Posted: May 31, 2022
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Kollin Fields May 31, 2022 “…I tell you that I hate your laws [and] your ‘order,’ for I know but one ‘order’—it is the highest potency of order—Anarchy.” ~Emma Goldman, 1893 “Murderous Emma Goldman, will burn in hell-fire for your treachery to our country.” […]
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Tagged: anarchism, biography, economic history, immigration, labor, political history, Progressive Era, socialism, 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: October 26, 2021
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Melissa R. Klapper October 26, 2021 This is part of 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: Elisabeth Israels Perry, Jewish history, labor, Long Progressive Era, political history, Progressive Era, women's history
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: March 20, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Stephen Leccese “What a scoundrel!” my mom exclaimed as I told her the following story. This is not a typical reaction when I talk about my work–my research on economic theory and policy is not exactly a scandal-ridden field for non-historians. So when I came […]
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Tagged: gender, labor, legal history, Progressive Era
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