A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Segregation through the use of eminent domain
Treatments for WWI “shell shock” and connections to the present understanding of PTSD
When restaurants promoted ice cream to attract female customers
The heated 1912 Republican race pitted Roosevelt against Taft
A list of three-time presidential nominees
Confederate General James Longstreet’s controversial politics
The evolution of Riverside Indian School through the decades
“Americanization” campaigns and Mexican immigrant women in California
Puerto Rico’s history is missing from U.S. textbooks
Jim Crow segregation and Black beaches on the Chesapeake Bay
Early aviation photographs and prints of the Wright brothers
The first self-proclaimed drag queen in the United States
LGBTQ+ artists’ homes in the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Recollecting the Tulsa Race Massacre in family memory
Photographs initiated child labor reform in the early twentieth century
Employer organizing and the National Association of Manufacturers
Preservation of African American historic sites
Flag Day celebrations in the National Register of Historic Places
The Comstock Act, historic moral panics, and current abortion debates
Racialized children’s games after the Civil War
Army base renamed for Black WWI Medal of Honor awardee
Protecting amphibian habitats through the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Juneteenth recognizes that there is a “frailty to freedom”
A new book on the Black working class over the last 200 years
LGBTQ+ newspaper stories from the early twentieth century
Using Sanborn maps as teaching aids
A new historical fiction reimagines the life of Anna May Wong
The wife of OceanGate’s founder descended from Titanic victims
A look back on James Garfield’s presidency
Applying new technologies to study crime-scene dust in the late nineteenth century
Using a suffragist’s poetry to teach the history of women’s suffrage
Hookworm eradication efforts neglected the health of Black communities
Echoes of nineteenth-century cross-dressing bans in today’s anti-drag laws
After serving in the United States Navy, Kym pursued her education and true passion of history. Kym taught as an adjunct for six years prior to continuing her education. She is currently a History PhD student and Fellow at the University of Montana, focusing on public health in the Progressive Era.