Gilded Age Entrepreneur details the life of an unjustly forgotten Gilded Age figure. Older brother of the notorious George Pullman, Albert Pullman made three early contributions to the success of Pullman’s Palace Car Company: his… Read More

In A Great Many Refugees Thomas A. Krainz examines how communities in the American West cared for refugees. The ten case studies include a range of different causes that forced people to flee, including revolution, war, genocide,… Read More

Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation following the American Civil War. From labor to consumption, manufacturing to regulation, tobacco was utterly reconstructed, “comparatively a new industry,” as one contemporary… Read More

Playwright, composer, lyricist, director, producer, and star performer George M. Cohan (1878–1942) looms large in musical theater legend, remembered for tunes like “You’re a Grand Old Flag” and “Give My Regards to Broadway.” Cohan’s early… Read More

A fresh exploration of the life and work of American expatriate artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855-1919), whose depictions of expat high society in Paris won acclaim in Europe and the United States and still feature… Read More

Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent explores the history of the Gilded Age, using three people as its guide. Robert Ray Hamilton was a state lawmaker from New York and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton. John Dudley Sargent came from a long… Read More

Charles Cowlam’s career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. He is the only person known to have been pardoned by both Abraham Lincoln… Read More

As Americans–both civilians and veterans–worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World War I, they bound cultural constructs of blindness to all the emotions and contingencies of mobilizing and fighting the… Read More