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), I4
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The Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of Reconstruction Memory in the 1880s2
International Arbitration and the Roots of Women’s Foreign Policy Activism1
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
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
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
Henry Adams’s Protean Views of the American Empire, 1890–19051
The Biography of a Woman Erased - Kim E. Nielsen Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. ix + 131 pp. $22.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0252085017.1
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
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The Blue Horizons of the Northern Grasslands - Molly P. Rozum Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xviii + 0
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
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
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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
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
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
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
“Let the Whiskey Question Alone”: William Calvin Chase and Black Anti-Prohibitionist Sentiment in Washington, D.C.0
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
Imperialism’s Proving Grounds - Nancy Shoemaker. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. 472 pp. $48.95 (hardcover), 0
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A Paradox of Pleasure: Black Joy during “the Nadir,” 1875‒19050
A Murder among Minstrels: Show Business, Blackface, and Violence in Post-Civil War New York0
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
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
Wolf Chief, the “Irrepressible Letter Writer”: Native American Activism through Correspondence in the Early Reservation Years0
A Democracy of Good Dinners: E. R. A. Seligman and the Democratic Consumption of Luxury0
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
“A Simple Act of Justice”: The Pueblo Rejection of U.S. Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century0
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Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star as Counter-Narrative for American Indian History-Telling0
Using a Bicycle to Challenge the Progressive Era Color Line - Robert J. Turpin Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024. xi + 233 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 90
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
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
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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
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
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
Doubly Intolerable: Gender, Union Busting, and the Fear of Catholic Power in the Loeb Affair, 1915–19170
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
A Taste of America: How Progressive Era Marginalization of Immigrant Food Ways Defined an American Standard of Living0
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
Reimagining Democracy: The Socialist Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in the United States0
Securing the Public Trust: Yosemite and the Politics of Higher Education in California, 1868–19000
Picturing Protectionism: The Tariff Question in Protectionist Cartoon Propaganda in the United States, 1894‒19090
A Pint-Sized Public Sphere: Compensatory Colonialism in Literature by Elite Children During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
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
Introduction: New Approaches to Music and Sound0
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Blue Gums, Black Bodies, White Supremacy: Narratives of Racial Contagion in the Late Nineteenth Century0
“Showing Up America”: Performing Race and Nation in Britain Before the First World War0
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
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
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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
Women’s Property and the Downward Spiral into Fraud: Questioning the Persistent Narrative of Progress in Women’s Legal Status0
Banking on Loyalty: U.S. Immigrants and the Postal Savings System during the First World War0
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
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
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
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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Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the “White Slave” Case That Changed America0
Abortion, Contraception, and the Comstock Law’s Original Medical Exemption, 1873–19360
The Jungle, The Harbor, and the Left’s Early Reception of Radical Sentimentalism0
Histories with Sound: Using Noise and Music to Teach (and Research) the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
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Introduction: On Literature0
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“Speculative Imaginations”: Listening to 1889, Then and Now0
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“The Indian Side of the Question”: Settling the Story of Potawatomi Removal in the Twentieth-Century Midwest0
A Menace to Free Labor: Anti-Catholicism, the American Protective Association, and Working-Class Formation in Gilded Age America0
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
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
“The Old Order Changeth”: A Favorite Servant Contest and the Debate about Domestic Work in Washington, D.C.0
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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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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
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
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
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
Navigating Climate, Culture, Nature, Science, and Race: A Roundtable on Climate History in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
Still Searching: A Black Family’s Quest for Equality and Recognition during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
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
Organizing Minds and Managing People: J.P. Morgan Bankers on Transatlantic Consolidation of Communication and Capital, 1917–19200
“Like Home”: Gerrymandering the Physical Public Sphere in Female Journalist Narratives0
SHGAPE Announces New Journal Editor0
Teaching GAPE History through Amateur Newspapers and Adolescent Storytelling0
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
Downfall Voyeurism: Jazz Dancing and the Making of Moral Concern in America0
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Fashioning the Gilded Age - Elizabeth L. Block Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 296 pp. $34.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0262045841.0
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
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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
Hierarchy and Higher Education - Christina Groeger. The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 384 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 90
Mr. Bentley Goes to Washington: Reform, Reaction, and Competing Conceptions of Government in the Civil War Pension System, 1876–18810
Evaluating Plunkitt’s “Solemn Contract”: Working-Class Perspectives on Tammany Hall and Upper-Class Reform Politics, 1870–19240
A Seven-Year-Old Murderer and the Crimes of Gilded Age Childhood0
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
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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
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
The Long Red Summer on the Railroads: Labor, Race, and Exclusion in Appalachia0
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith’s Bestselling Introduction to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
Less a Barrier Than a Surprise: Policing Everyday Commerce Along the 49th Parallel, 1880–19100
Robert W. McAfee: The Comstock of Chicago0
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
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Japanese Tea and Transnational History - Hellyer Robert. Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $32.00 (hardcover), ISBN 90
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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
Understanding Comstock through Primary Sources0
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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
“There Is Nothing So Sacred as Human Life”: Infanticide and the State in Maine, 1877–19170
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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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
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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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
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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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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
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
“An Army of Little Mothers”: Progressive Era Eugenic Maternalism and the Medicalization of Motherhood0
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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
“The Great White Mother”: Harriet Maxwell Converse, the Indian Colony of New York City, and the Media, 1885–19030
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
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
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
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
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
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
Teaching Charles Alexander Eastman’s “The North American Indian” in Dialogue with Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star0
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
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
“How to kick a lady downstairs like perfect gentlemen”: Frances Kellor in the Masculine Realm, 1903–19200
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“Pastor was Trapped”: Queer Scandal and Contestations Over Christian Anti-Vice Reform—CORRIGENDUM0
“The Best Songs Came from the Gutters”: Tin Pan Alley and the Birth of Manhattan Mass Culture0
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 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
Autonomy Through Allotment: Political Strategies of the Ottawa Tribe in Indian Territory, 1870–18920
On Patrons and Shoppers: Representations of Consumer Culture in the Black Press from 1890 to 19200
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
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
Isaac M. Rubinow and the Migrant-Knowledge Origins of the Standard of Living0
The Power of Racial Mapping: Ellsworth Huntington, Immigration, and Eugenics in the Progressive Era0
A Delayed Revenge: “Yellow Journalism” and the Long Quest for Cuba, 1851–18980
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
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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
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
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
Comstock, Reconstruction Politics, and Moral Surveillance0
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
Podcasting the Gilded Age and Progressive Era - Michael Patrick Cullinane. The Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Podcast. 2021. https://shows.acast.com/gildedageandprogressiveera.0
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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
The Enigma of San Francisco: Henry George and the Historians0
The Politics of Childbirth - Barbara Schneider. Corporal Rhetoric: Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2021. 264 pp. $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-08170
Walter Nugent and the Broadening of U.S. History0
Capital and Labor United: Workers, Wages, and the Tariff in Late Nineteenth-Century Protectionist Agitation0
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
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
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Secure from the World’s Contagions: Settlement House Summer Camping in the Progressive Era0
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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
Editorial Comings and Goings0
An Embarrassment of Editorial Riches0
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
The Goldbugs Go Global: The Philippines, China, and the Foundations of Development0
Essential Business: The Flu, the War, and the Economy0
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 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
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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
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
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
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
Hearing the Americas: Understanding the Early Recording Industry with Digital Tools0
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
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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
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
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Anthony Comstock, Abortion, and the Arrest of Madame Restell0
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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
“An Exhibit as Will Astonish the Civilized World”: Seeking Separate Statehood for Indian Territory at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition0
Targeting Victoria Woodhull: The Visual Debates that Drove Anthony Comstock’s Pursuit of the First Woman to Run for United States President0
Master of the House: Thomas Bracket Reed and the Institution of the Speaker - Robert J. Klotz Thomas Brackett Reed: The Gilded Age Speaker Who Made the Rules for American Politics. Lawrence: Universi0
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
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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
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