Tagged: Minding the GAPE
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 lynching along the Texas-Mexico border
Recovering the story of Thomas McKeller, John Singer Sargent’s secret muse
On Gender, tuberculosis, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Rethinking the “nation of immigrants” narrative in public history
Podcast episode on what we can learn from past pandemics
The Blues as an intellectual resource on environmental destruction and environmental justice
Fact or fiction in Netflix’s adaptation of the life of Madam C. J. Walker
When nuns stepped in as nurses during the 1918 pandemic
The history of social distancing in fashion
Historical perspective on epidemics in Hawaii and shutting down the islands
Public health and discrimination against Asian Americans
The suffragist who campaigned for historic preservation in Charleston
Looking at an unratified constitutional amendment proposed in the Progressive Era to regulate child labor
Humor during the 1889-92 flu and COVID-19
Queering the mythology of Emiliano Zapata
Esther Pohl, the pioneering health commissioner who saved Portland from a 1907 plague outbreak
Book review on ballparks and the built environment
On “the original new woman,” Mary Walker: physician, suffragist, radical
Lessons from the 1918 influenza pandemic
Cover image: Spring by J. Mazzanovich, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, 1888, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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