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JGAPE Best Article Prize

JGAPE Best Article Prize

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Best Article Prize is awarded in even numbered years to the author of the best article published in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era during the two years preceding the year of the award.

Winners of this prize are honored at the annual SHGAPE luncheon and will receive a certificate and an honorarium.

PAST AWARDEES

2022 – Kyle Williams, “Roosevelt’s Populism: The Kansas Oil War of 1905 and the Making of Corporate Capitalism” 19 (January 2020): 96-121.

2020 – Alana Toulin, “‘Old Methods Not Up to New Ways’: The Strategic Use of Advertising in the Fight for Pure Food After 1906,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 18 (October 2019): 461-479.

2020 – Honorable Mention – Robert Bland, “A Grim Memorial of Its Thorough Work of Devastation and Desolation: Race and Memory in the Aftermath of the 1893 Sea Island Storm,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17 (April 2018): 297-316.

2018 – Jamie L. Pietruska, “Hurricanes, Crops, and Capital: The Meteorological Infrastructure of American Empire in the West Indies,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 15 (October 2016): 418-445.

2016 – Paul Kramer, “Imperial Openings: Civilization, Exemption, and the Geopolitics of Mobility in the History of Chinese Exclusion,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 14 (July 2015): 317-347.

2014 – Amy Louise Wood, “‘Killing the Elephant’: Murderous Beasts and the Thrill of Retribution, 1885–1930,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 11 (July 2012): 405-444.

2012 – Jonathan Zimmerman, “Simplified Spelling and the Cult of Efficiency in the ‘Progressiv’ Era,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 9 (July 2010): 365-394.

2010 – Julia F. Irwin, “Nation Building and Rebuilding: The American Red Cross in Italy During the Great War,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 8 (July 2009): 407-439.

2008 – Gregory Michael Dorr, “Defective or Disabled? Race, Medicine, and Eugenics in Progressive Era Virginia and Alabama,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5 (October 2006): 359-392.

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