Tagged: Minding the GAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
How a surgeon’s quest to reconstruct the faces of WWI soldiers laid the groundwork for modern plastic surgery
The legacy of park designer Frederick Law Olmstead
An overview of the Comstock Laws and abortion regulation
Become a detective with “Average Jones”
Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernandez discusses border policy and the Mexican Revolution of 1910
The policewomen of “Special Squad #2” and surveilling abortionists
Wealth, privilege, and monopolizing water in the San Francisco Bay area
Queen Lili’uokalani’s struggle for self-sovereignty in Hawaii
The multicultural history of rodeo
How a seamstress paved the way to the first organ transplant surgery
Jim Thorpe and the 1912 Olympic Gold
Bringing together environmental history and the history of the Great Migration
Clashes between tribal rights and civil rights when tribal nations expelled their Black members
Preserving wedding cake, cocaine, and other oddities at the Library of Congress
Dr. Nancy C. Unger, SHGAPE President, on the moral panic of early-twentieth-century prostitution
Recent decision in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta removes protections for Native Americans upheld in an 1886 court case
Inns, hotels, and motels in the National Register of Historic Places
Reproductive rights and the transition to legal regulation of a woman’s body
Automobiles and the fight for pedestrian rights in the 1920s
Baseball as a form of employee welfarism
Podcast episode on Native American spirituality and non-Native interference from “spiritual hucksters”
The historical value of Monopoly as a board game
Cover Image: On the beach at Atlantic City, N.J., ca. 1900-1906. Detroit Publishing Company. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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