From the River to the Sea: The Railroad Wars
No industry is more central to the Gilded Age than the railroads. It transformed commerce. It shaped the contours of cities and maps. It created leisure and luxury in ways not known before. Best-selli...
19 Okt 202141min
Footnotes: Gilded? Progressive? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Additional Reading:Daniel T. Rogers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998).Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age: 1865-1905 (2005).Maureen Flanagan, Ameri...
6 Okt 202110min
Gilded? Progressive? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
It had to be done: we need to talk about the title and periodization. What is the Gilded Age? What is the Progressive Era? When is it? With Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy Unger we set out to d...
5 Okt 202150min
Footnotes: W.E.B. Du Bois and Critical Race Theory
Additional Reading:David Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (2018).Michael Gomez, Reversing Sail: A History...
29 Sep 20215min
W. E. B. Du Bois and Critical Race Theory
W. E. B. Du Bois made an indelible contribution to American thought and culture, an is an essential figure to those that study the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. With Professor Reiland Rabaka, this s...
28 Sep 202150min
Footnotes: Women's Reproductive Rights in the Progressive Era
Additional Reading:Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies (1999).Jennifer Karnes Alexander, The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control (2008).Da...
15 Sep 20215min
Footnotes: Gilded Age Cocktails
Additional Reading (cocktails):David Wondrich, Imbibe: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar (2015).Wayne Cur...
15 Sep 202110min
Footnotes: The Last Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919
Additional Reading:The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19: Supporting Materials for Teachers (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era).Alfred Crosby, America's Fo...
15 Sep 20218min
