A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
How Lewis Hine’s photographs helped lead to the first child labor laws
“Kittintypes”: feline tintype portraits from the Daniel Carter Beard Collection
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast interviews authors of a forum on Anthony Comstock and the legacy of the Comstock laws
After surviving an assassination attempt, Theodore Roosevelt still delivered his speech—what newly discovered documents reveal about how he wanted the incident to shape his legacy
The Union Pacific Railroad and corporate-state collusion in Greater Reconstruction
Using primary sources from the National Women’s Trade Union League in the classroom
Tracking down the last surviving veterans of the American Revolution in the 1860s
Examining the cartoon production process through the comic strips in the Library of Congress collections
Coming to the “Blue Humanities” through an environmental history of the Gulf of Mexico
How did Philadelphia’s 1926 Sesquicentennial International Exposition become the nation’s “Greatest Flop”?
A century and a half of shifting interpretations of George Armstrong Custer in historical analysis and popular culture
Wooden animals, kewpie dolls, and other “toy stories” from National Trust Historic Sites
Bountiful images of summer produce in the Library of Congress collections
Why colonial administrators used vagrancy laws to police same-sex relations in the American Philippines
150 years later, descendants of 19 tribal nations who defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn gather to commemorate that victory
The life and activism of Frances Kellor, the driving force behind Americanization Day—a Progressive-Era holiday held to encourage assimilation and promote acceptance of immigrants
In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the 150-year-old constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship
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.