Posted: February 1, 2021
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. What the evolution of slang shows about how women lost status in saloons The story of Joseph Rainey, the first Black member of the U.S. House of Representatives Debunking the myth of Yellowstone as pristine wilderness A […]
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Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: December 1, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Class, colonialism, racism, and the fight for women’s suffrage in Puerto Rico The Election Day massacre in Ocoee, FL, 100 years later Election transparency and the glass ballot box A brief history of the presidential concession speech […]
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Posted: November 2, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Black cemeteries as a counter-memory to Confederate monuments Echoes of the Panic of 1873 When the 1918 flu pandemic struck the White House A bibliography of the Twin Cities How the presidency has shaped race relations Italian […]
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Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: September 29, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Janet Olson, Archivist, and Kristin Jacobsen, Assistant Archivist, Frances Willard House Museum and WCTU Archives, Evanston, IL September 29, 2020 This post is part of a series exploring the lived experience of Americans during the 1918 flu pandemic. Read the previous posts in the series by Coyote […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, history of medicine, temperance
Posted: September 15, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet, PhD September 15, 2020 This post is part of a series exploring the lived experience of Americans during the 1918 flu pandemic. Read the previous posts in the series by Coyote Shook, Jeff Nichols, Chelsea Chamberlain, Ann Reid, Joseph M. Gabriel, and Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig, and E. […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, history of medicine
Posted: September 1, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. #19SuffrageStories and animated stickers from the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and National Archives Toys, memory, and the Lost Cause Confronting colonialism in bird names On Black Richmonders’ struggle against police brutality during Reconstruction Review of an economic, […]
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Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: August 18, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Thomas MacMillan August 18, 2020 The recent uprisings for Black lives have led to calls for the restructuring of society. The principal targets have been urban police forces, which have received lavish funding and organizational impunity for many years. However, these forces are beginning to […]
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Tagged: education, immigration, religion
Posted: August 11, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig, and E. Thomas Ewing August 11, 2020 This post is part of a series exploring the lived experience of Americans during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Read the previous posts in the series by Coyote Shook, Jeff Nichols, Chelsea Chamberlain, Ann Reid, and Joseph M. […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, history of medicine
Posted: August 3, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Recreating Inez Milholland Boissevain’s suffrage campaign through the American West Segregation and surveillance in the history of urban planning in St. Louis Monuments, commemoration, and the contested legacy of Ulysses S. Grant Visualizing the data on when […]
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Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: July 28, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Joseph M. Gabriel, Ph.D. July 28, 2020 This is the second of two posts on teaching the 1918 influenza pandemic, as part of a series exploring the lived experience of Americans during the pandemic. Read the first teaching post here, and read the previous posts […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, history of medicine, teaching
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