Black feminist thought in 1893, marble games, magic lantern art, 100 years of Route 66, New York anti-disguise laws and crossdressing, the possibilities of digital scholarly editing, and much more.
Minding the GAPE – March 2026
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.
Minding the GAPE – February 2026
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
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
“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.
Minding the GAPE – October 2025
Ghost stories from historic sites, creepy clowns, murder ballads, asylums and conservatorship, the New Lost Cause, the origins of off-year gubernatorial elections, and much more.