A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
Form and structure: finding grids in prints and photographs at the Library of Congress
Colleen O’Neill appears on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast to discuss how Native workers turned wage labor into a vocabulary for asserting sovereignty, from Carlisle’s outing system through the era of Indian gaming
Tracing the Oneida Football Club, the first organized football club in America, in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Writing a song inspired by a fourteen-year-old Scranton factory worker’s 1911 letter to the governor of Texas requesting to “correspond with a cowboy”
The writings of Mary Church Terrell reveal how her infertility journey shaped her activism and motherhood, while providing a lens on Black women’s reproductive experiences in the nineteenth century
Countermapping dispossession in the Great Lakes: mapping the Homestead Act and reconstructing tribal land with treaty records
Impressions of the Eiffel Tower and more from a fourteen-year-old girl’s diaries during her family’s 1889 grand tour of Europe
Tracking the popularity of table tennis in pictures, since it was trademarked as Ping-Pong in the United States in 1901
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast discusses Andrew Wender Cohen’s new biography Gangster of New York: A Violent Life in Nineteenth Century America
A collection of presidential campaign buttons from every election since the 1896 contest between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan
Early-twentieth-century ballpark panoramas—because it wouldn’t be October without baseball
A close look at the 1865 pseudoscientific tract largely responsible for the modern revival of Flat Earth beliefs
John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s automobile-centered vision of nature tourism left a lasting impact on American parks and conservation policy
In honor of Halloween, field recordings of shipwreck and ghostly sea songs collected in Maine, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland
Primary sources and classroom exercises to get students thinking about Progressive-Era election reforms and how voting rights have changed over time
Unpacking the context and subtext of Greco-Roman and Egyptianizing art and architecture at American world’s fairs around the turn of the twentieth century
Peak into Harry Houdini’s 4,000-volume collection on magic, witchcraft, and spiritualism 100 years after his death
Evolving fashions: 250 years of U.S. Navy uniforms
Teaching the 1913 Woman’s Suffrage Procession with primary sources
The post-emancipation legacy of anti-literacy laws for enslaved people
Andrew Varsanyi is Assistant Professor of History and Director of History Education at the University of Central Oklahoma. His research and forthcoming book project center on Populism and cooperative capitalism on the Great Plains in the Gilded Age.