Posted: April 13, 2021
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Cody Dodge Ewert April 13, 2021 In his annual report for 1906, A. C. Nelson, Utah’s state superintendent of public instruction, proclaimed that the Beehive State’s schools must teach patriotism. “It is in our public schools that our national unity is to be conserved,” […]
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Tagged: education, Progressive Era, religion, socialism
Posted: July 7, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Ann Reid July 7, 2020 This post is part of a series exploring the lived experience of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Read the first post by Coyote Shook here. Read the second post by Jeff Nichols here. Read the third post by Chelsea Chamberlain here. I had […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, history of medicine, military history, Progressive Era, World War I
Posted: June 23, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Chelsea Chamberlain June 23, 2020 This is the third post in our series exploring the lived experience of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Read the first post by Coyote Shook here. Read the second post by Jeff Nichols here. Between August 14 and August 19, 1908, […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, carceral state, history of medicine, Progressive Era
Posted: June 17, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Jeff Nichols June 17, 2020 This post was originally published by the Chicago Reader and is reprinted here with permission. This is the second post in our series on the 1918 influenza pandemic. Read the first post here. In 1918 in the northern suburban fringe […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, history of medicine, military history, Progressive Era, World War I
Posted: June 9, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. This is the text of the graphic essay “Flu in the Arctic” by Coyote Shook. Find the original post here and view the full PDF here. Title Panel: Flu in the Arctic: Influenza in Alaska, 1918 ~Coyote Shook~ [Black and white sketch drawing of a […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, graphic essay, history of medicine, Indigenous histories, Progressive Era
Posted: June 9, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Coyote Shook June 9, 2020 This graphic essay leads off a new series on the SHGAPE blog exploring the lived experience of Americans during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Also be sure to check out the list of further readings below. View the full PDF of […]
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Tagged: 1918 Pandemic, graphic essay, history of medicine, Indigenous histories, Progressive Era
Posted: May 5, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Ben Markham May 5, 2020 The islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John are surrounded by Puerto Rico—once a Spanish colony—and the British Virgin Islands. Between the early eighteenth century and the early twentieth, the three main islands, combined with smaller minor […]
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Tagged: global history, imperialism, Progressive Era, World War I
Posted: April 22, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Sara Harwood Working with three first-year students and two graduate students at Georgia State University, I oversaw the development of a self-guided walking tour that uses David Fort Godshalk’s Veiled Visions to describe the horrific events that occurred on Saturday, September 22nd, the first […]
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Tagged: digital history, Progressive Era, public history, racial violence, teaching
Posted: February 19, 2020
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Theresa Ventura Taal Volcano crowns an island in the middle of Lake Taal in Southern Luzon. Its wide-mouthed cone is filled with water, giving Taal the Ripley’s Believe It or Not distinction of containing the largest lake on an island in a lake that […]
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Tagged: disasters, environmental history, imperialism, Indigenous histories, Progressive Era
Posted: October 8, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Lizzie Evens On 10th August 1916, detective Frances Benzecry visited a young woman, Elizabeth Kessler, and her foster mother at their home in the Yorkville neighbourhood of New York’s upper east side. At that time, Kessler was embroiled in an abortion trial in which she […]
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Tagged: abortion, history of medicine, Progressive Era, women's history
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