A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
The long history of Americans demanding debt relief
How the 1918 pandemic changed the science of viruses
Not all women wanted suffrage
Louis Armstrong’s archives have a new home
Dvorak’s radical “New World Symphony”
Civil War veterans struggled with opioid dependency
The history of racialized violence in the Memphis police force
Podcast episode on the evolution of America’s political parties
Major League Baseball’s new rules are part of the Negro National League’s legacy
Though the Tulsa Massacre lawsuit was dismissed, descendants will continue to fight
The racism of the West’s system of water rights is under scrutiny
Newly digitized Department of the State central files are available through the National Archives
A medical history of attempts to cure addiction
Seeing double with a collection of double exposure photographs
The Hollywood sign turns 100 years old
An early-twentieth-century crime novelist died on the Titanic
How to use digitized newspapers as a teaching tool
Icebox cakes rose to popularity in the 1920s
Susan B. Anthony’s recollection of meeting Harriet Tubman
Painting the environmental costs of industrialization in turn-of-the-century New York City
Updating historic houses of worship
Entrepreneurial rivalries in the history of Kentucky cave tourism
Complaints over too many women on college campuses have circulated for centuries
Retrieving the history of Manhattan’s vanished Syrian quarter, settled by immigrants in the late 1800s
After serving in the United States Navy, Kym pursued her education and true passion of history. Kym taught as an adjunct for six years prior to continuing her education. She is currently a History PhD student and Fellow at the University of Montana, focusing on public health in the Progressive Era.