A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Black countermemory and Reconstruction’s “Lost Generation”
Looking back at past U.S. proposals to buy Greenland
Chicago sidewalks as a boundary between nature and civilization
A brief history of the driver’s license
On the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast, historian Daniel Wortel-London discusses his new book on New York City
Podcast episode on labor organizer Mother Jones
How the patent medicine industry exploited medical misogyny in marketing their addictive preparations
Inside the issues of Hardware Dealers’ Magazine
Citywide general strikes in American history
Reclaiming Black Boston through public history and community memory work
Subway photos in Library of Congress collections
Visualizing the history of labor organizing in Minneapolis through a collection of political buttons
Dr. Hilary N. Green discusses her recent book, Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War, on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast
Using ship ledger data to chart Toronto’s links to Great Lakes resource hinterlands
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.
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.