SHGAPE Blog

Field Notes: Liz Ferry and the Driehaus Museum

June 1, 2026

Field Notes: Liz Ferry and the Driehaus Museum

By Emily Parrow

Located in Chicago, the Driehaus Museum engages guests through architecture, art, and design within the 1883 Nickerson Mansion and the 1926 Murphy Auditorium. In this installment of “Field Notes,” Guest Services Coordinator Liz Ferry shares how the Museum’s rich interpretational scope, talented staff, and growing network of institutional connections help preserve these truly unique spaces and tailor the guest experience for maximum engagement. Driehaus Museum Executive Director Lisa Key will join other museum leaders on June 6 for the Closing Plenary of the SHGAPE Conference.

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.