Tagged: Minding the GAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
What the evolution of slang shows about how women lost status in saloons
The story of Joseph Rainey, the first Black member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Debunking the myth of Yellowstone as pristine wilderness
A brief history of peanut butter
Medicalizing and racializing Black military workers in the Age of Imperialism
The 1918 flu pandemic on the Reservation, as documented in the National Archives
Podcast episode on chaos in the Capitol and the election of 1876
A Confederate flag at the Capitol and the new Lost Cause
The deep roots of anti-democratic violence in the U.S.
Historians on why the assault on the Capitol was not really unprecedented
Looking to 1871 to address the attempted insurrection
The illusion of America’s well-functioning democracy
What Trump shares with the Lost Cause
Mobs of white citizens have long been commonplace
The origins of American policing and why the inaction of Capitol Police was by design
When Andrew Johnson refused to attend Grant’s inauguration
How Trump’s Lost Cause may endure
What his 2008 biography of Theodore Roosevelt reveals about Senator Josh Hawley and January 6th
The most scandalous film never shown in DC
Black women have long been important political organizers
Charles Curtis, the first Vice President of color
How one teacher challenged nativist attacks against immigration after WWI
On the history of convict leasing
Evatima Tardo: “the strangest woman in the world”
Eric Foner on what politicians mean by “unity” and “healing”
Vice President Harris’ pearls and the history of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Parallels between the attempted insurrection and lynchings a century ago
How the Civil War got its name
Senator Raphael Warnock and lessons from the era of Hiram Revels
The complicated legacy of the first Indigenous Vice President
When women ditched corsets for one-piece long underwear
Heather Cox Richardson on the historical significance of Biden’s inauguration
Vice President Harris and the history of women’s officeholding
Historians respond to the 1776 Report
The value of a National Museum of the American Latino
Historicizing childhood and how white Americans have weaponized the idea of girlhood
The roots of modern consumer culture at the start of the twentieth century
When Chinese restaurants didn’t look “Chinese”
A museum exhibition on the history of surfing in Hawaii
The history of African Americans in the White House
Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant on the pitfalls of reconciliation
The long history of Americans’ unease with vaccines
In the mid-19th century, the law was unclear if children were “persons”
White House dogs have long comforted anxious Americans
Cover Image: The procession through the Capitol rotunda from the Senate chamber during the second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, March 4, 1873. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, v. 36, March 15, 1873. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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