Posted: May 12, 2022
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox May 12, 2022 Last Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City returned to its “First Monday at May” tradition, or as it is commonly known: the Met Gala. Drawing media attention and fashionistas from around the world, the Gala […]
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Tagged: art, current events, economic history, fashion, gender, Gilded Age, museums, women's history
Posted: March 29, 2022
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Nancy C. Unger and Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols March 29, 2022 This review contains small spoilers. Our co-edited collection, A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Wiley (Wiley Blackwell, 2017), will be released in an updated, paperback edition this spring. As scholars […]
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Tagged: Black history, economic history, gender, Gilded Age, immigration, labor, political history, racial violence, urban history
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: February 9, 2021
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Daniel Gifford February 9, 2021 Discovering Microhistory Although it was many years ago, I still vividly remember microhistory week in my graduate research and methods course. When employing microhistory, the historian uses a small event or story to illuminate much larger contexts and historical […]
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Tagged: Gilded Age, public history
Posted: November 5, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Keith McCall Emancipation introduced massive demographic shifts within the U.S. South, and with them came cultural, social, and political changes. These trends and transformations were driven by the hundreds of thousands of freedpeople who left their places of enslavement and their old neighborhoods to […]
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Tagged: Black history, Gilded Age, Reconstruction
Posted: September 11, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Dr. Kelly Marino With centennials in 2019 and 2020 approaching, scholars are working to present the suffrage movement and its legacy in new ways. To date, most studies focus on national or state leaders who directed major organizations or accomplished well-known achievements. They often overlook […]
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Tagged: biography, Gilded Age, labor, suffrage, women's history
Posted: June 26, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Dr. Wesley Bishop Jeffrey Ostler once stated that the contentious field of Populist studies was, “one of the bloodiest episodes in American historiography.” The historiographical debate over Populism is, to say the least, long and nuanced. Historians as different as Richard Hofstadter, Walter Nugent, Lawrence […]
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Tagged: Gilded Age, labor, populism, Progressive Era
Posted: May 24, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. Below we share an interview with our new SHGAPE president, Dr. Albert S. Broussard. Dr. Broussard is a professor of History at Texas A&M University, where he has taught since 1985. He will serve as SHGAPE president from 2019-2021. Could you tell us a little bit […]
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Tagged: Black history, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, SHGAPE news, urban history, western history
Posted: March 5, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Beau Driver Most historians have felt the thrill of discovery at some point while in the archives. There is a rush that comes with finding something new. For me, it has often felt as though I was suddenly taking an active role in the history […]
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Tagged: archives, Gilded Age, Progressive Era
Posted: February 19, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by William J. Hansard (Cover Image: This building in Troy, New York, has been plastered with posters advertising the Ringling Brothers circus, demonstrating the extremes to which circuses would go to stake their claim. Image courtesy of the Ringling Museum Archives. The author is indebted to the archives […]
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Tagged: circus, Gilded Age
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