A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Summer camp scrapbooking and the Black struggle for full citizenship in the Progressive Era
Billy Possum: the Teddy Bear rival that flopped
Historian Martha S. Jones traces her family history in a new book
Considering parallels between the Gilded Age and today with historian Beverly Gage
Before our modern federal civil service, waste and corruption plagued the spoils system
Juliette Gordon Low’s birthplace and other historic properties tied to the Girl Scouts
Students wrestle with questions of historical memory through place-based learning at a Confederate cemetery
From the Comstock Act to Roosevelt’s “Square Deal,” the U.S. Postal Service has been under federal scrutiny before
Was America really at its wealthiest from 1870 to 1913? Interrogating tariffs, turmoil, and inequality in the Gilded Age
A new research guide from the Library of Congress on Black dancers and choreographers
Tariffs, political capitalism, and conspicuous consumption in America’s new Gilded Age
Send back the Statue of Liberty? The history and symbolism of the famous monument
New Library of Congress collections and digitized images ready for researchers
The Lost World: the groundbreaking dinosaur adventure film turns 100 this year
Richard White talks corruption, monopoly, and power in the Gilded Age
Gendered reimaginings of European wolf tales on the American frontier
America’s long history of deeming immigrants “good” or “bad”
Pedestrianism, the sport of competitive walking, found support in the temperance movement
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ulysses S. Grant, and other portrait subjects with pencils in hand
Women in the historical records of early aviation
Recovering the life of Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree
How the Children’s Bureau made the work of the federal government visible to Americans during the Progressive Era
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.