A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Humorous stereographs for April Fools’ Day
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast interviews Marc J. Dunkelman on his new book, Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It Back
Teaching poetry and WWI history with the Stars and Stripes military newspaper
New primary source set on Progressive-Era reforms from the Library of Congress
View footage from before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to mark the 120th anniversary
The Industrial Workers of the World and the golden age of soapbox oratory
Reconstruction scholarship in the current court battle over birthright citizenship
Visualizing pedestrianism, the competitive sport of walking
A narrative history of the corrupt and violent boomtown of Borger, Texas
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast features a recording of a panel on Indigenous centenarians and gender in California
Anxiety over teenagers and urbanization in the 1920s
George Templeton Strong’s lengthy diaries provide an immersive glimpse of life in 1860s New York
Gendered tensions in the Bintel Brief, an early-twentieth-century advice column for Jewish immigrants
An illuminating look at images of lampposts in the Library of Congress collections
Cover Image
Sacramento Street after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Arnold Genthe. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Laura Crossley is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the SHGAPE Blog. She received her PhD in history from George Mason University, specializing in Indigenous histories and digital history. Her research examines how political debates over land, statehood, and Native sovereignty in the American West played out at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.