A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Railroads and standardized time zones
The first woman governor was elected in Wyoming 100 years ago
A brief history of the long fight for Native American voting rights
Grover Cleveland was the first to serve non-consecutive presidential terms
Pedestrianism movement and the first spectator sports
The criminalization of midwifery
Mexican Chicago and patterns of immigrant settlement
Sharing the stories of the first Native American women lawyers and judges
The 1898 Wilmington Massacre: the only successful coup d’état in the United States
Legacies of the 1874 Freedmen’s Bank collapse
Army Bandmaster Will Vodery broke color barriers
Agricultural landscapes and Roman Catholic churches in Wisconsin’s “Holyland”
Search the Senate Journal on the Library of Congress
Preserving African American churches in the South
Aerial postcards in the visual archives
Exploring the Indian School Journal, produced by students at the Chilocco Indian School
Pedometers and surveillance in the late nineteenth century
Finding Chasy Sanks, a formerly enslaved woman, in the census records
Al Capone’s ties to greyhound racing
Suffragist Matilda Gage inspired the witches of the Wizard of Oz
The life’s work of photographer Doris Ulmann
“Catvertising” in the visual archives
The transcontinental railroad’s link to America’s first immigration restrictions
America’s first public crematorium was built in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Remembering Pablo Abeita, Governor of Isleta Pueblo
The legacy of Scott Joplin and the Maple Leaf Rag
Images to celebrate National Cake Day
Thanksgiving memories from a nineteenth-century childhood
Finding Thanksgiving themes in the National Register of Historic Places
Native American languages in the Library of Congress collections
Cover Image
Football team in position, 1915. Chilocco Indian School Glass Plate Negatives, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Archives at Fort Worth.
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.