The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is delighted to host its first stand-alone conference, June 4-6, 2026, at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. We welcome anyone interested in US history from Reconstruction through the 1920s, including scholars from a range of fields, public historians, archivists, and teachers, to come, meet, and exchange ideas.
Minding the GAPE – June 2025
Juneteenth historic sites, “female husbands,” a ghost fleet in the Potomac, the “convict clause” and the Panama Canal, the 19th-century origins of criminalizing abortion, a brief history of miasma theory, “human zoos,” and much more.