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), I16
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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 978-0252085017.2
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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 978-0674263338.2
Great Conspiracies, Stealing Seats, and Anarchy: Senatorial Elections in Disputed States, 1892–18932
The Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Politics of Reconstruction Memory in the 1880s2
The Rhetorical and Visual Frontiers of Woman’s Suffrage - Tiffany Lewis. Uprising: How Women Used the US West to Win the Right to Vote. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2021. xxx + 289 1
The Election of 1916, “Negrowumpism,” and the Black Defection from the Republican Party1
Henry Adams’s Protean Views of the American Empire, 1890–19051
International Arbitration and the Roots of Women’s Foreign Policy Activism1
“Building A Great Organization for War”: The Associational State and Woman’s War Work in North Carolina, 1917–19191
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Learning Empire - Brian Rouleau. Empire’s Nursery: Children’s Literature and the Origins of the American Century. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 320 pp. $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9781479800
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
Understanding Comstock through Primary Sources0
“An Exhibit as Will Astonish the Civilized World”: Seeking Separate Statehood for Indian Territory at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition0
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
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
Transforming the Gilded Age Beach - Jamin Wells. Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 258 pp. $29.95 (paperback)0
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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
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
“The Great White Mother”: Harriet Maxwell Converse, the Indian Colony of New York City, and the Media, 1885–19030
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
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, IL0
Blue Gums, Black Bodies, White Supremacy: Narratives of Racial Contagion in the Late Nineteenth Century0
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
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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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
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
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
Secure from the World’s Contagions: Settlement House Summer Camping in the Progressive Era0
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
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
A Delayed Revenge: “Yellow Journalism” and the Long Quest for Cuba, 1851–18980
“The Indian Side of the Question”: Settling the Story of Potawatomi Removal in the Twentieth-Century Midwest0
“Vote for your Bread and Butter”: Economic Intimidation of Voters in the Gilded Age0
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 Long Red Summer on the Railroads: Labor, Race, and Exclusion in Appalachia0
“A Simple Act of Justice”: The Pueblo Rejection of U.S. Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century0
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
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
“The Best Songs Came from the Gutters”: Tin Pan Alley and the Birth of Manhattan Mass Culture0
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
Teaching GAPE History through Amateur Newspapers and Adolescent Storytelling0
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
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
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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
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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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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
Theodore Roosevelt and the Unionist Memory of the Civil War: Experience, History, and Politics, 1861–19180
From Talking Machines to Music Machines: The Early Years of Recorded Sound and Playback in Pictures and Audio0
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Capital and Labor United: Workers, Wages, and the Tariff in Late Nineteenth-Century Protectionist Agitation0
Where Did This Come From?0
New Directions in Political History0
Introduction: New Approaches to Music and Sound0
“A Crime Against Humanity”: Prison, Capitalism, and Convict No. 9653 (Eugene V. Debs)0
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,0
Comstock, Reconstruction Politics, and Moral Surveillance0
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 p0
Retaining the Empire: Taft and the Philippines - Adam Burns. William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2020. xii + 189 pp. $70.00 (clo0
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 Neb0
Targeting Victoria Woodhull: The Visual Debates that Drove Anthony Comstock’s Pursuit of the First Woman to Run for United States President0
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
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
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
Transborder Capitalism and National Reconciliation: The American Press Reimagines U.S.-Mexico Relations after the Civil War0
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
Evaluating Plunkitt’s “Solemn Contract”: Working-Class Perspectives on Tammany Hall and Upper-Class Reform Politics, 1870–19240
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
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 Nebraska0
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
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
“Sex Education’s Many Sides”: Eugenics and Sex Education in New York City’s Progressive Reform Organizations0
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Securing the Public Trust: Yosemite and the Politics of Higher Education in California, 1868–19000
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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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
Abortion, Contraception, and the Comstock Law’s Original Medical Exemption, 1873–19360
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
“Showing Up America”: Performing Race and Nation in Britain Before the First World War0
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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 Pre0
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 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
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
Disinfecting the Dead, Sanitizing Empire: The Cultural Memory of Fallen Soldiers in Cuba0
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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
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“Pastor was Trapped”: Queer Scandal and Contestations Over Christian Anti-Vice Reform—CORRIGENDUM0
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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
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
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
“An Army of Little Mothers”: Progressive Era Eugenic Maternalism and the Medicalization of Motherhood0
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
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
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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 Uni0
What Came Next?: Reflections on the Aftermath(s) of the 1918–19 Flu Pandemic in the Age of COVID0
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
“Drug-Mad Negroes”: African Americans, Drug Use, and the Law in Progressive Era New York City0
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
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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
Kerosene Is King: Kerosene Consumers and the Antitrust Movement against Standard Oil, 1859–19110
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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
Histories with Sound: Using Noise and Music to Teach (and Research) the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
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
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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
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
Navigating Climate, Culture, Nature, Science, and Race: A Roundtable on Climate History in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
The Goldbugs Go Global: The Philippines, China, and the Foundations of Development0
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
“A Very Crushable, Kissable Girl”: Queer Love and the Invention of the Abnormal Girl Among College Women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
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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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
Robert W. McAfee: The Comstock of Chicago0
A Fictionalized History of Popular Theater - David Hajdu and John Carey. A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge. New York: Columbia Unive0
A Murder among Minstrels: Show Business, Blackface, and Violence in Post-Civil War New York0
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
Walter Nugent and the Broadening of U.S. History0
Hearing the Americas: Understanding the Early Recording Industry with Digital Tools0
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
Editorial Comings and Goings0
An Embarrassment of Editorial Riches0
Hemispheric Reconstructions: Post-Emancipation Social Movements and Capitalist Reaction in Colombia and the United States0
Sound Citizenship: Hearing and Speech Disabilities in World War I0
A Paradox of Pleasure: Black Joy during “the Nadir,” 1875‒19050
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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
Disease and Dissent: Progressives, Congress, and the WWI Army Training Camp Crisis0
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The Enigma of San Francisco: Henry George and the Historians0
Monsters of the Railway: Capitalist Limits and Corporate Power in the New South - R. Scott HuffardJr. Engines of Redemption: Railroads and the Reconstruction of Capitalism in the New South. Chapel Hi0
Exploring Racial Violence During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Microsyllabus Project0
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
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
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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
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Anthony Comstock, Abortion, and the Arrest of Madame Restell0
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
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
Anti-Black Racial Violence and Popular Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith’s Bestselling Introduction to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
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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On Patrons and Shoppers: Representations of Consumer Culture in the Black Press from 1890 to 19200
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
Atlantic Crossings Revisited0
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
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
Teaching Charles Alexander Eastman’s “The North American Indian” in Dialogue with Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star0
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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
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
Qualified Immunity: State Power, Vigilantism and the History of Racial Violence0
Reimagining Democracy: The Socialist Origins of the Initiative and Referendum in the United States0
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
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
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
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Teaching Queer History in the GAPE Classroom0
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“The Old Order Changeth”: A Favorite Servant Contest and the Debate about Domestic Work in Washington, D.C.0
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Indigenous and Settler Violence during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
Parks over Pasture: Enclosing the Commons in Postbellum New Orleans0
Realtors Interpret History: The Intellectual Origins of Early National Real Estate Organizing0
The Jungle, The Harbor, and the Left’s Early Reception of Radical Sentimentalism0
Autonomy Through Allotment: Political Strategies of the Ottawa Tribe in Indian Territory, 1870–18920
Greek Confectioners, Kandy Kitchens, and the KKK - Ann Flesor Beck. Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. xi + 303 pp. $0
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
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Race, God, and Freedom in the Postemancipation South - Elizabeth L. Jemison Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South. Chapel Hill: University of North Ca0
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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
“Speak the Language of Your Flag”: Speech, Language, and Oralism During the First World War0
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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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
The Power of Racial Mapping: Ellsworth Huntington, Immigration, and Eugenics in the Progressive Era0
Women’s Property and the Downward Spiral into Fraud: Questioning the Persistent Narrative of Progress in Women’s Legal Status0
“Speculative Imaginations”: Listening to 1889, Then and Now0
The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws0
Still Searching: A Black Family’s Quest for Equality and Recognition during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era0
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
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
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
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
“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
“Like Home”: Gerrymandering the Physical Public Sphere in Female Journalist Narratives0
1898 and Its Aftermath: America’s Imperial Influence0
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
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 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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Legislating Morality in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Moral Panic and the “White Slave” Case That Changed America0
Organizing Minds and Managing People: J.P. Morgan Bankers on Transatlantic Consolidation of Communication and Capital, 1917–19200
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The Fragility of Coal Miner Unionism in Gilded Age America - Dana M. Caldemeyer Union Renegades: Miners, Capitalism, and Organizing in the Gilded Age. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. viii0
Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star as Counter-Narrative for American Indian History-Telling0
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On Democracy and Trash - Patricia Strach, and Sullivan Kathleen S.. The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 246 0
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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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 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
The Golden Age of Pragmatic Socialism: Wisconsin Socialists at the State Level, 1919–370
James Garfield, Racial Justice, and Republican Party Politics - Benjamin T Arrington. The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. 232 p0
Christian Socialism in California - Stephen E. Barton J. Stitt Wilson: Socialist, Christian, Mayor of Berkeley. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Historical Society, 2021. ix+368 pp. $29.99 (hardcover), ISBN 970
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
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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
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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
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
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