SHGAPE Blog

Vampire-killing kits, log driving, urban disability history, presidential pets, Killers of the Flower Moon, 100 years of the jungle gym, “cough gum,” and much more.

Deadly artificial flowers, urban playgrounds, “domestic husbands,” ice cream parlor panics, horseless carriages, and much more.

Wildfires, Wild West shows, traveling circuses, brewing beer, beating heat waves, the lottery, and much more.

Anti-suffragists, racism in western water rights, opioid addiction among Civil War veterans, double exposure photographs, icebox cakes, Kentucky cave tourism, and much more.

Crime-scene dust, LGBTQ+ artists’ homes, the Black working class, hookworm eradication, Sanborn maps, ice cream on the menu, and much more.

Preserving Chinatowns, combatting food price-fixing, examining the roots of Memorial Day, mapping the Titanic shipwreck, attempting to protect migratory birds, and much more.

Easter hats, carrier pigeons, child labor laws, the Comstock Act, the long history of removing Black lawmakers from office, a Gilded Age murder mystery, and much more.

City rats, IQ tests, chapel cars, birthright citizenship, preserving women’s history sites, the racialization of infanticide, teaching with silent films, and much more.

Black History Month, homebrewing, Groundhog Day, academic freedom, oyster pirates, Black secret societies, and much more

Newly digitized Native American newspapers, competitive typesetting, Black Civil War widows, the debt ceiling and WWI war bonds, Chew Heong v. United States, remembering the Rosewood Massacre 100 years later, and much more.

Christmas patents, Arizona’s Cochise County, Jumbo the elephant, a globe-trotting cyclist, backlash against lodgers, rainbows, rainmakers, and much more.

Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month, elections history, “Christmas creep,” new research and resources on the Great Migration, porcelain dolls, the electric chair, and much more.