A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Teaching NAACP history through newspapers
Southern California’s irrigation legacy
Learning about the American West with historical fiction
A Gilded Age murder mystery challenged presumptions of criminality
Teddy Roosevelt’s deadly trip to the Amazon
President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding
A look back on women in Boston’s Chinatown
Boxing legends Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson portrayed in a new graphic novel
The importance of carrier pigeons in WWI
Photographs of Easter hats throughout the decades
A new book on the Texas Rangers
Women were well represented in the millinery trade
Community rallies to preserve a rural Black schoolhouse
African American newspapers in Chronicling America
Sugar beets and a rare cross-cultural labor strike
The consequences of America’s Banana Republics
James Longstreet, U.S. Minister to Turkey
A Bostonian debutante in Paris
Misinterpreting the Comstock Act
Highlighting South Asian American history in Philadelphia
Gardens in the National Record of Historic Places
The long history of removing Black lawmakers from office
Images of Arab Americans throughout the decades
Donating books to the War Service Library for WWI soldiers
Failed attempts to curb child labor in the GAPE and today
Bat Masterson and the Battle of the Plaza
Eugene Debs used prison as a platform for his presidential campaign
Helen Gibson was Hollywood’s first professional stuntwoman
A history of pennyroyal as an abortive medication
Understanding citizenship and the post-emancipation South through Black Civil War widows
Documents in the National Archives shed light on Marcus Garvey’s incarceration
Tracing the line from Populism to American-style fascism in one family’s history
After serving in the United States Navy, Kym pursued her education and true passion of history. Kym taught as an adjunct for six years prior to continuing her education. She is currently a History PhD student and Fellow at the University of Montana, focusing on public health in the Progressive Era.