Posted: June 30, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. A tribute to Gilded Age and Progressive Era historian Dr. John D. Buenker The history of protest and attacks on Confederate monuments On the state’s failure to protect Black Americans in 1919 and today Why the postal […]
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Posted: June 1, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. We are living in a Red Spring “Talking About Race” web portal released by Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture The history of racist policing in America A reading list on U.S. immigration and […]
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Posted: May 1, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. A trip down the rabbit hole of the etymological origin of the name “Triscuits” Looking at the 1918 flu through the lens of food history How past public health emergencies have changed the way we live Assimilation […]
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Posted: March 31, 2020
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 […]
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Posted: March 2, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Local remembrance of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot On the success of front porch presidential campaigns A series of blog posts on postcards and the “visual city”: Photography, film, and postcards Postcards and U.S. cities “In the […]
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Posted: January 31, 2020
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Podcast episode on the 19th amendment The “bone wars”: dinosaur fossils as commodity Dr. Albert Broussard, SHGAPE President, is quoted in this New York Times piece on history textbooks In Tennessee, rediscovering the first impeached president through […]
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Posted: December 31, 2019
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. On the “baby bust” of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries The history of recording and reproducing birdsong A new exhibit chronicling the experiences of African Americans before, during, and after WWI SHGAPE Blog Co-Editor-in-Chief Dr. Lauren MacIvor […]
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Posted: November 29, 2019
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. On W.E.B. Du Bois’ striking infographics How Jim Crow compounded the grief of Black mothers whose sons were killed in WWI Hunger: the battle that didn’t end with Armistice Day Why Art Nouveau failed to flourish in […]
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Posted: October 30, 2019
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Labor strikes are back A nineteenth-century ban on medical advertising hurt women doctors Alan Lessoff, one of the editors of the SHGAPE blog, reviews Benjamin Heber Johnson’s Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era […]
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Posted: September 30, 2019
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. On Black economic citizenship after Reconstruction Looking to Indigenous values to envision Hawaiian decolonization and self-determination What the postmortem life of executed mass murderer Anton Probst reveals about American medical history The long history of not having […]
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