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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 detective with “Average Jones” Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernandez discusses border policy and the Mexican Revolution of 1910 The policewomen of “Special Squad #2” and surveilling abortionists Wealth, privilege, and monopolizing water in the San Francisco Bay area Queen Lili’uokal ..read more

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 of Congress’s National Jukebox Interracial cooperation in Progressive-Era tomato clubs A postcard tour of historic houses of worship Yellowstone renamed a peak First Peoples Mountain after historians uncovered that the prior namesake carried out an attack ..read more

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 Indigeneity Women wage workers, International Worker’s Day, and the development of labor rights What we can learn about the future of U.S. power and interest in Asia from the 1898 annexation of the Philippines Truth and lies around “My Old Kentuck ..read more

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.” ~Letter to Emma Goldman after the assassination of William McKinley   “In the United States, law is an imperishable thing, and for such people as would nullify our laws we have no place in our country. In a case such as this I can but inflict the maximum sentence which is permitted by our laws.” ~United States vs ..read more

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 is the annual fundraising event for the museum’s Costume Institute. What began as a modest dinner held outside of the museum in 1948, has turned in recent years into a mega publicity event that brings to the museum millions of dollars in donations. The Met Gala is perhaps the most important fashion event of the year, one that combi ..read more

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 of colonial control in the American West Lessons from Iowa history in the Indigenous Land Back movement Records from Arctic and Antarctic expeditions in the National Archives A new machine at the New York Public Library lets us listen to mystery recordings not heard in 100 years Exp ..read more

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 at the Library of Congress Race and gender at the circus A historical examination of philanthropy in HBO’s The Gilded Age Black internationalism challenging hemispheric Jim Crow “Female gentlemen” and WWI The fight to save historic ..read more

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 who have long been immersed in this pivotal period, we were excited to learn of the lavishly produced HBO series The Gilded Age. With the exception of the fabulously successful feature film Titanic in 1997, ours is a historical period that is often overlooked in popular culture. So we were delighted when T ..read more

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 After Robert E. Lee surrendered, the federal government refused to demobilize the United States Colored Troops, prolonging the service of Black soldiers The story of a short-lived all-Native American NFL team In 1919, a mob tarred and feathered brother ..read more