SHGAPE Blog

Minding the GAPE – February 2026

March 4, 2026

Minding the GAPE – February 2026

By Andrew Varsanyi and 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 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 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.

Tribute to Lloyd Ambrosius

November 11, 2025

Tribute to Lloyd Ambrosius

By Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones

The following is a tribute to Lloyd Ambrosius (1941-2024) by Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones, who will be chairing the panel “Lloyd Ambrosius and His Historical Legacies” at the 2026 meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Philadelphia. The panel, solicited by SHGAPE, reflects upon and commemorates the tremendous accomplishments and broad impact of Lloyd Ambrosius, a leading expert on Woodrow Wilson and Wilsonian statecraft.