New post on the SHGAPE Blog! Dr. Bruce W. Dearstyne provides a multifaceted look at progressive reform in New York to show how state-level actions often set the pace and template for later federal regulation blog.shgape.org/new-light-on-t… #Twitterstorians

Check out June's roundup of Gilded Age & Progressive Era blogs and articles from around the web! “Forty Acres and a Lie,” Nellie Bly, Coca-Cola & racism, a dangerous flying machine, new database for African American genealogy, historical cat photos, & more blog.shgape.org/minding-the-ga…

Check out July's roundup of Gilded Age and Progressive Era posts & articles from around the web! The latest Minding the GAPE includes historical perspectives on the Olympics, assassination attempts, keeping cool in the summer, and more: blog.shgape.org/minding-the-ga… #twitterstorians

Over the next several weeks, the SHGAPE Blog will be publishing a timely forum from an upcoming issue of @JournalGAPE on the history & legacy of Anthony Comstock & the #ComstockLaws. Read the intro here & look for a new post next week: blog.shgape.org/anthony-comsto… #twitterstorians

In the latest post in our #ComstockLaws forum, Andrew Wender Cohen considers Comstock’s campaign against vice a response to #Reconstruction, backed by wealthy patrons engaged in political fighting over issues incl. racial equality, taxation, & democracy blog.shgape.org/comstock-recon…

CFP: SAWH invites proposals for its triennial conference June 19-22, 2025, at Bethune-Cookman Univ. in Daytona Beach, FL. This year's theme is "Unspeakable Challenges." Proposals due Oct 1, full details here: thesawh.org/2025-triennial…

The #ComstockAct was first&foremost a law about obscenity & sexual purity, not a total abortion ban: @lmacthompson1 emphasizes this in a new forum post, exploring the “complicated medico-legal regime” revealed by the Act’s legislative & enforcement history blog.shgape.org/abortion-contr…

Want dedicated group #writing time or need important feedback on works in progress? Join a SHGAPE-sponsored Writing Workshop Group! Groups will include scholars of similar research area. Ideal for all career stages. Full details: networks.h-net.org/group/discussi… #Twitterstorians

Enforcement of the #ComstockAct depended on state-level “little #Comstock laws” & private anti-vice societies. Next in our #ComstockLaws forum, Magdalene Zier spotlights one understudied arm of this apparatus: Robert W. McAfee, the “Comstock of Chicago" blog.shgape.org/robert-w-mcafe…

The latest roundup of Gilded Age & Progressive Era content is here! In September's Minding the GAPE, read up on Anthony Comstock & Victoria Woodhull, religion & the economy, knickknacks & collectibles at historic sites, political cat postcards, & much more blog.shgape.org/minding-the-ga…

Next in the #ComstockLaws forum, Allison K. Lange explores the visual debates that drove Anthony Comstock's targeting of Victoria Woodhull, the 1st woman to run for US pres. To Comstock, her thoughts on gender&sexuality made her dangerous #twitterstorians blog.shgape.org/targeting-vict…

Next in our #ComstockLaws forum: the famous arrest of Madame Restell for selling contraceptives & abortifacients. Nicholas L. Syrett uses this case study to situate Anthony Comstock's opposition to abortion w/in his greater campaign against obscenity blog.shgape.org/anthony-comsto…

The final post in our #ComstockLaws forum is up! In addition to reading & assigning the posts in this series, instructors may want to bring the discussion into their classes w/ primary sources. Kimberly A. Hamlin introduces a few accessible & rich options: blog.shgape.org/understanding-…

CFP: Global GAPE special issue of @JournalGAPE-seeking essays that critically examine the period 1860-1920s by underscoring the int'l dimensions in the study of U.S. history & the US’s growing global worldview & connections. Submissions due 12/15. Details: networks.h-net.org/group/announce…

New post! David Macleod covers the politics of #inflation. In the 1910s, as today, the high #CostOfLiving defied ready remedy & pres. administrations faced the most criticism. Debates of the 1912 & 1920 elections are still key to understand this #election: blog.shgape.org/high-cost-of-l…

This #Election2024, read up on the history of elections, including the propaganda of 19thC ballots... or cozy up instead w/ a fun look at historical pillow covers. All in our latest roundup of GAPE blog posts & articles from around the web blog.shgape.org/minding-the-ga… #twitterstorians

November's roundup of Gilded Age & Progressive Era blog posts & articles is here! Read up on the fight for Native American voting rights, the suffragist who inspired the Wizard of Oz witches, "catvertising," Thanksgiving memories from the 1800s, & more blog.shgape.org/minding-the-ga…

Back from break with December's roundup of Gilded Age & Progressive Era blog posts & articles from around the web--a "farewell" post from our departing Minding the GAPE editor, Kym MacEwan blog.shgape.org/minding-the-ga…

New post! Editor Dr. Chelsea Gibson interviews Dr. Kenyon Zimmer about his digital archive of Red Scare deportees. A research/teaching tool for transnat'l radicalism & the long Prog. Era, it's also a case study for collaborative digital history projects blog.shgape.org/faces-of-the-f…

SHGAPE is hosting its first stand-alone conference June 4-6, 2026, at Loyola University in Chicago! We plan to offer seminars, workshops, roundtables, & traditional paper panels. Submit your proposal by October 1st! Full guidelines here: shgape.org/shgape-confere… #twitterstorians