Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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Slavery and Capitalism, Redux - Roberto Saba. American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. xi + 373 pp. $35.00 (cloth), I5
The Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of Reconstruction Memory in the 1880s2
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Cash Crop: Tobacco and Taxes in the United States - Patrick Mulford O’Connor. The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862–1933. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025. 240 pp. $105.00 (c1
International Arbitration and the Roots of Women’s Foreign Policy Activism1
Isaac M. Rubinow and the Migrant-Knowledge Origins of the Standard of Living1
Beyond 1890: Rethinking the Grand Army of the Republic - Jonathan D. Neu Our Onward March: The Grand Army of the Republic in the Progressive Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 2025. 288 pp. $121
Great Conspiracies, Stealing Seats, and Anarchy: Senatorial Elections in Disputed States, 1892–18931
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Colonial Samoa - Holger Droessler. Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0674263338.1
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Lawrence Goodwyn’s Democratic Promise (1976): A Fiftieth-Anniversary Retrospective1
“An Army of Little Mothers”: Progressive Era Eugenic Maternalism and the Medicalization of Motherhood0
Autonomy Through Allotment: Political Strategies of the Ottawa Tribe in Indian Territory, 1870–18920
Spectacle and Speed - Brian M. Ingrassia Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024. 286 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 97802520450
Agriculture and Industry, Friends at Last - Benjamin T. Jenkins Octopus’s Garden: How Railroads and Citrus Transformed Southern California. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. 384 pp. $54.99 0
“The Best Songs Came from the Gutters”: Tin Pan Alley and the Birth of Manhattan Mass Culture0
Essential Business: The Flu, the War, and the Economy0
The Jungle, The Harbor, and the Left’s Early Reception of Radical Sentimentalism0
Woman’s Work as the Work of the World - Anya Jabour. Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women’s Activism in Modern America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019. vii + 322 pp. $29.95 (paperba0
The Golden Age of Pragmatic Socialism: Wisconsin Socialists at the State Level, 1919–370
Navigating Climate, Culture, Nature, Science, and Race: A Roundtable on Climate History in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
Historians for Hire: Selling the Story of McCormick’s Reaper - Daniel P. Ott Harvesting History: McCormick’s Reaper, Heritage Branding, and Historical Forgery. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 0
Fashion and Twentieth-Century Feminism - Einav Rabinovitch-Fox. Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. xii + 248 pp. $110.00 (0
Comstock, Reconstruction Politics, and Moral Surveillance0
Teaching Charles Alexander Eastman’s “The North American Indian” in Dialogue with Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star0
The Midwestern Screen and the Anthropological Gaze - Britt E. Halvorson, and Joshua O. Reno. Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest. Oakland: University of California Press0
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Performing Deadball - Travis Stern. Ballplayers on Stage: Baseball, Melodrama, and Theatrical Celebrity in the Deadball Era. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2024. 248 pp. $70.00 (cloth), IS0
A Villain Origin Story: Localized School Funding and the Architecture of Inequality - Matthew Gardner Kelly. Dividing the Public: School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequality. Ithaca, NY:0
“Building A Great Organization for War”: The Associational State and Woman’s War Work in North Carolina, 1917–19190
Democracy and Civility in Gilded Age America - Jon Grinspan. The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021. 384 pp. $30.00 (hardcover), ISBN 0
Feminist Friendships and Greenwich Village’s Heterodoxy Club - Joanna Scutts. Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism. New York: Seal Press, 2022. 416 pp. 0
“The Indian Side of the Question”: Settling the Story of Potawatomi Removal in the Twentieth-Century Midwest0
Capital and Labor United: Workers, Wages, and the Tariff in Late Nineteenth-Century Protectionist Agitation0
Disinfecting the Dead, Sanitizing Empire: The Cultural Memory of Fallen Soldiers in Cuba0
Of Lives and Landscapes - Steven T. Moga Urban Lowlands: A History of Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Planning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 240 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226710532; $350
Interpreting the Life and Activism of William Monroe Trotter - Aaron Pride. Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Black Protest Movement: William Monroe Trotter’s Civil Rights Activism in Early Twentieth-Cent0
Anti-Vice Goes Global - Eva Payne. Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780691256979.0
Texas Populism and American Liberalism - Greg Cantrell. The People’s Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. ix + 555 pp. $22.99 (clo0
Kerosene Is King: Kerosene Consumers and the Antitrust Movement against Standard Oil, 1859–19110
“Captain, Pilot, Engineer”: Navigating the “Solitude of Self” - Shannon M. Risk The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates: A Crusader for Women’s Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work. Lanham, 0
Lofty Purposes and Clear Aims: Civil War Commemoration in St. Louis, Missouri, 1862–19000
Children Matter: French Orphans, Humanitarianism, and U.S.-French Relations during World War I - Emmanuel Destenay. America’s French Orphans: Mobilization, Humanitarianism, and the Protection of Fran0
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Christian Nationalism: The Persistence of an Idea - Benjamin J. Wetzel, American Crusade: Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860-1920. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. x + 215 0
Governing the Clouds - Sean Seyer. Sovereign Skies: The Origins of American Civil Aviation Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. viii + 299 pp. $67.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781421440538.0
Residential Jim Crow and Class Struggles in the South - Elizabeth A Herbin-Triant. Threatening Property: Race, Class, and Campaigns to Legislate Jim Crow Neighborhoods. New York: Columbia University 0
Woodrow Wilson and His Inner Circle - Charles E. Neu The Wilson Circle: President Woodrow Wilson and His Advisers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 296 pp. $49.95 (hardcover), ISBN 970
Writing Like a Woman - Ayelet Brinn. A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 329 pp. $39.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781479817665.0
Debating the Military during the Civil War and Reconstruction - Cecily N. Zander The Army under Fire: The Politics of Antimilitarism in the Civil War Era. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Pres0
Mr. Bentley Goes to Washington: Reform, Reaction, and Competing Conceptions of Government in the Civil War Pension System, 1876–18810
The Civil War in Fiction - Kathleen Diffley. The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861–1876. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2021. xv + 268 pp. $36.95 (paper), 0
Making a White Middle Class - Joseph O Jewell. White Man’s Work: Race and Middle-Class Mobility into the Progressive Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 210 pp. $29.95 (paper)0
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The Natural History of Nations: Simon Newcomb and the Forging of a Postwar American Science0
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The History of American Statebuilding - Ballard C. Campbell The Paradox of Power: Statebuilding in America, 1754–1920. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021. x + 365 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780
Theodore Roosevelt, Nationalist Internationalism, and the Globalizing of America - Howard Jones, edited by Donald A. Rakestraw. Eyes on the Stars and Feet on the Ground: The Foreign Policy of Theodor0
The First World War and Irish Independence - Emmanuel Destenay. Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland 1914–1918: Divergent Destinies. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. xx +0
The Second Martyred President - C. W. Goodyear President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023. 624 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781982146917. $22.99 (paper), ISBN 97810
Mapping Corporate Capitalism - James Michael Buckley. City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 360 pp. $45.00 (cloth),0
From Estuary to Empire: The Transformation of San Pedro Bay - James Tejani. A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2024. 464 pp0
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Beyond Memory: Race, Section, Labor, and the Meaning of the Civil War - Matthew E. Stanley Grand Army of Labor: Workers, Veterans, and the Meaning of the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Pre0
Securing the Public Trust: Yosemite and the Politics of Higher Education in California, 1868–19000
Ending the Coal Age - Mark Aldrich. The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940. xxi + 327 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. $64.95 0
Outside the Box: Panama Canal Workers’ Accounts of Their Lives and Work - Julie Greene. Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Pr0
Museum and Book Review: Forgetting Crimes at the Frick - Ian Wardropper. The Fricks Collect: An American Family and the Evolution of Taste in the Gilded Age. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2025. 167 pp. 0
Becoming a Progressive University - Winton U. Solberg, and J. David Hoeveler. Edmund J. James and the Making of the Modern University of Illinois, 1904–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 200
Finding the Infrastructure of Financial Empire - Mary Bridges. Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers and the Making of a Superpower. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 280 pp. $35.00 (cloth)0
Crisis Managers in Chief: Gilded Age Presidents and American Economic Development - Mark Zachary Taylor. Presidential Leadership in Feeble Times: Explaining Executive Power in the Gilded Age. New Yo0
The Germans of New York’s Kleindeutschland - Christina Ziegler-McPherson. The Great Disappearing Act: Germans in New York City, 1880–1930. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 238 pp. $0
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The Battle of the Standards - Wyatt Wells. Financial Politics in the United States in the 1890s: The Golden Web. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. xii + 330 pp. $159.99 (cloth), ISBN 9783031867644.0
The Long Collapse of Reconstruction - Manisha Sinha. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic. New York: Liveright, 2024. xxvii + 562 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781631498442; $19.99 (paper), 0
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Cognitive Mapping and the Collective Production of Lodging and Vice Districts - James Mallery. City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco’s Urban History, 1848–1917. Lincoln: University of Nebraska P0
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Resisting Urban Renewal in the Progressive Era - Adrienne D. deNoyelles The Lung Block: Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. 264 pp0
Beyond the Single Tax: Henry George and His Movement - Christopher William England. Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 200
The Sweet and Bitter Fruit of Freedom - Karen Cook Bell, ed. Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 0
Sexual Racism in the Ranks: The Impact of Sexual Stereotypes on the Placement of African American Soldiers During the First World War0
Targeting Victoria Woodhull: The Visual Debates that Drove Anthony Comstock’s Pursuit of the First Woman to Run for United States President0
Grant’s Texas Tour: The Reconstruction President Reconciles with Redemption - Edward T. CothamJr. A Busy Week in Texas: Ulysses S. Grant’s 1880 Visit to the Lone Star State. Austin: Texas State Hist0
Feeling and the State in Women’s Reform - Elizabeth Garner Masarik. The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2024. ix + 236 p0
Performance as a Site of Resistance - Sakina M. Hughes Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts: Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 2240
Branding Beauty, Packaging Prestige - Stacy A. Cordery Becoming Elizabeth Arden: The Woman Behind the Global Beauty Empire. New York: Viking, 2024. xiv + 495 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780525559764.0
“How to kick a lady downstairs like perfect gentlemen”: Frances Kellor in the Masculine Realm, 1903–19200
Set up to Fail: The Economic Violence of Reconstruction - Justene Hill Edwards. Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank. New York: W. W. Norton, 2024. xvii + 310 pp. $29.99 (0
Histories with Sound: Using Noise and Music to Teach (and Research) the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
Democratic Impulses in Education - Connie Goddard. Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024. 312 pp. $125.00 (cloth), IS0
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Religious Roots of the Long War on Drugs - Andrew Monteith. Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 304 pp. $89.00 (cloth), ISBN 97814798170
The Making of U.S. Racial Policing, 1845 to the 1920s - Matthew Guariglia. Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 280
The Payoff of Pretend Socialism - Mark A. Lause Counterfeiting Labor’s Voice: William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024. xv + 176 pp0
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Making Capitalism Friendly - Daniel Robert. Courteous Capitalism: Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem 1900–1930. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2023. viii + 322 pp. $64.95 (cloth), I0
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Reframing the Settler: Reconstructing Black, Native, and White Histories in Indian Territory - Alaina Roberts. I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. Philadelphia: University of 0
Women’s Property and the Downward Spiral into Fraud: Questioning the Persistent Narrative of Progress in Women’s Legal Status0
Beyond Narratives of “Failure”: Reconstruction from the Black Grassroots - Kidada E. Williams I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War against Reconstruction. New York: Bloomsb0
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Law, Liberty, and Anarchism in the Progressive Era - Michael Willrich. American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. New Y0
Teaching GAPE History through Amateur Newspapers and Adolescent Storytelling0
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A Trip to Catland - Kathryn Hughes. Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. 432 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781421448145.0
Were Gilded Age Judges Conservative, and How? - William E. Nelson Two Forms of Conservatism: Judicial Reasoning in New York Courts, 1860–1920. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2024. 192 pp. $44.0
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Shifting the Narrative of American Medical History - Peter A. Swenson Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. 584 pp. $35.0
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Translating Empire: The United States and European Imperialism before 1898 - Andrew Priest. Designs on Empire: America’s Rise to Power in the Age of European Imperialism. New York: Columbia Universit0
Protection versus the Self-Made Man: Gender and the Demise of the Child Labor Amendment0
Engineering, Finance, and the Spanning of the Mississippi River - John K. Brown Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. 392 pa0
Sound Citizenship: Hearing and Speech Disabilities in World War I0
Toward a History of Race and American Socialism - Lorenzo Costaguta. Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. xi + 230 pp. 0
Black Southerners and the Great Sea Island Storm - Caroline Grego. Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Pr0
“A Simple Act of Justice”: The Pueblo Rejection of U.S. Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century0
A Pint-Sized Public Sphere: Compensatory Colonialism in Literature by Elite Children During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
A Look Back at the Inflation of the 1910s - David I. Macleod Inflation Decade, 1910–1920: Americans Confront the High Cost of Living. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 351 pp. $129.99 (cloth), ISBN 0
The Politics of a Gilded Age Scandal - Peters Shawn Francis. When Bad Men Combine: The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age Politics. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.0
Wolf Chief, the “Irrepressible Letter Writer”: Native American Activism through Correspondence in the Early Reservation Years0
Creating Welfare States?: A Comparative History of Early Child Labor Legislation - Elisabeth Anderson. Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Uni0
Doubly Intolerable: Gender, Union Busting, and the Fear of Catholic Power in the Loeb Affair, 1915–19170
“Like Home”: Gerrymandering the Physical Public Sphere in Female Journalist Narratives0
SHGAPE Announces New Journal Editor0
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On Patrons and Shoppers: Representations of Consumer Culture in the Black Press from 1890 to 19200
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A Mainstream Progressive’s Three Careers - Joanne Reitano. Charles Evans Hughes and the Dawning of Modern America. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2025. 400 pp. $54.99 (cloth), ISBN 978070063880
Strangers in the Southland - Jennifer E. Brooks Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2022. xii + 270 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 970
A Democracy of Good Dinners: E. R. A. Seligman and the Democratic Consumption of Luxury0
Climate Uncertainty in America’s Gilded Age - Joseph Giacomelli. Uncertain Climes: Debating Climate Change in Gilded Age America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 238 pp. $40.00 (cloth), I0
Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–19180
A Paradox of Pleasure: Black Joy during “the Nadir,” 1875‒19050
Imperial Dreams: The Subaltern Talks Back - Maggie M. Cao Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 290 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 97802260
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Abortion, Contraception, and the Comstock Law’s Original Medical Exemption, 1873–19360
Warrior Queens of the Silver Screen - Liz Clarke. The American Girl Goes to War: Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. ix + 169 pp. $29.90
“An Exhibit as Will Astonish the Civilized World”: Seeking Separate Statehood for Indian Territory at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition0
Exercising Citizenship - Ava Purkiss. Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 248 pp. $240
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Blue Gums, Black Bodies, White Supremacy: Narratives of Racial Contagion in the Late Nineteenth Century0
German Texans and Farmer-Labor Radicalism - Thomas AlterII . Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of Farmer-Labor Radicalism in Texas. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022.0
The Untold History of the Social Gospel - Janine Giordano Drake. The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement. New York: Oxford Univers0
Picturing Protectionism: The Tariff Question in Protectionist Cartoon Propaganda in the United States, 1894‒19090
Peonage and Progress: Reconstructing Debtors’ Rights from the Civil War to the New Deal - Daniel Platt. The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted America. Chicago: University of Chicago 0
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Lasting Infamy: Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Southern Lost Cause - Court Carney. Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 0
Introduction—Immigration and the American Standard of Living in the Progressive Era: How the Encounter with Foreign Peoples Shaped the Politics of Consumption in the United States0
Reimagining Democracy: The Socialist Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in the United States0
From Spiritual Community to Sexual Scandal: How a Gilded Age Controversy Shaped Our Fear of Cults - Joshua Paddison. Unholy Sensations: A Story of Sex, Scandal, and California’s First Cult Scare. New0
Vigilantism as Labor Management - Chad E. Pearson Capital’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 324 pp. 0
The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws0
Corporate Colonialism, Class, and Conflict in Southeastern Alaska’s Canneries - Diane J. Purvis Ragged Coast, Rugged Coves: Labor, Culture, and Politics in Southeast Alaska Canneries. Lincoln: Univer0
Introduction: New Approaches to Music and Sound0
Anthony Comstock, Abortion, and the Arrest of Madame Restell0
Evaluating Plunkitt’s “Solemn Contract”: Working-Class Perspectives on Tammany Hall and Upper-Class Reform Politics, 1870–19240
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Excavating Archaeology’s Diverse Past - John W. I. Lee The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xxviii + 418 pp. $38.00 (hardcover), ISBN0
State Surveillance and Anarchism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands - Kelly Lytle Hernández. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. New York: Norton, 2022. 384 pp. $30.00 (hardcov0
Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the “White Slave” Case That Changed America0
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Efficiency Comes for the Colleges - Ethan W Ris. Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 387 pp. $35.00 (paperback), ISBN0
Pushing the Boundaries of Union Monument Building in New York City - Akela Reason. Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2025. xii + 20
A Menace to Free Labor: Anti-Catholicism, the American Protective Association, and Working-Class Formation in Gilded Age America0
Dirty Deals at the Florence Café: The Case of Immigration Agent Robert L. Dodd and Turn-of-the-Century Human Smuggling on the Texas-Mexico Border0
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“Speculative Imaginations”: Listening to 1889, Then and Now0
Who Owns Pre-History? - Rachel Morgan. Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 328 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 97802260
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Making A White Man’s West - Sarah Deutsch. Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. x + 640 pp. $50.00 (ha0
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America’s Don Quixote: John Newman Edwards’s Chivalric Quest for the Lost Cause - Matthew Christopher Hulbert. Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War. Lincoln: Univ0
A Classroom-Worthy Video Game - Tore C. Olsson Red Dead’s History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America’s Violent Past. New York: Saint Martin’s, 2024. vii + 273 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781250280
Still Searching: A Black Family’s Quest for Equality and Recognition during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
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Toward a Broader Understanding of the Evolution of Modern Urban Policing - Michael Casiano. Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore’s Police State. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025. xi + 2660
Nationalist Rhetoric and Educational State-Building in the Progressive Era - Cody Dodge Ewert. Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern Educational Politics. Baltimore, MD: Johns0
Abolitionists after Abolition - Raymond James Krohn. Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the Fate of Racial Egalitarianism, 1865–1909. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 288 pp. $1250
Organizing Minds and Managing People: J.P. Morgan Bankers on Transatlantic Consolidation of Communication and Capital, 1917–19200
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“Speak the Language of Your Flag”: Speech, Language, and Oralism During the First World War0
Jay Fox, American Radical - Greg Hall. Writing Labor’s Emancipation: The Anarchist Life and Times of Jay Fox. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. 276 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780295750570
Understanding Irish Catholic Radicals in Protestant Capitalism - David M. Emmons History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870–1930. Urbana: Univer0
American Society, Disabled Veterans, and the Politics of Identification - Evan P. Sullivan Constructing Disability after the Great War: Blind Veterans in the Progressive Era. Urbana: University of Il0
Making the Sailor’s Empire of Exclusion - Riddell William D.. On the Waves of Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Merchant Sailors, 1872–1924. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. xi + 217 pp. $100 (0
“The Great White Mother”: Harriet Maxwell Converse, the Indian Colony of New York City, and the Media, 1885–19030
Musician on Patrol: How Chicago’s Chief of Police Saved Irish Music - Michael O’Malley. The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 200
The Power of Racial Mapping: Ellsworth Huntington, Immigration, and Eugenics in the Progressive Era0
The Other Brother - Simon Cordery. Gilded Age Entrepreneur: The Curious Life of American Financier Albert Benton Pullman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2025. xvi + 347 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISB0
“The Swindle of the Century”: Fraud, Finance, and Femininity in the Gilded Age0
Downfall Voyeurism: Jazz Dancing and the Making of Moral Concern in America0
Demolishing American Mythologies: The Weak State and the New Deal Order - William J. Novak New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 3840
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Connecticut’s Conservation Senator - Will McLean Greeley. A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate. Rochester, NY: RIT Press, 2023. 305 pp. $34.95 (pap0
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Posthumous Pardons and Progressive Era Injustices - Scott D. Seligman A Second Reckoning: Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. pp. 288. $320
William Hanson: From a “Position in the Shadows” to Enforcer of the Imperial-Gatekeeper State - John Weber. William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border: Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gat0
A Murder among Minstrels: Show Business, Blackface, and Violence in Post-Civil War New York0
Reconstruction Unbounded: America’s Most Dynamic (or Tragic) Epoch - Orville Vernon Burton, and J. Brent Morris, eds., Reconstruction Beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom. Charlottesville0
Employers and the Battle for the Closed Shop - Vilja Hulden. The Bosses’ Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New Deal. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. 360 pp. $125.000
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The Enigma of San Francisco: Henry George and the Historians0
Less a Barrier Than a Surprise: Policing Everyday Commerce Along the 49th Parallel, 1880–19100
Secure from the World’s Contagions: Settlement House Summer Camping in the Progressive Era0
Walter Nugent and the Broadening of U.S. History0
Hearing the Americas: Understanding the Early Recording Industry with Digital Tools0
Empire’s Black Sites - Benjamin Weber. American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration. New York: New Press, 2023. 304 pp. $28.99 (cloth), ISBN 9781620975909.0
A Forgotten Saint of American Socialism - Ryan C. McIlhenny American Socialist: Laurence Gronlund and the Power Behind Revolution. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2025. 288 pp. $45.00 0
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A Seven-Year-Old Murderer and the Crimes of Gilded Age Childhood0
Centering Women of Color in Suffrage History - Cathleen D Cahill. Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2020. 376 pp. $30
Relief and Refuge in the Progressive Era American West - Thomas A. Krainz A Great Many Refugees: Progressive Era Assistance in the American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025. xvi + 320
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The Amendment Nobody Knows - Mark A. Graber Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. li + 361 pp. 0
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith’s Bestselling Introduction to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
Imperial Reconstructions - David Prior, ed. Reconstruction and Empire: The Legacies of Abolition and Union Victory for an Imperial Age. New York: Fordham University Press, 2022. xiii + 350 pp. $35.000
The Long Red Summer on the Railroads: Labor, Race, and Exclusion in Appalachia0
A Taste of America: How Progressive Era Marginalization of Immigrant Food Ways Defined an American Standard of Living0
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New Directions in Political History0
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Understanding Comstock through Primary Sources0
The Goldbugs Go Global: The Philippines, China, and the Foundations of Development0
Cuban Florida before Miami - Sarah McNamara. Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 266 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781469668154; $26.95 (paper)0
“There Is Nothing So Sacred as Human Life”: Infanticide and the State in Maine, 1877–19170
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Banking on Loyalty: U.S. Immigrants and the Postal Savings System during the First World War0
The Civil Rights of Everyday Use - Dylan C. Penningroth Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. New York: Liveright, 2023. xiii + 465 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781324093107; $20
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The Substance of Empire: Symbolic Power and U.S. Colonialism - Alvita Akiboh. Imperial Material: National Symbols in the U.S. Colonial Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. ix + 284 pp.0
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Slavery’s Specter in the Law - Giuliana Perrone. Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xv + 316 pp. $59.99 (cloth), ISBN 970
Saving Europe, Creating America - Tammy M. Proctor Saving Europe: First World War Relief and American Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. 286 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780197584361.0
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Play Spaces of the Rich and Young - Abigail A Van Slyck. Playhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025. 408 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN0
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