A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
What the current president loves about former President William McKinley
Herbert O. Yardley and his tell-all book on the Cipher Bureau, a covert government agency that operated between 1919 and 1929
Jevons Paradox in the age of AI: why the tech industry is talking about a 160-year-old economics concept
Breaking down the decimal filing system used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs field jurisdictions
Wong Kim Ark’s Supreme Court victory in 1898 affirmed the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship
Coercive use of tariffs to annex territory, exert control over foreign states, and restrict immigration in the 1890s and early 1900s
An exhibit of Freedmen’s Bureau marriage records
The tallest veteran of the Civil War?
Bank buildings in the National Register of Historic Places
Annotating Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s “Lynch Law in America”
WAPUSH: Creating an Advanced Placement Women’s History course
A new edition of Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cookbook, the oldest known published cookbook by a Black American woman
Did the McKinley tariffs protect “infant industries”?
In the Gilded Age, a fascination with destruction attended the fascination with wealth
The origins of Black financial institutions
Searching for family members separated by slavery after the Civil War
Teaching Indigenous Montaukett arts in a historic house built in 1884
Department of State letters of application and recommendation for public office are now available online
Educator and Black feminist activist Dr. Anna Julia Cooper
Laura Crossley is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the SHGAPE Blog. She is a history PhD candidate at George Mason University, specializing 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.