A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web.
“Harlem Hellfighters” of WWI, a Black unit of the New York National Guard, receive Congressional Gold Medal
The current revival of Confederate names and iconography in historical context
Spiritualism lives on in a New York community founded as a spiritualist camp in 1879
In the 1880s, American newspapers portrayed immigrants as anarchists, positioning foreigners as enemies and smearing labor organizing
How are ghost towns administered?
The long history of political violence in the United States
Examining the Emancipation Proclamation and the Reconstruction Amendments as birthright citizenship comes under attack
Bowling and the advancement of women’s rights
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era podcast returns with Cathleen Cahill interviewing co-host Boyd Cothran on his recent book, The Voyage of the Edwin Fox
“Honest American History Shouldn’t Be Divisive”: lessons on the role of history in the classroom and community from New York City’s Tenement Museum
Developing public history programs for the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island
For America’s 250th birthday, a new “Reading Road Trip” video series from the Library of Congress and PBS explores the literary heritage of the United States
Turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York youth played with fire, confounding adult expectations that bonfires and fireworks serve civic functions
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.