A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Explore the apocalyptic mood of the 1929 stock market crash in the classroom with this striking lithograph
A new history of blackface in America traces the origins and legacies of amateur minstrel performances
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast covers the birth of the bird conservation movement
Conducting local women’s history research with Library of Congress sources
A visual tour through America’s grand movie palaces
Saving the Canada goose in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula: excerpt from a new history of bird conservation
Ready-to-use images for teaching and writing women’s history
Video tour inside Langston Hughes’s Harlem home and the restoration process
A budding American affordable housing reformer and her transformational experience with “municipal socialism” in turn-of-the-century Berlin
Richmond’s 1901-built Main Street Station and its place in American architecture, transit history, and public memory
The continuity of imperial myths and the afterlife of the Roosevelt administration’s 1902 military actions in Colombia
Conversations with this year’s SHGAPE prize winners on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast
How twentieth-century engineers transformed the shifting course of the Rio Grande into a fixed border
Separating history from fiction in a podcast episode on the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Vaudeville photographs and more: new finding aids from the Music Division of the Library of Congress
Point No Point Lighthouse at the site of a pivotal treaty for Native fishing rights
Polar ambition, a doomed hydrogen balloon, and the drama of exploration
Andrew Varsanyi is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His forthcoming dissertation explores transnational populism and agrarian political movements in North America, analyzing cross-border connections between U.S. and Canadian farmers. He has taught history at Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary.