SHGAPE Blog

Minding the GAPE – April 2026

May 4, 2026

Minding the GAPE – April 2026

By Dr. Laura Crossley

The 120th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, birthright citizenship and Reconstruction scholarship, the golden age of soapbox oratory, Indigenous centenarians in California, April Fools’ images, anxiety over teenage rebellion in the 1920s, and much more.

SHGAPE at the 2026 OAH

April 28, 2026

SHGAPE at the 2026 OAH

By Dr. James J. Connolly

In addition to holding the Council Business meeting and the Editorial Board meeting for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, SHGAPE organized several events at the Organization of American Historians annual conference (April 16-19).

Minding the GAPE – March 2026

April 2, 2026

Minding the GAPE – March 2026

By Andrew Varsanyi

Sources for local women’s history research, interviews with this year’s SHGAPE prize winners, the continuity of imperial myths and Latin American intervention, the origins of the bird conservation movement, visualizing the mood of the 1929 stock market crash, and much more.

2026 SHGAPE Conference: Interview with Conference Chair Amy Louise Wood

March 23, 2026

2026 SHGAPE Conference: Interview with Conference Chair Amy Louise Wood

By Dr. Chelsea Gibson

SHGAPE is holding its first standalone conference from June 4-6 in Chicago. We are pleased to present an interview with the conference committee chair, Dr. Amy Louise Wood, who shares context for the decision to hold the conference and provides further details on what attendees can expect. Registration for the conference is currently open on the main SHGAPE website.