Tagged: Minding the GAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
#19SuffrageStories and animated stickers from the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and National Archives
Toys, memory, and the Lost Cause
Confronting colonialism in bird names
On Black Richmonders’ struggle against police brutality during Reconstruction
Review of an economic, social, and legal history of women’s sexual labor in Baltimore
The whaling ship Progress as a museum failure
A syllabus of anti-Black racism in medicine
Review of a history of Liberia, South Carolina, founded by freedpeople during Reconstruction
How the Nineteenth Amendment complicated the political status of women in Hawai’i
Dr. Martha S. Jones searches for her grandmother’s story of the Nineteenth Amendment
How the American West led the way for women’s voting rights
Roundtable on sacred space and post-emancipation society
On Black women’s struggle for the right to vote
Review of An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South
Women’s suffrage stories in the National Air and Space Museum Archives
Debunking 5 myths about the Nineteenth Amendment
A profile of suffragist Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
How racist ideas shaped Reconstruction
A new portal for rediscovering Black life during WWI in the National Archives
A profile of photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals
The Nineteenth Amendment did not grant suffrage to Puerto Rican women
The work of the women’s suffrage movement did not end in 1920
Five profiles of Black suffragists
A call to action for a nationwide demonstration of good Civil War history at public sites
A blog series on Black life in the Midwest to contextualize life in two pandemics
Voices of Native employees of the National Park Service
Dr. Kimberly Hamlin, Co-Guest Editor of the October 2020 special suffrage centennial issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, on age of consent laws and suffrage history
A brief history of Mason jars, just in time for canning season
How suffragists fought to redefine femininity
A profile of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt
Racism in medicine at St. Elizabeths Hospital
Cover Image: Catherine Flanagan (left) and Madeleine Watson (right) of the National Woman’s Party being arrested by police officer (center) as they picket with banners in front of the White House East Gate, August 1917, Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division.
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