Photographing the afterlife of slavery, Industrial violence in Colorado, traveling women booksellers, cat-themed music recordings, an American library in Paris during WWI, the history of race in the c...

In the fourth installment of “Field Notes: Public History in the GAPE,” Marcus P. Smith shares how the Du Bois Freedom Center interprets the life of author, scholar, and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du ...

Do you want dedicated group writing time or need important feedback on works in progress? Join a SHGAPE-sponsored Writing Workshop Group! This program is ideal for all stages, whether you are a gradua...

In the third installment of “Field Notes: Public History in the GAPE,” Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator Leslie B. Jones speaks to her work at the Preservation Society of Newport County, al...

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum explores the art, architecture, and design of the late 19th-century with a focus on the Gilded Age. The Museum is located just steps from the Magnificent Mile within the...

Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraVincent DeSantis Book Prizefor the best first book published on United States in the period 1865-1920 The...

In the second installment of “Field Notes: Public History in the GAPE,” Historian Joshua Dubbert, with support from Communications and Marketing Manager Kristina Smith, discusses the Rutherford B. Hay...

Birthright citizenship, 150 years after the Battle of Little Bighorn, the last veterans of the American Revolution, Frances Kellor and Americanization Day, cat tintypes, “Blue Humanities,” and much mo...

The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is delighted to host its first stand-alone conference, June 4-6, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference’s primary venue is the Schr...

Carter G. Woodson and the origins of Black History Month 100 years ago, Olympics pin trading, valentines for your enemies, love letters in the stacks, preserving Ellis Island Hospital, animal rights d...

General strikes in U.S. history, the evolution of the driver's license, patent medicine and medical misogyny, Reconstruction and Black countermemory, visualizing labor history in Minneapolis, and much...

Research Grant Funding Opportunity: SHGAPE Research Grant The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era  (SHGAPE) announces a grant of up to $1,500 to be awarded to a single recipie...

Fishel-Calhoun Article Prize The Fishel-Calhoun Article Prize is awarded every two years for the best article dealing with any aspect of United States history between 1865 and 1917. The prize is open ...

Presidents’ Book Prize The Presidents’ Book Prize is awarded in even-numbered years for the best book treating any aspect of United States history in the period 1865-1920s. It must be the author’s sec...

"Filmitis" in the early days of cinema, Christmas recipes from the Gilded Age, suffrage bake sales, the assassination of James A. Garfield and the American news cycle, the origins of New Year's resolu...

The following is a tribute to Lloyd Ambrosius (1941-2024) by Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones, who will be chairing the panel "Lloyd Ambrosius and His Historical Legacies" at the 2026 meeting of the Organiz...

Ghost stories from historic sites, creepy clowns, murder ballads, asylums and conservatorship, the New Lost Cause, the origins of off-year gubernatorial elections, and much more.

Historians of the Gilded Age are certainly familiar with the nefarious deeds of the evangelical “vice-hunter,” Anthony Comstock, but they may not know the story of Ida Craddock, a sex educator, schola...

The Society for the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) invites applications for a Content Editor for the SHGAPE Blog (https://blog.shgape.org/). The Content Editor will be responsible for generating posts for the site, typically on a weekly basis. These contributions might include short, standardized interviews with authors of new books on GAPE topics, articles in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, or new digital projects, along with promotion of the Society’s activities. The Content Editor will also have an opportunity to develop their own ideas for blog posts.

Bowling and women's rights, public history at the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, playing with fire in turn-of-the-century New York City, the long history of political violence in the U.S., the return...

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Podcast Episode · The Gilded Age and Progressive Era · 09/24/2025 · 1h

Spun-glass fabrics, Robert La Follette, convict labor in Florida's swamps, dying before germ theory, the "pansy craze," the legacy of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" 100 years later, and much more.

Research Grant Funding Opportunity: SHGAPE Research Grant The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era  (SHGAPE) announces a grant of up to $1,500 to be awarded to a single recipie...

Fishel-Calhoun Article Prize The Fishel-Calhoun Article Prize is awarded every two years for the best article dealing with any aspect of United States history between 1865 and 1917. The prize is open ...

Presidents’ Book Prize The Presidents’ Book Prize is awarded in even-numbered years for the best book treating any aspect of United States history in the period 1865-1920s. It must be the author’s sec...

Call for Papers The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is delighted to host its first stand-alone conference, June 4-6, 2026, at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. We we...

Call for Papers The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is delighted to host its first stand-alone conference, June 4-6, 2026, at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois. We we...

Juneteenth historic sites, “female husbands,” a ghost fleet in the Potomac, the “convict clause” and the Panama Canal, the 19th-century origins of criminalizing abortion, a brief history of miasma the...

with Michael Patrick Cullinane

"Wellness farms" and the eugenic history of confining young people with disability, how the U.S.-Canada border was shaped, parallels between the SAVE Act and the 1907 Expatriation Act, the real histor...

Tariffs and the income tax in historical perspective, the origins of the White House Easter Egg Roll, HBCU marching bands, epidemics and disability, primary sources from mass persuasion campaigns, why...