Posted: February 19, 2020
By Dr. Theresa Ventura Taal Volcano crowns an island in the middle of Lake Taal in Southern Luzon. Its wide-mouthed cone is filled with water, giving Taal the Ripley’s Believe It or Not distinction of containing the largest lake on an island in a lake that is also on an island. Taal also has the […]
Continue Reading »
Blog
Tagged: disasters, environmental history, imperialism, Indigenous histories, Progressive Era
Posted: January 31, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Podcast episode on the 19th amendment The “bone wars”: dinosaur fossils as commodity Dr. Albert Broussard, SHGAPE President, is quoted in this New York Times piece on history textbooks In Tennessee, rediscovering the first impeached president through […]
Continue Reading »
Blog
Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: December 31, 2019
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. On the “baby bust” of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries The history of recording and reproducing birdsong A new exhibit chronicling the experiences of African Americans before, during, and after WWI SHGAPE Blog Co-Editor-in-Chief Dr. Lauren MacIvor […]
Continue Reading »
Blog
Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: December 11, 2019
Introducing the team of editors behind the SHGAPE blog: Amanda Lynn Brewer is a Ph.D. Candidate at Michigan State University specializing in U.S. Social and Cultural History and the History of Medicine. She was a recipient of a 2019 OAH Conference Travel Award from the Program Committee of the Society for Historians of the […]
Continue Reading »
Announcements, Blog
Tagged: SHGAPE news
Posted: November 29, 2019
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. On W.E.B. Du Bois’ striking infographics How Jim Crow compounded the grief of Black mothers whose sons were killed in WWI Hunger: the battle that didn’t end with Armistice Day Why Art Nouveau failed to flourish in […]
Continue Reading »
Blog
Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: November 21, 2019
Summer Programs in Newport, Chicago, and London Study nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architecture, design, and the arts at one of the Victorian Society in America’s internationally acclaimed Summer Schools! Explore the roots of American modernism during our six-day Chicago program (June 11-16); visit The Breakers and McKim, Mead & White’s Isaac Bell House, gardens, historic […]
Continue Reading »
Announcements, Blog
Posted: November 5, 2019
By Dr. Keith McCall Emancipation introduced massive demographic shifts within the U.S. South, and with them came cultural, social, and political changes. These trends and transformations were driven by the hundreds of thousands of freedpeople who left their places of enslavement and their old neighborhoods to strike out for new locations where, they believed, they […]
Continue Reading »
Blog
Tagged: Black history, Gilded Age, Reconstruction
Posted: October 30, 2019
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Labor strikes are back A nineteenth-century ban on medical advertising hurt women doctors Alan Lessoff, one of the editors of the SHGAPE blog, reviews Benjamin Heber Johnson’s Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era […]
Continue Reading »
Blog
Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: October 8, 2019
by Lizzie Evens On 10th August 1916, detective Frances Benzecry visited a young woman, Elizabeth Kessler, and her foster mother at their home in the Yorkville neighbourhood of New York’s upper east side. At that time, Kessler was embroiled in an abortion trial in which she accused German nurse Katie Rath of performing a criminal […]
Continue Reading »
Blog
Tagged: abortion, history of medicine, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: September 30, 2019
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. On Black economic citizenship after Reconstruction Looking to Indigenous values to envision Hawaiian decolonization and self-determination What the postmortem life of executed mass murderer Anton Probst reveals about American medical history The long history of not having […]
Continue Reading »
Blog
Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Receive a year's subscription to our quarterly SHGAPE journal.