A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Florence Lowenstein Marshall and the Jewish Gilded Age
Inside the newly renovated Frick Museum mansion, built as the home of industrialist Henry Clay Frick
Extraction, disaster, and the booms and busts of migration in Galveston
New exhibition featuring the art of Progressive-Era painter Susan Watkins
In 1916, the alarmist discourse over “filmitis” pathologized female film fandom
Winter style through historical fashion prints
The long history of birthmarks and myths of maternal responsibility
Centuries of data from the human hair trade
Examining the origins of modern policing in New York City through the lens of race
Fundraising for women’s suffrage with bake sales and cookbooks
Recipes as historical evidence in the Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook
The Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection and 100 years of concerts from the Library of Congress
How a secret cipher helped enable the Klan to spread across the South
The history of the fur trade and conservation regulations in Alaska
Death by Lightning, the James A. Garfield miniseries, and its portrayal of Black Civil War veterans
Letters to Santa as seen through historical photographs
A history of envelope-related patents
Louisa May Alcott’s forgotten Christmas story
The assassination of James A. Garfield laid the groundwork for the American news cycle
Looking to history to find a way out of the New Gilded Age
A look back at cookbooks digitized by the Library of Congress in 2025
Portrayals of Scrooge in Library of Congress collections
Tracing the modern tradition of New Year’s resolutions to the early twentieth century
Laura Crossley is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the SHGAPE Blog. She received her PhD in history from George Mason University, where she specialized in digital history and Indigenous histories. Her dissertation examines how political debates over land, statehood, and Native sovereignty in the American West played out at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Andrew Varsanyi is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His forthcoming dissertation explores transnational populism and agrarian political movements in North America, analyzing cross-border connections between U.S. and Canadian farmers. He has taught history at Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary.