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Autonomy Through Allotment: Political Strategies of the Ottawa Tribe in Indian Territory, 1870–1892 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 David Dry
The late nineteenth-century policy of allotting tribal lands into individually owned tracts is appropriately interpreted as a destructive federal effort to expropriate Native land and eliminate tribal identities. The Ottawa Tribe in Indian Territory, however, had divergent objectives in supporting allotment. This article argues the Ottawa advocated for allotment and U.S. citizenship to escape intrusive
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The Long Red Summer on the Railroads: Labor, Race, and Exclusion in Appalachia Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Matthew C. O’Neal
This essay examines the relationship between race, work, and exclusion during the Long Red Summer of 1919. I focus on several “transportation towns” of railroad employees in Appalachia to argue for the combined importance of labor history and racial ideology in attempts to understand wartime violence. Academic and federal government investigations inform my analysis, as does the robust body of scholarship
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Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the “White Slave” Case That Changed America Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Nancy C. Unger
This article is based on the presidential address presented to the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era at the meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Los Angeles in 2023. Its focus is Maury Diggs and Drew Caminetti, two white men from Sacramento, California, charged with violating the Mann Act (known as the White Slave Trafficking Act) in 1913. The Gilded Age
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“The Indian Side of the Question”: Settling the Story of Potawatomi Removal in the Twentieth-Century Midwest Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Zada Ballew
In 1893, Simon Pokagon, a leader of the “unremoved” Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, published a birchbark pamphlet titled The Red Man’s Rebuke. This story condemned settlers for dispossessing Native peoples of their lands and removing them west of the Mississippi River in service of their “civilization.” Pokagon’s Rebuke remains one of the most cited texts in Native American history. But what happened
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Realtors Interpret History: The Intellectual Origins of Early National Real Estate Organizing Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Paige Glotzer
In 1891, when U.S. realtors attempted to establish their first national professional organization, the National Real Estate Association (NREA), they turned to history to provide a shared intellectual foundation to justify collective organization. Though the NREA was only in operation for a short period, the ways its members invoked history illuminate how key assumptions about race, property, and citizenship
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“An Army of Little Mothers”: Progressive Era Eugenic Maternalism and the Medicalization of Motherhood Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Jamie Marsella
This article explores the role of the Little Mothers’ Leagues in New York City, clubs created by public health authorities to educate working-class girls as young as eight years old who took care of their younger siblings while their parents worked. The Little Mothers’ Leagues served as an essential link between social reform and eugenic public health programming during the first two decades of the
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Kerosene Is King: Kerosene Consumers and the Antitrust Movement against Standard Oil, 1859–1911 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Minseok Jang
In the late nineteenth-century United States, kerosene became a universal illuminant for artificial lighting, providing its users with a shared material environment. While kerosene users employed the fluid not only for lighting but also for washing, cooking, and cleaning, they had to deal with the material’s risks, such as fires and explosions. With the help of chemists and domestic advisors, American
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Introduction: On Literature Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Elizabeth M. Sheehan
Literature and history as objects of study and fields of inquiry have shaped each other in profound if asymmetrical ways. This introduction provides a brief account of how these disciplines intersect in the GAPE and the contemporary era, emphasizing concerns with expertise and amateurism that also emerge in many of the articles in this special issue. Those concerns, in turn, relate to what the articles
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A Pint-Sized Public Sphere: Compensatory Colonialism in Literature by Elite Children During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Brian Rouleau
During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, thousands of middle-class youths published their own amateur newspapers. These periodicals were printed using the so-called toy (or “novelty”) press, a portable tabletop device that helped democratize word processing. Children often used their presses to compose miniature novels and short stories. They then shared their prose with a national community of fellow
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Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star as Counter-Narrative for American Indian History-Telling Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Sarah Ruffing Robbins
In 1911, Elaine Goodale Eastman, longtime editor of writing by her husband, Indigenous writer Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), published Yellow Star, a narrative for white family audiences. Both the Eastmans’ already-troubled marriage and their parenting of mixed-race children illuminate the text, as does their history of linked authorial experiences. Anticipating twenty-first-century battles over competing
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith’s Bestselling Introduction to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Nancy C. Unger
An analysis of Betty Smith’s bestselling coming-of-age novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn reveals how popular literature can serve as an important introduction to signature issues of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Industrialization, urbanization, and immigration are highlighted in the novel—as well as attendant problems including poverty, machine politics, child labor, and prejudice and discrimination
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“Like Home”: Gerrymandering the Physical Public Sphere in Female Journalist Narratives Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Hunter Plummer
The cultural figure of the female journalist most clearly embodies the opportunities given to, and the anxieties caused by, the period’s working women. As writers, they fought for rhetorical space in the pages of newspapers and periodicals, and as women, they faced social pressure to avoid the male-dominated physical public sphere or move within it under specific conditions. Even the increasing number
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Teaching GAPE History through Amateur Newspapers and Adolescent Storytelling Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Brian Rouleau
Beginning in 1867 with the invention of the miniature (or “hobby”) press, young people in the United States began to publish their own amateur newspapers. Within the pages of those publications, adolescents included news articles, editorials, short stories, serialized fiction, poetry, and jokes. The collective result of their literary efforts was referred to as Amateurdom, or “the ’Dom” for short.
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Teaching Charles Alexander Eastman’s “The North American Indian” in Dialogue with Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Sarah Ruffing Robbins
Charles Eastman’s “The North American Indian” address for the 1911 Universal Races Congress (URC) in London provides multiple pathways for teaching in a comparative context. One productive approach involves setting the lecture in dialogue with Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star, published in the same year. Another entails asking students to situate Charles Eastman’s talk in the context of the URC
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Walter Nugent and the Broadening of U.S. History Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 William Deverell, Nancy Unger, Donna Gabaccia, Alan Lessoff, Charles Postel, Annette Atkins
Former SHGAPE president Walter Nugent passed away in 2021. On April 1, 2023, historians gathered at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual meeting in Los Angeles, California, to remember him. William Deverell, Nancy Unger, Donna Gabaccia, Alan Lessoff, Charles Postel, and Annette Atkins spoke about Walter Nugent as a scholar, a colleague, a mentor, and a friend; then the audience joined
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Introduction: New Approaches to Music and Sound Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Rebecca Tinio McKenna, David Suisman
This introduction to the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era’s special issue, “New Approaches to Music and Sound,” provides a historical sketch of American music and the American soundscape at the turn of the twentieth century. It also offers a discussion of relevant historiography, taking stock of recent work in sound studies and its influence on research on music and sound of the period
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“The Best Songs Came from the Gutters”: Tin Pan Alley and the Birth of Manhattan Mass Culture Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Samuel E. Backer
In the early twentieth century, the publishers of Tin Pan Alley revolutionized American music. Focused on the dissemination of a constantly changing set of attention-grabbing songs, leading companies dramatically expanded the market for popular compositions, generating hits that sold millions of copies of sheet music to customers across the country. While publishers aimed at this continental audience
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“Speak the Language of Your Flag”: Speech, Language, and Oralism During the First World War Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Katherrine H. R. Healey
With the United States’ entrance into the First World War, linguistic and cultural cohesiveness became imperative, compelling everyone—from immigrants with foreign accents to people with speech problems and hearing loss—to “sound American” by fluently speaking the language of their flag.This article examines lip-reading, speech, and auricular training prescribed to deaf and hard-of-hearing children
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Hearing the Americas: Understanding the Early Recording Industry with Digital Tools Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Jessica Dauterive, Matthew B. Karush, Michael O’Malley
This article describes the methods and arguments of Hearing the Americas, a digital public history project that illuminates the history of popular music and the recording industry from 1890 to 1925. We argue that the use of digital tools allows the website to integrate sound directly into writing on music and thereby explicate a series of historical arguments. The article examines three arguments advanced
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“Speculative Imaginations”: Listening to 1889, Then and Now Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Carlene E. Stephens
In an examination of three cylinder recordings from 1889, this essay compares the context for their original production with the experience of hearing them again in 2019, thanks to IRENE, a twenty-first century suite of state-of-the-art techniques and equipment designed to recover sound from old recordings otherwise considered unplayable. This pairing offers an opportunity to examine how each period
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Histories with Sound: Using Noise and Music to Teach (and Research) the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Samuel E. Backer
In recent years, the history of sound has developed into a rich body of interdisciplinary scholarship. This article explores the benefits of considering sonic evidence alongside a host of other material; teaching and writing histories with—rather than of—sound. In the classroom, this kind of “history with sound” is particularly useful for its ability to cut across lines of scholarly inquiry. This makes
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From Talking Machines to Music Machines: The Early Years of Recorded Sound and Playback in Pictures and Audio Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Carlene E. Stephens
Between Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877 and World War I, inventors, entrepreneurs, performers, and listeners transformed the singular talking machines of the late 1870s to the ubiquitous music machines of the twentieth century. Through selected images, objects, and links to period sounds, this essay offers a chronological glimpse of interacting social, technical, and entrepreneurial
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Atlantic Crossings Revisited Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Robert McGreevey, Adam Hodges, Amy Kittelstrom, Noam Maggor
This roundtable reflects on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Daniel T. Rodgers’s Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard, 1998), a classic in our field.
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A Delayed Revenge: “Yellow Journalism” and the Long Quest for Cuba, 1851–1898 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Daniel J. Burge
Historians have long been intrigued by the role that the press played in McKinley’s decision to intervene in Cuba in 1898. Most, however, have focused their attention on the decade of the 1890s, ignoring the long history of interventionism aimed at Cuba. This essay uses the story of William L. Crittenden to explore the many instances where interventionists tried (and failed) to drum up support for
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Secure from the World’s Contagions: Settlement House Summer Camping in the Progressive Era Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Dustin Meier
Throughout the Progressive Era, settlement houses in the urban Northeast and Midwest operated robust summer camp programs for the children of their neighborhoods. Each summer, campers enjoyed two weeks of hiking, swimming, nature study, and relaxation. This article argues that summer camps exemplified the environmental agenda of settlement-house workers during the Progressive Era. Unlike smoke abatement
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International Arbitration and the Roots of Women’s Foreign Policy Activism Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Megan Threlkeld
At first glance, international arbitration—a legalistic method for the peaceful settlement of disputes among nations—may seem like a topic belonging only to the formal, male-dominated realms of diplomacy and international law. Most men in the late nineteenth century certainly thought so, and many historians since have treated it as such. But prominent women like May Wright Sewall and Belva Lockwood
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Sound Citizenship: Hearing and Speech Disabilities in World War I Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Evan P. Sullivan
This article discusses speech and hearing disabled Americans’ claims to citizenship during World War I, and the ways American policymakers sought to rehabilitate American soldiers treated in the U.S. Army Section of Defects of Hearing and Speech—or those classified after the Section’s closure as deaf, hard-of-hearing, or “speech defective.” Ultimately, I argue that one’s aural communication abilities
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“Building A Great Organization for War”: The Associational State and Woman’s War Work in North Carolina, 1917–1919 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Nathan K. Finney
The entry of the United States into the First World War and the integration of women into mobilization expanded women-run private initiatives and integrated their associational efforts into the war effort. This created greater visibility of women and children to state and federal governments. In the end, however, the increased attention and mobilization of private organizations by the state around
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“There Is Nothing So Sacred as Human Life”: Infanticide and the State in Maine, 1877–1917 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Mazie Hough
From 1877 to 1896, Maine courts sentenced six women accused of infanticide to imprisonment for life. This harsh punishment was in stark contrast to the more lenient punishments given infanticides elsewhere. A close look at these cases through court documents, newspaper accounts, pardon petitions, and attorney general reports suggests that the trials marked a shift in the justice system in Maine as
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–1918 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Benjamin J. Wetzel
The meaning of the Civil War, America’s most violent experience, continued to be debated well into the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The long shadow cast by David Blight’s influential Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001) has meant that debates about the impact and prevalence of reconciliationist rhetoric dominate the literature. This paper adds to a growing body of scholarship
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Still Searching: A Black Family’s Quest for Equality and Recognition during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Albert S. Broussard
Historians have correctly interpreted the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as periods in which African Americans faced unpreceded violence, a significant decline in franchise, and the loss of many civil rights. These years however, were far more complex when viewed from the vantage point of African American families who attempted to empower themselves through education, securing employment in white-collar
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“An Exhibit as Will Astonish the Civilized World”: Seeking Separate Statehood for Indian Territory at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Laura Crossley
Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Muscogee, and Seminole citizens employed the Indian Territory exhibits at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition to advance the separate statehood movement. Increasingly shut out of the formal political realm, they adopted creative measures to exert their political will, including participating in the world’s fair. Employing insights from settler-colonial theory and public
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Hemispheric Reconstructions: Post-Emancipation Social Movements and Capitalist Reaction in Colombia and the United States Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 James E. Sanders
As historians have begun to conceptualize the U.S. Civil War as a global event, so too must they consider Reconstruction as a political process that transcended national boundaries. The United States and Colombia both abolished slavery during civil wars; ex-slaves in both societies struggled for full citizenship and landholding, partially succeeding for a time; in both societies, a harsh reaction ripped
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New Directions in Political History Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer, Lisa M.F. Andersen, Nicolas Barreyre, Rebecca Edwards, Michael J. Lansing, Allan E.S. Lumba, Tara Y. White
This roundtable takes up old themes and new perspectives in the field of political history. Scholars engage with six questions across three main categories: the scope of the field, current debates, and teaching. The first two questions ask how we should think about political power and the boundaries of what constitute political history. The section on current debates interrogates the relationship between
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The Power of Racial Mapping: Ellsworth Huntington, Immigration, and Eugenics in the Progressive Era Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Colm Lavery
Racial mapping during the Progressive Era played into the political narratives of eugenic intervention and immigration restriction. This article argues that the racial cartographic work of the Yale geographer and prolific eugenicist Ellsworth Huntington was both developed within and contributed to this racist milieu. Huntington’s middle-class and educated upbringing, his familial history, and his expertise
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“The Great White Mother”: Harriet Maxwell Converse, the Indian Colony of New York City, and the Media, 1885–1903 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 John C. Winters
This article reveals the history of the unstudied “Indian Colony” of Gilded Age New York City through the life of its founder and governor, Harriet Maxwell Converse. Converse was a white woman adopted by the Senecas and a salvage ethnographer, a potent combination of Indigenous “authenticity” and scholarly authority that made her an object of fascination to white New Yorkers who read about her in extensive
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“A Simple Act of Justice”: The Pueblo Rejection of U.S. Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Lila M. Teeters
In January of 1920, the House of Representatives passed HR 288, also known as the Carter Bill, which would have made all American Indians born in the territorial United States citizens. While lauded by some as a “simple act of justice” to extend citizenship to America’s first peoples, many Native Americans protested the bill, which eventually led to its demise. In the press, the Pueblos led the protest
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Henry Adams’s Protean Views of the American Empire, 1890–1905 Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Ángel de Jesús Cortés
In the history of the Gilded Age and its geopolitics, Henry Adams has a reputation for being an imperialist. While not universally subscribed to by historians, this characterization has waxed sufficiently as to eclipse Adams’s more complex, even contradictory, record on the American Empire. The evidence I will marshal will not prove that Adams was actually an anti-imperialist, but it will reveal the
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Teaching Queer History in the GAPE Classroom Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Brian M. Trump
Digitization of archival materials has made it easier not only to analyze queer history during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, but also to include these sources in the classroom. For instructors interested in incorporating queer history into their classrooms, this piece highlights specific examples of these queer primary sources and what they reveal about the queer past. Focusing specifically on
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“Showing Up America”: Performing Race and Nation in Britain Before the First World War Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Lewis Defrates
This article examines American travel and performance in Britain in the decades prior to the First World War, arguing that the expression of nationality in this transatlantic context played a profound role in formulating both America’s dominant culture and a culture of opposition advanced by African American performers. It explores this “oppositional” culture in detail, focusing on the transatlantic
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“A Very Crushable, Kissable Girl”: Queer Love and the Invention of the Abnormal Girl Among College Women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Wendy L. Rouse
Young women growing up in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era increasingly found their relationships subject to scrutiny as doctors, parents, teachers, and school administrators began to worry about the so-called abnormal girl. Attempts to suppress the culture of crushes and romantic friendships between young women reflected these larger cultural anxieties about their relationships. But, as notions
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“Sex Education’s Many Sides”: Eugenics and Sex Education in New York City’s Progressive Reform Organizations Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Julia B. Haager
This article argues that reformers’ racial nativism, belief in the power of eugenics to improve society, and desire to restrict US citizenship to certain racial groups contributed to reproductive and eugenic curriculum used by early public-school sex education programs. It utilizes newspaper accounts and archival records from the headquarters of the American Social Hygiene Association, Committee of
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Disease and Dissent: Progressives, Congress, and the WWI Army Training Camp Crisis Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Eric Setzekorn
In January 1918, Congress began public hearings on the American war effort in World War I due to widespread reports of gross inefficiency and incompetence within the War Department. In particular, unhealthy conditions and the outbreak of disease at hastily constructed training camps led to the deaths of thousands of newly drafted soldiers and prompted a public outcry. The criticism was led by Democratic
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“Pastor was Trapped”: Queer Scandal and Contestations Over Christian Anti-Vice Reform Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Katie M. Hemphill
In November 1915, popular Baltimore minister and anti-vice reformer Kenneth G. Murray became enmeshed in scandal after he allegedly attempted to engage in sex with another man at the Y.M.C.A. The revelation of Murray’s alleged queerness became a flashpoint in ongoing contestations over anti-vice reform and the legitimacy of using state power to enforce Christian morality. In the hands of his political
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Redefining American Philanthropy Through the Archives of Black Philanthropy - Tyrone McKinley Freeman. Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy During Jim Crow. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2020. 304 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08535-2. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Brandon K. L. Winford
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Soldiers, Death, and National Identity - Shannon Bontrager. Death at the Edges of Empire: Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863-1921. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xiv+384 pp. $60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4962-0184-3. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Vicki Daniel
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History and the Robert Charles Riot of 1900 - K. Stephen Prince. The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 264 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4696-6182-7. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 David Fort Godshalk
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Indigenous Americans, Capitalism, and the Columbian Exposition - David R. M Beck. Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xxviii+299 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0683-1. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Thomas J. Lappas
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What Came Next?: Reflections on the Aftermath(s) of the 1918–19 Flu Pandemic in the Age of COVID Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Christopher McKnight Nichols,E. Thomas Ewing,K. Healan Gaston,Maddalena Marinari,Alan Lessoff,David Huyssen
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Outsourcing the Postal Service: Reconceptualizing the State through Geospatial Digital History - Cameron Blevins. Paper Trails: The U.S. Post and the Making of the American West. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 232 pp. $34.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-005367-3. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Robert O’Dell
Cameron Blevins has crafted a shining masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship with Paper Trails: The U.S. Post and the Making of the American West. Blevins contributes a broad reassessment of the state’s role, structure, and reach by leveraging traditional archival research and innovative geospatial digital history methods to study the rapid proliferation of postal services in the late nineteenthand
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African American Soldiers and the Long Civil Rights Movement - Le’Trice D Donaldson. Duty beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870–1920. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2020. 216 pp. $29.50 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8093-3759-0. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Amanda M. Nagel
maps and charts illustrating how postal geography changed over time are central to Blevins’s argumentation. He effectively employs a wide array of engaging charts, ranging from traditional bar graphs depicting postmasters’ removal to proportional area charts illustrating the flow of money orders, to communicate key concepts. One of the book’s considerable merits is its attention to less commonly studied
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Mary Church Terrell and Black Activism - Alison M Parker. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 464 pp. $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4696-5938-1. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Susan Bragg
the Black freedom struggle provides a clearer understanding of what it meant for Black men to be citizens, race leaders, and men during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.With its comprehensive overview of Blackmilitary service after the CivilWar as well as its emphasis on masculinity and the Long Civil Rights movements, Duty beyond the Battlefield would greatly benefit undergraduate
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Gilded Age Americans and the Consumption of the Civil War - James Marten, and Caroline E. Janney, eds., Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021. 286 pp. $36.95 (paper), ISBN 9-780-8203-5965-6. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Shannon Bontrager
Burns and Alice Paul took advantage of new print technology allowing the easy reproduction of photographs in newspapers, along with “modernized campaigns by designing spectacles that would attract professional press photographers who sold their pictures to newspapers and the public” (160). Their militance and their protests won them increased attention but clashed with the NAWSA’s goal of portraying
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Propaganda and Public Relations: How Suffragists Pioneered Visual Campaigning - Allison K. Lange Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 324 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226703244. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Rachel Michelle Gunter
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Parks over Pasture: Enclosing the Commons in Postbellum New Orleans Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Steve Gallo
This article examines the enclosure of the de facto commons that surrounded New Orleans during the final decades of the nineteenth century and argues that public parks were crucial tools deployed by civic elites on behalf of that initiative. As the regulatory efforts of reform-minded mayor Joseph A. Shakspeare failed to eliminate the persistent “cattle nuisance” that emanated from the undeveloped suburbs
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Transborder Capitalism and National Reconciliation: The American Press Reimagines U.S.-Mexico Relations after the Civil War Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Alys Beverton
The end of the Civil War did not eradicate Americans’ concerns regarding the fragility of their republic. For many years after Appomattox, newspapers from across the political spectrum warned that the persistence of sectionalism in the postwar United States threatened to condemn the country to the kind of interminable internal disorder supposedly endemic among the republics of Latin America. This article
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“Vote for your Bread and Butter”: Economic Intimidation of Voters in the Gilded Age Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Gideon Cohn-Postar
The extent and intensity of electoral and voter fraud that took place during the U.S. Gilded Age is properly infamous. This paper explores a form of voter intimidation that has garnered comparatively little scholarly attention: economic coercion. Absent secrecy at the polls and security at work, bosses forced workingmen to choose between their job or their vote. Economic voter intimidation provoked
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“Drug-Mad Negroes”: African Americans, Drug Use, and the Law in Progressive Era New York City Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Douglas Flowe
This study tracks the evolution of racist ideas pertaining to Black drug addiction and crime and the growth of a real interracial drug subculture, both of which had a part in forging New York’s drug policies in the early twentieth century. Well-worn racial tropes about drug use, cultivated in the imaginations of white commentators and pseudoscientists, railroaded African American suspects and contributed
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Exploring Racial Violence During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Microsyllabus Project Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Michael Lansing, Jonathan Cortez, Aaron Jacobs, John Legg, Anthony Stamilio, Jae Tyler-Wolfe
The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 (just twenty-two city blocks from where I write) sparked global demonstrations and renewed long-standing struggles for change. At the southern border, government agents separated migrant children from their families and confined detainees in cages. Politicization of the pandemic made Asian Americans targets of violent racist outbursts. Indigenous