A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.

The Klu Klux Klan trials of 1871-1872, the rhetoric of persecution, and the politics of presidential pardons

Lessons from Theodore Roosevelt’s failed government efficiency commission

Considering the legacy of Grant’s Ku Klux Klan pardons

How white Americans used dinosaur fossils to redefine who was truly “American”

Birthright citizenship was tested—and upheld—in United States v. Wong Kim Ark

Immigrants have long been stigmatized using the language of contagion

Test your White House history knowledge with a quiz

The Library of Congress has launched a professional development module on copyright and primary sources

Wall calendars in historical photos

Hyperloop technology and 200 years of overhype and failure

The life of Matthew Henson, African American Arctic explorer

A place-based approach to teaching Civil War memory

Considering the legacy of the Black church through six historic sites

The history of gender-segregated public restrooms is a story of who gets to belong in public life

Reviving early-twentieth-century imperialist myths about the Panama Canal

Birthright citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment in historical perspective

When Woodrow Wilson upended the federal workforce over race

Greenland and the history of American expansion in the Arctic

Cases that demonstrate the breadth of rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment

Black women’s grassroots organizing before the Civil Rights Movement

The Department of Health and Human Services and the history of health regulations

Breaking down the myth that McKinley’s tariffs drove prosperity

Understanding dating conventions in the archives

Togo, the overlooked dog who helped deliver life-saving medicine to thousands of Nome children

President Garfield’s assassination and the dangers of politicizing the civil service

The long history of the anti-vaccine movement

Remembering the deadly sinking of the S.S. Pacific 150 years later

Teacher resources for Black History Month and teaching Black history year-round

The deadly quest to be the first to fly to the North Pole

Ketchup and the Pure Food Movement

Cover Image

Constructing the Panama Canal, 1913. Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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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.

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