A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
A new installation from the Chicago History Museum highlights the city’s role as the birthplace of modern safety science
How the women’s suffrage movement drew inspiration from the Declaration of Independence, from the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments to protesting at the 1876 Centennial Exposition
Marble games captured in early-twentieth-century photographs
State policing of crossdressing in turn-of-the-century New York
Route 66 turns 100 this year
“Rabbitt” Harrison Turner: tracing one freedman’s story reveals how digital scholarly editing can facilitate meaningful engagement with archival materials
Complicating the “lone inventor” myth of Bell’s telephone debut at the 1876 Centennial Exposition
Celebrating National Lighthouse Day
Early uniforms of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the Coast Guard
Podcast episode on the continued debate over birthright citizenship and the Wong Kim Ark case
Women’s fashion at early-twentieth-century auto races
Stopping in Chicago during a road trip for America’s 250th, historian Beverly Gage considers parallels between the Gilded Age and today
Union Spy Elizabeth Van Lew and the real history behind Amazon Prime’s Civil War drama series The Gray House
Interview with the author of a new book on C. G. Hines’ 1905 photographic survey of New York City’s Broadway
Photographs from the 1925 retirement ceremony for D.C.’s last fire department horses
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast is back with an episode on magic lantern art, the dominant screen medium before Hollywood
Children’s birdhouse contests of the early twentieth century
Black feminist thought at the 1893 World’s Congress of Representative Women
Cover Image
The Outlet, Rocky River, Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1910-1920. Detroit Publishing Company, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Andrew Varsanyi is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His forthcoming dissertation explores transnational populism and agrarian political movements in North America, analyzing cross-border connections between U.S. and Canadian farmers. He has taught history at Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary.
Laura Crossley is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the SHGAPE Blog. She received her PhD in history from George Mason University, specializing in Indigenous histories and digital history. Her research examines how political debates over land, statehood, and Native sovereignty in the American West played out at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.