Posted: September 21, 2021
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Michael Patrick Cullinane September 21, 2021 During the first COVID lockdown, in April 2020, a query flashed across my computer screen as I scrolled through H-Net: “Can anyone recommend any podcasts devoted specifically to the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era?” As […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, Black history, critical race theory, eugenics, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, reproductive history, women's history
Posted: July 13, 2021
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Anya Jabour July 13, 2021 This is the first in a series of blog posts on women’s history and the long Progressive Era, honoring the legacy of the late Elisabeth Israels Perry. Perry served as SHGAPE President from 1998-2000 and had a long and […]
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Tagged: carceral state, Elisabeth Israels Perry, eugenics, history of medicine, Progressive Era, women's history
Posted: June 1, 2021
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Jill Frahm June 1, 2021 On March 18, 1907, an anonymous individual at the Fort Dodge, Iowa, city council meeting proposed an ordinance to tax all bachelors and spinsters residing in the town. The proposal, smuggled into a pile of legitimate business papers, required […]
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Tagged: eugenics, Progressive Era
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