A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
How the Johnstown Flood became a tourist attraction
A history of Black westerns and the cowboys they portray
Notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin
The capitalist history of reproductive labor
Explosion of the USS Maine and deception as a path to war
Search the index of JAH’s women’s history articles
Building a genealogical history through a lost photo album
About the Met’s new exhibit, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
The establishment of federal holidays began in 1870
“Happy Birthday to You” and the forgotten sisters behind the jingle
Underrepresentation of women in National Historic Landmarks
Universal basic income in the early twentieth century
Citrus trees in Library of Congress photographs
The infamous tale of Chicago May, “The Most Dangerous Woman in the World”
Grassroots banking politics and financial regulation in the early twentieth century
Sau Ung Loo Chan, pathbreaking lawyer and advocate for Chinese Americans
The turn-of-the-century adventures of author Richard Harding Davis
Apple TV+’s “Manhunt” and the search for John Wilkes Booth
Photographs of coal communities on display at the National Archives
Baseball snapshots in the Library of Congress
How corporations became legal “persons”
California Gold Rush heiress Louise Arner Boyd’s adventures to the Arctic
Last bloom for 158 cherry blossom trees in D.C.
The 1927 competition to be the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic
A history of Irish Americans through the centuries
Remembering prominent Ojibwe lawyer and suffragist, Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Starting in the 1920s, debutantes on horseback carried messages for the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky
Illinois’s Dixon Bridge disaster and other bridge collapses
Restoration updates on endangered historic locations
The Lost Cause in Northern rhetoric
Cover Image
Girls’ basketball team, March 1926. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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.