SHGAPE Blog

2026 SHGAPE Conference: Interview with SHGAPE President Amy Louise Wood

March 23, 2026

2026 SHGAPE Conference: Interview with SHGAPE President 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 SHGAPE President 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.

Minding the GAPE – February 2026

March 4, 2026

Minding the GAPE – February 2026

By Andrew Varsanyi and Dr. Laura Crossley

Carter G. Woodson and the origins of Black History Month 100 years ago, Olympics pin trading, valentines for your enemies, love letters in the stacks, preserving Ellis Island Hospital, animal rights during Reconstruction, spiritualism and UFOs, the suffrage movement on college campuses, and much more.

Minding the GAPE – January 2026

February 3, 2026

Minding the GAPE – January 2026

By Dr. Laura Crossley and Andrew Varsanyi

General strikes in U.S. history, the evolution of the driver’s license, patent medicine and medical misogyny, Reconstruction and Black countermemory, visualizing labor history in Minneapolis, and much more.

Minding the GAPE – December 2025

January 6, 2026

Minding the GAPE – December 2025

By Dr. Laura Crossley and Andrew Varsanyi

“Filmitis” in the early days of cinema, Christmas recipes from the Gilded Age, suffrage bake sales, the assassination of James A. Garfield and the American news cycle, the origins of New Year’s resolutions, and much more.