Jazz and crime syndicates, women’s gun ownership, endangered historic places, Native American poets, the commercialization of Halloween, and much more.
Minding the GAPE – September 2022
Ragtime music, Latinos in Hollywood, the Landlord’s Game, backlash against the Comstock Act, parental control versus academic freedom, loaning binoculars to the Navy, and much more.
Minding the GAPE – August 2022
Seances and women’s rights, baby contests and eugenics, exhibiting the history of Black cinema, the rise of picture postcards, and much more.
Minding the GAPE – July 2022
Policewomen surveilling abortionists, border policy and the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Queen Lili’uokalani’s struggle for self-sovereignty in Hawaii, the multicultural history of rodeo, and much more.
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.