Posted: May 1, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. A trip down the rabbit hole of the etymological origin of the name “Triscuits” Looking at the 1918 flu through the lens of food history How past public health emergencies have changed the way we live Assimilation […]
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Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: April 22, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Sara Harwood Working with three first-year students and two graduate students at Georgia State University, I oversaw the development of a self-guided walking tour that uses David Fort Godshalk’s Veiled Visions to describe the horrific events that occurred on Saturday, September 22nd, the first […]
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Tagged: digital history, Progressive Era, public history, racial violence, teaching
Posted: April 7, 2020
The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s prizes. We are only sorry that we could not honor them in person at the SHGAPE luncheon at the OAH this year. Congratulations to all our winners! SHGAPE President’s Book Prize For the best […]
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Posted: March 31, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Posters from the “Golden Age” of magic Dairy colonialism in Indian Country An exhibition of artwork by Native women artists Eugene V. Debs as the Bernie Sanders of the 1920s Podcast episode on anti-Mexican mob violence and […]
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Posted: March 2, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Local remembrance of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot On the success of front porch presidential campaigns A series of blog posts on postcards and the “visual city”: Photography, film, and postcards Postcards and U.S. cities “In the […]
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Tagged: Minding the GAPE
Posted: February 19, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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