Nichols June 17, 2020 This post was originally published by the Chicago Reader and is reprinted here with permission. This is the second post in our series on the 1918 influenza pandemic. Read the first post here. In 1918 in the northern suburban fringe of Chicago, an insidious illness killed twice the number […]
Posted: June 9, 2020
This is the text of the graphic essay “Flu in the Arctic” by Coyote Shook. Find the original post here and view the full PDF here. Title Panel: Flu in the Arctic: Influenza in Alaska, 1918 ~Coyote Shook~ [Black and white sketch drawing of a moose skull resting on a hill with trees, water, […]
Posted: June 9, 2020
By Coyote Shook June 9, 2020 This graphic essay leads off a new series on the SHGAPE blog exploring the lived experience of Americans during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Also be sure to check out the list of further readings below. View the full PDF of “Flu in the Arctic” here. Or read the text […]
Posted: June 1, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. We are living in a Red Spring “Talking About Race” web portal released by Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture The history of racist policing in America A reading list on U.S. immigration and […]
Posted: May 5, 2020
By Dr. Ben Markham May 5, 2020 The islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John are surrounded by Puerto Rico—once a Spanish colony—and the British Virgin Islands. Between the early eighteenth century and the early twentieth, the three main islands, combined with smaller minor islands in the surrounding archipelago, formed a single Danish […]
Posted: May 1, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. A trip down the rabbit hole of the etymological origin of the name “Triscuits” Looking at the 1918 flu through the lens of food history How past public health emergencies have changed the way we live Assimilation […]
Posted: April 22, 2020
By Dr. Sara Harwood Working with three first-year students and two graduate students at Georgia State University, I oversaw the development of a self-guided walking tour that uses David Fort Godshalk’s Veiled Visions to describe the horrific events that occurred on Saturday, September 22nd, the first day of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot. The tour, […]
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