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Minding the GAPE – June 2019

Posted: June 30, 2019

A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. A three-part series of posts on the international consciousness of the rural Midwest (part two) (part three) On the trial of Emma Simpson: murder, gender expectations, and the limits of the unwritten law in the Progressive Era […]

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Coxey’s Army of 1894 and the State of Populist Studies

Posted: June 26, 2019

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Dr. Wesley Bishop Jeffrey Ostler once stated that the contentious field of Populist studies was, “one of the bloodiest episodes in American historiography.” The historiographical debate over Populism is, to say the least, long and nuanced. Historians as different as Richard Hofstadter, Walter Nugent, Lawrence […]

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Listening to the Progressive Era Domestic Soundscape

Posted: June 18, 2019

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Dr. J. Martin Vest In my doctoral dissertation “Vox Machinae: Phonographs and the Birth of Sonic Modernity, 1877-1930,” I presented a cultural history of the early recording industry in close conversation with the so-called “New Materialisms.” Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS), phenomenological philosophy, […]

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Minding the GAPE – May 2019

Posted: May 31, 2019

Introducing a monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Nine exhibitions on women’s history to visit this year A photo tour through the Stamp Division at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the 1890s A two-part review of a conference on the Greater Reconstruction […]

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Interview with SHGAPE President Al Broussard

Posted: May 24, 2019

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. Below we share an interview with our new SHGAPE president, Dr. Albert S. Broussard. Dr. Broussard is a professor of History at Texas A&M University, where he has taught since 1985. He will serve as SHGAPE president from 2019-2021. Could you tell us a little bit […]

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Labor Reformer George Gunton and a Progressive Era Divorce Scandal

Posted: March 20, 2019

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Stephen Leccese “What a scoundrel!” my mom exclaimed as I told her the following story. This is not a typical reaction when I talk about my work–my research on economic theory and policy is not exactly a scandal-ridden field for non-historians. So when I came […]

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“A Place Among Original Investigators:” Walter Wyckoff, Alfred Pierce, and Me

Posted: March 5, 2019

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Beau Driver Most historians have felt the thrill of discovery at some point while in the archives. There is a rush that comes with finding something new. For me, it has often felt as though I was suddenly taking an active role in the history […]

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The Greatest Show on Earth: Power, Spectacle, and Performance in the Traveling Circus

Posted: February 19, 2019

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by William J. Hansard (Cover Image: This building in Troy, New York, has been plastered with posters advertising the Ringling Brothers circus, demonstrating the extremes to which circuses would go to stake their claim. Image courtesy of the Ringling Museum Archives. The author is indebted to the archives […]

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Race, Privilege, and the Problem of the Subaltern Franco-American

Posted: January 29, 2019

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Patrick Lacroix   When the Payette family moved to northern New York some time around 1850, the mass migration of French Canadians to the United States was in its infancy.[1] This movement of people from the St. Lawrence River valley continued for the better part […]

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A Sneak Peek at One of the SHGAPE-Sponsored Panels at the 2019 AHA!

Posted: January 2, 2019

The 2019 annual meeting for the American Historical Association will take place in Chicago from January 3-6, and SHGAPE is sponsoring two great panels! Today on the blog, we’re pleased to feature a “sneak peek” of one of the sponsored sessions, “Secret Liaisons and Disloyalty: Space and Gender in Progressive-Era New York.” The panel is scheduled for […]

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