Posted: September 25, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton In 1909, T. Wah Hing was indicted for feticide. At that time, forty-year-old Hing had been practicing traditional Chinese medicine for more than two decades in a home and office on J Street, between Seventh and Eighth in Sacramento, that he […]
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Tagged: abortion, Asian American history, history of medicine, legal history, Progressive Era
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: June 18, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Dr. J. Martin Vest In my doctoral dissertation “Vox Machinae: Phonographs and the Birth of Sonic Modernity, 1877-1930,” I presented a cultural history of the early recording industry in close conversation with the so-called “New Materialisms.” Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS), phenomenological philosophy, […]
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Tagged: gender, Progressive Era, recorded sound, technology
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 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
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: January 29, 2019
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by Patrick Lacroix When the Payette family moved to northern New York some time around 1850, the mass migration of French Canadians to the United States was in its infancy.[1] This movement of people from the St. Lawrence River valley continued for the better part […]
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Tagged: Gilded Age, immigration, Progressive Era
Posted: September 10, 2018
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. In October 1903, the Weather Forecast Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, printed a testimonial from the editor of the St. Paul Dispatch endorsing the company’s predictions as “an unqualified success” and the newspaper’s most popular feature.[1] The Dispatch, which claimed to be the only newspaper west […]
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Tagged: environmental history, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, weather
Posted: August 8, 2018
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. by J. Martin Vest I spent early 2017 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts while researching the final chapters of my dissertation, “Vox Machinae: Phonographs and the Birth of Sonic Modernity, 1877-1930.” Every morning, I rode the train in from Queens, emerging from […]
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Tagged: archives, material culture, Progressive Era, recorded sound, technology
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