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Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era - SHGAPE
As Americans–both civilians and veterans–worked to determine the meanings of identity for blind veterans of World War I, they bound cultural constructs of blindness to all the emotions and contingencies of mobilizing and fighting the… Read More
Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier - SHGAPE
Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent explores the history of the Gilded Age, using three people as its guide. Robert Ray Hamilton was a state lawmaker from New York and the great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton. John Dudley Sargent came from a long… Read More
The Sweet Life: Julius LeBlanc Stewart and Painting the Belle Époque - SHGAPE
A fresh exploration of the life and work of American expatriate artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855-1919), whose depictions of expat high society in Paris won acclaim in Europe and the United States and still feature… Read More
Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage - SHGAPE
Playwright, composer, lyricist, director, producer, and star performer George M. Cohan (1878–1942) looms large in musical theater legend, remembered for tunes like “You’re a Grand Old Flag” and “Give My Regards to Broadway.” Cohan’s early… Read More
A Wonderful Career in Crime: Charles Cowlam’s Masquerades in the Civil War Era and the Gilded Age - SHGAPE
Charles Cowlam’s career as a convict, spy, detective, congressional candidate, adventurer, and con artist spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age. He is the only person known to have been pardoned by both Abraham Lincoln… Read More
Minding the GAPE - June 2022 - SHGAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Edith Keating, pioneering aerial photographer Preserving intellectual disability history at the Elwyn Archives and Museum Marines and the making of America’s empire The Civil War in the “Long” Age of Revolutions A dancing tour of the Library […]
Minding the GAPE - February 2022 - SHGAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Aileen Cole Stewart, one of the first African American nurses admitted to the Army Nurse Corps, who served during the 1918 influenza pandemic Underrepresentation of Black women in Chicago’s public statuary and the resistance to adding more […]
Reading Red Emma: A Critique of Liberal Democracy in America - SHGAPE
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Kollin Fields May 31, 2022 “…I tell you that I hate your laws [and] your ‘order,’ for I know but one ‘order’—it is the highest potency of order—Anarchy.” ~Emma Goldman, 1893 “Murderous Emma Goldman, will burn in hell-fire for your treachery to our country.” […]
Minding the GAPE - July 2022 - SHGAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. How a surgeon’s quest to reconstruct the faces of WWI soldiers laid the groundwork for modern plastic surgery The legacy of park designer Frederick Law Olmstead An overview of the Comstock Laws and abortion regulation Become a […]
Minding the Gape - May 2022 - SHGAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Recent anti-Asian American violence shows the need to teach more Asian American history How the Reconstruction amendments matter in the debate over abortion rights Facial reconstruction of wounded soldiers after WWI Introducing a blog series on urban […]
Minding the GAPE - January 2022 - SHGAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic for the omicron surge Journals from the only eyewitness to the deaths of both Lincoln and Garfield An interactive look at the 1,700 members of Congress who once enslaved Black people […]
Minding the GAPE - April 2022 - SHGAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Marking the 110th anniversary of the gift of 3,000 cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to Washington, D.C. Takeaways for the study of diplomatic history from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era White women as agents […]
HBO’s The Gilded Age: A Disappointingly One-Sided Depiction of a Complex Era - SHGAPE
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Nancy C. Unger and Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols March 29, 2022 This review contains small spoilers. Our co-edited collection, A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Wiley (Wiley Blackwell, 2017), will be released in an updated, paperback edition this spring. As scholars […]
The Met Gala Was Not the Fancy Dress Ball Historians Were Hoping For - SHGAPE
Read this post on the updated SHGAPE Blog website. By Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox May 12, 2022 Last Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City returned to its “First Monday at May” tradition, or as it is commonly known: the Met Gala. Drawing media attention and fashionistas from around the world, the Gala […]
Minding the GAPE - March 2022 - SHGAPE
A monthly roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era news articles and blog posts from around the web. Sitting Bull, Lakota sovereignty and land rights, and the establishment of Yellowstone National Park For its 150th anniversary, a look at Yellowstone’s legislative history The 110th anniversary of New Mexico statehood The Russian invasion of Ukraine: resources […]