A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Book review examining the racialization of infanticide throughout the nineteenth century
Mina Miller Edison, the “home executive”
A discussion on Tuskegee Institute and the contradictions of Black history
Edith Galt Wilson, the “first woman president”
Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar helped spark the Harlem Renaissance
Nineteenth-century activist Harriet Jacobs fought against racial and sexual violence
Preserving places where women made history
Eugenics, the IQ test, and the legacy of disability discrimination
Teaching scientific literacy through the history of pseudoscience
Zora Neale Hurston and the Harlem Renaissance
Historical perspective on mental health and involuntary hospitalization in New York City
Hollywood themes in the National Register of Historic Places
Leonora Barry, champion of women workers
The urban history of mice and rats
Scientific unknowns, risk aversion, and the history of regulations and restrictions in pregnancy and motherhood
Using silent films as a teaching tool
Anticolonialism activism led to South Asian immigration restrictions
The racialized lore of “Railroad Bill”
Exploring Margaret Sanger’s divisive legacy
Puerto Rican migration and labor movements in the early twentieth century
Madame Restell defied anti-abortion laws for over forty years
When chapel cars traveled throughout the United States bringing the gospel to the masses
Utility Patent Drawings of beehives and beekeeper apparel
The Mississippi Carroll County Courthouse Massacre of 1886
Honoring the legacy of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross
Wong Kim Ark’s struggle for birthright citizenship
H-SHGAPE review of Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad
New Library of Congress digital collection on early Major League Baseball publications
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.