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Teaching the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in the Time of COVID-19, Part 2

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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Teaching the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in the Time of COVID-19, Part 1

Posted: July 21, 2020

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Joseph M. Gabriel, Ph.D. July 21, 2020 This is the first of two posts on teaching the 1918 influenza pandemic, as part of a series exploring the lived experience of Americans during the pandemic. Read part two here. Read the previous posts in the series […]

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Decoding the 1918 Flu

Posted: July 7, 2020

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. 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 […]

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Minding the GAPE – June 2020

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 […]

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“An Avalanche of Unexpected Sickness”: Institutions and Disease in 1918 and Today

Posted: June 23, 2020

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. 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, […]

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The Ghosts of Great Lakes

Posted: June 17, 2020

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. 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 […]

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Flu in the Arctic Text

Posted: June 9, 2020

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. 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 […]

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Flu in the Arctic: Influenza in Alaska, 1918

Posted: June 9, 2020

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. 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 […]

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Minding the GAPE – May 2020

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 […]

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Britain, the United States, and the Danish West Indies, 1916-17

Posted: May 5, 2020

Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. 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 […]

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