SHGAPE Blog

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

Bowling and women’s rights, public history at the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, playing with fire in turn-of-the-century New York City, the long history of political violence in the U.S., the return of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast, and much more

Spun-glass fabrics, Robert La Follette, convict labor in Florida’s swamps, dying before germ theory, the “pansy craze,” the legacy of the Scopes “Monkey Trial” 100 years later, and much more.

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.

“Wellness farms” and the eugenic history of confining young people with disability, how the U.S.-Canada border was shaped, parallels between the SAVE Act and the 1907 Expatriation Act, the real history behind the film “Sinners,” the historical significance of Pope Leo XIV’s name choice, and much more.

Golden Age or new Gilded Age, the Statue of Liberty, a historian’s family history, pedestrianism and politics, documenting Black dance history, the Teddy Bear’s failed possum rival, and much more.

The life of Black feminist activist Dr. Anna Julia Cooper, a covert government agency in the Progressive Era, coercive tariffs under McKinley, marriage records of the Freedmen’s Bureau, the origins of Black financial institutions, and much more.