Minding the GAPE – July 2024

Rhubarb recipes, designing Times Square, presidential age concerns of the past, violence against elected officials in historical context, keeping cool before air conditioning, centuries of the “cat lady” trope, and much more.

SHGAPE Research Grant Winner Virtual Presentation

The SHGAPE Events Committee invites you to hear the winner of SHGAPE’s inaugural (2022) research grant award, Dr. John R. Legg, who will present a virtual talk on “Little Six and Medicine Bottle: a Reexamination of Dakota Mobility and US Army Retribution After the US-Dakota War.”

Call for Participation: Mark Twain House and Museum Essay Series

The Mark Twain House and Museum has just launched a new program called “It Happened in Your Town.” They are inviting Connecticut teachers, students, and historical societies to provide research on their local communities in the year 1874. The museum invites SHGAPE members to put this research in a broader context for the public through a series of short essays.

Minding the GAPE – June 2022

Reconstruction politics of Indian Territory’s allotment era, what came after the fleeting freedom of Juneteenth, one family’s story of an illegal abortion, flooding in Yellowstone, and much more.