Posted: September 10, 2018
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. In October 1903, the Weather Forecast Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, printed a testimonial from the editor of the St. Paul Dispatch endorsing the company’s predictions as “an unqualified success” and the newspaper’s most popular feature.[1] The Dispatch, which claimed to be the only newspaper west […]
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Tagged: environmental history, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, weather
Posted: August 8, 2018
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by J. Martin Vest I spent early 2017 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts while researching the final chapters of my dissertation, “Vox Machinae: Phonographs and the Birth of Sonic Modernity, 1877-1930.” Every morning, I rode the train in from Queens, emerging from […]
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Tagged: archives, material culture, Progressive Era, recorded sound, technology
Posted: July 18, 2018
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Donald Thomas Hickey Historians measure change over time in many different ways. When examining the cultural history of the American Civil War Era, for example, analysis of popular literature from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s incendiary Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) to Jefferson Davis’ turgid The Rise and […]
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Tagged: Civil War, Gilded Age, literature, Reconstruction
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