A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Edith Keating, pioneering aerial photographer
Preserving intellectual disability history at the Elwyn Archives and Museum
Marines and the making of America’s empire
The Civil War in the “Long” Age of Revolutions
A dancing tour of the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox
Interracial cooperation in Progressive-Era tomato clubs
A postcard tour of historic houses of worship
Yellowstone renamed a peak First Peoples Mountain after historians uncovered that the prior namesake carried out an attack that killed more than 173 Native Americans
Recognizing the forgotten impact of Harvard’s first Black graduate
Photographs from Flag Day in the National Archives and the Library of Congress
The Black soldiers who biked across the American West in 1897
Considering “Nanook of the North,” 100 years later
What the flooding in Yellowstone means for the surrounding communities
Alex Haley’s Roots and the challenges and possibilities of African American genealogy
What came after the fleeting freedom of Juneteenth
One family’s story of an illegal abortion a century ago, featuring comments from SHGAPE Blog editor Dr. Lauren MacIvor Thompson
Juneteenth harbors a legacy of deception
Introducing a roundtable of posts bringing together western and southern history of the Civil War era
The bodies of the Titanic and how their identification and treatment was wrapped up in class
Announcing Dr. George Chauncey, author of Gay New York, as the Library of Congress’s 2022 Kluge Prize winner
Exploring an exhibition of women artists, from nineteenth-century domestic handcraft to contemporary artists
A hair curling machine and other early-twentieth-century beauty patents of Charles Nessler
Relying on inaccurate history to rescind Roe v. Wade
Reproductive rights have always been central to women’s citizenship
Parallels between Prohibition and the overturning of Roe v. Wade
The Reconstruction politics of Indian Territory’s allotment era
Documenting typhoid fever during the Spanish-American War
Fostering student analysis of newspaper poetry about the 1918 flu pandemic
Tracing connections between the Civil War and the federal response to the anti-Chinese movement
Train stations in the records of the National Register of Historic Places
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.