Welcome to H-SHGAPE, the online forum of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and one of the founding networks on H-NET. H-SHGAPE seeks to encourage the study of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era through its network and online resources.
Please contact Chelsea Gibson, H-SHGAPE Network Editor-in-Chief, with questions, comments, or concerns. For book review queries, please contact the H-SHGAPE Book Review Editor, William S. Cossen.
H-SHGAPE was originally developed and maintained by Dr. Patrick Reagan, who deserves credit for assembling its wealth of information. Thanks are also due to Dr. Katherine Osburn (Editor-in-Chief, 2000-2016) and to the numerous GAPE scholars whose contributions in the form of syllabi, bibliographies, essays, and reviews make H-SHGAPE an invaluable resource for students and teachers.
Dear H-SHGAPE Subscribers
You may be interested in an upcoming special on PBS American Masters that is airing this Friday (7/10) at 9PM. The program, Unladylike2020, features 26 women, 5 of whom represent the GAPE. Our own Nancy Unger provides commentary on Jeannette Rankin.
You can find more information about how to access the special below:
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
29 June 2020 to 6 July 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-SHGAPE. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
I am pleased to announce a new title from McFarland Press for those interested in Gilded Age museumcraft, commemoration, and public memory.
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Dear readers,
I'd like to draw your attention to a new book, out this month from Palgrave:
From the publisher's website:
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The following reviews were posted to the H-Net Commons between
22 Jun 2020 and 29 Jun 2020.
Reviewed for H-War by Brian R. Price
Dear H-SHGAPE Subscribers
We invite you over to the SHGAPE blog to check out our latest installment of "Minding the GAPE." This month's links include:
Sincerely
Chelsea
Ed-in-chief
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
22 June 2020 to 29 June 2020. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-SHGAPE.
AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES
New-York Historical Society - New-York Historical Society Public
Fellows Program in Religion in the American West
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60169
BUSINESS HISTORY / ECONOMIC HISTORY / STUDIES
CFP Reminder: SHGAPE is organizing a lightning around for the 2021 OAH to highlight the work of emerging scholars in the field. Each lightning round session includes 6-10 emerging scholars and 2 chairs/moderators. Each scholar has 5-8 minutes to give their “elevator pitch” of their research in quick succession followed by a question and answer period. If you are a graduate student or a recent Ph.D.
Dear H-SHGAPE Subscribers
The editors of the SHGAPE Blog would like to invite you to check out our latest 1918 Flu Pandemic Series. This week's post is by Chelsea Chamberlain, a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her post, "An Avalanche of Unexpected Sickness" is about the fate of residents at the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-minded Children at Elwyn.
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