A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Richard Morris Hunt, the architect of Gilded Age opulence
Racial ideology and the experiences of French Canadian immigrants in the New England logging industry
Now that Taylor Swift owns the rights to her masters, review this brief history of music copyright
How America’s second national park, Mackinac Island, lost its federal status
Steelworkers in the Homestead Strike of 1892 blocked paramilitary forces from gaining a foothold in the United States
American weddings through the centuries as captured by marriage licenses and other ephemera
Same-sex romance in the Civil War era
Learn about Juneteenth at these five historic sites
Classroom activity for examining persuasive techniques with WWI Liberty Bond posters
Flip through the history of the insurance industry in the pages of The Insurance News
The nineteenth-century origins of criminalizing abortion
New exhibit explores the lives of three Black families in post-emancipation Alabama
Carl Hagenbeck, inventor of modern zoos, first tested out his ideas by exhibiting Indigenous people in “human zoos”
Etta Haynie Maddox, suffragist and the first woman to practice law in Maryland
The life and career of William “Bill” Kennoch, a top counterfeit detective of the post-Civil War era
Two and a half months after Lee’s surrender, the final shots of the Civil War were fired in the Arctic
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay: south of D.C. sits a graveyard of more than 100 wooden ships dating to WWI
Brewing up research possibilities with issues of the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal from the early twentieth century
Why the Department of Education was created in the wake of the Civil War
“People Have Always Transed Gender”: tracing the concept of the “female husband” from the eighteenth century through the twentieth century
Later murdered by Nazis for being Jewish, Eve Adams was deported from the U.S. in 1927 for publishing a book titled Lesbian Love
Asked to identify “any signs or other information that are negative about past or living Americans,” visitors to National Parks provide other kinds of feedback instead
These characters in HBO’s The Gilded Age are based on real people
A database project recovering the stories of married women whose American citizenship was stripped by the Expatriation Act of 1907
While their right to vote was debated back home, 74 American women physicians and support staff were saving lives in wartime France
Serial killer H. H. Holmes and the history of self-representation in criminal court
A tiered approach to advocacy efforts for public historians
The Thirteenth Amendment’s “convict clause” and chain gangs in the Panama Canal Zone
A brief history of miasma theory, suddenly newsworthy as Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has disparaged the “ascendancy of germ theory”
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.