The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a free podcast about the seismic transitions that took place in the United States from the 1870s to 1920s. It's for students, teachers, researchers, history buffs, and anyone who wants to learn more about how our past connects us to the present. It is hosted by...
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105: The Sentimental State
Today Cathleen interviews Elizabeth Garner Masarik, about her book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Created the American Welfare State (Un...
104: The Voyage of the Edwin Fox
Hello listeners! Boyd and Cathleen are back and looking forward to giving you more regular content this fall. This week, Cathleen interviews Boyd abou...
103: Gilded Age Architect Richard Morris Hunt
In this episode, Boyd and Cathleen talk to Leslie Jones, Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator at The Preservation Society of Newport County, a...
Introducing New Hosts Boyd and Cathleen
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101st Episode: Anniversary and Update
This episode marks the show's anniversary and after nearly five years of production, host Michael Patrick Cullinane explains where the show might go f...
When Coins were King
In the Gilded Age, the coinage of gold and silver had real implications for the economy. Mike Moran joins the show to discuss his latest book When Coi...
Starlings: The Gilded Age Invasion
Have you ever hated a bird? Pigeons might come to mind, but America's most hated bird is the European Starling and they got their start on the contine...
Building the Metropolis
Construction history is entirely unfamiliar to most scholars, and yet it is a crucial part of urban history. Alexander Wood joins the show to discuss...
The Pacific's New Navies
Context is crucial and perspective is everything. Dr. Tommy Jamison's debut book about the growth of naval power in the Pacific is a wonderful additio...
Roundtable: Native American Studies Today
Three expert scholars join the show to discuss the state of the field. My thanks to Dr. Cahill, Dr. Cothran, and Dr. Sweet. They have compiled importa...
Women in the Valley of Kings
Who are the people who unearthed Egyptian antiquities and brought them to Western museums? Besides the countless male archaeologists we've heard about...
Team of Giants
The Spanish-American War has a central place in the history of American empire; it also launched the careers of Theodore Roosevelt, William Randolph H...
Interpreting Christmas
With the holidays upon us, let's take a closer look at the Gilded Age traditions that define Christmas and other end-of-year celebrations. Joining me...
Constructing Disability
The Great War transformed the world order, and it also revolutionized societies and individual experiences. In one of the year's most interesting book...
Learning for Work
With the industrial revolution came a revolution in the education of Americans. In this episode, Connie Goddard discusses her latest book on the indus...
Gilded Age Mythology: A Roundtable
Presidential elections often serve as periodic demarcations from one historical epoch to another. 1876 has often been seen as the beginning of the Gil...
Spiritualism's Place
What do philanthropist Jane Stanford, author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln have in common? They all conducted séances. Spir...
Imposter Heiress
I often say how similar the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is like our contemporary times. With this show, I take it back. Cassie Chadwick was able to...
Oil Cities
The heyday of the boomtowns of Northern Louisiana is long since passed, but their mark on the geography and environment still lingers. Henry Wiencek j...
A Wonderful Career in Crime
While the Gilded Age led to the rise of robber barons and railroad tycoons, it also led to the proliferation of another type of character, the con art...
Massacre in the Clouds
In early March 1906, the United States Army and the Filipino Constabulary attacked a insurgent outpost of Moros on the island of Jolo. Over 1,000 men,...
Zouave Theaters
During the nineteenth century, the Zouave was everywhere. The uniform characterized by an open, collarless jacket, baggy trousers, and a fez, originat...
Red Dead History
Red Dead Redemption 2 is one of the best-selling video games of all time, but what is the history behind the game? Dr. Tore C. Olsson joins us to talk...
American Anarchy
What is anarchy? In the Gilded Age, the United States felt the convulsions of several radical ideologies, but none as violent and complex as the anarc...
Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent
The Gilded Age West was a place to disappear for some. For Ray Hamilton and Jake Sargent - men from distinguished eastern families that sought privacy...
Roundtable: Birth of a Nation
One of the most controversial and innovative motion pictures in American history is D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation about the end of the Civil War,...
White Man's Work
The intersections of race and class or work and power has tantalizing effects on our understanding of history. It can reshape our appreciation of soci...
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt
This episode is a feed drop from the Brattleboro Literary Cocktail Hour, a monthly event hosted by the Brattleboro Literary Festival. I am in conversa...
Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home
SHOW SPONSOR SHGAPE & The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era:
I have never thought of funeral directors as the preservationists of...
Mining the Irish West
The Irish are best known for migrating to American cities along the east coast, notably Boston and New York. Dr. Alan Noonan joins the show to explain...
Chasing Beauty
There are a few people that embody a period. Isabella Stewart Gardner knew many of the the movers and shakers of the Gilded Age and lived from 1840-19...
Missionary Diplomacy
Thousands of Christian missionaries left the United States in search of souls to save. They often found trouble. And almost always became non-governm...
The Money Kings
Jacob Schiff, Joseph Seligman, Marcus Goldman, and the Lehman Brothers have one thing in common. All were Jewish immigrants who made a fortune as fina...
Special Episode: 2 Complicated 4 History
In this special episode, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era is taken over by popular podcast 2 Complicated 4 History and hosts Dr Lynn Price Robbins a...
Pax Economica
Economics might study trade, commerce, and financial markets, but the discipline explores human interaction as much as any other subject. The idea of...
World War I and Modern Intelligence
When did modern intelligence gathering begin? The Gilded Age, of course. Dr. Mark Stout joins the show to discuss his book World War I and the Foundat...
Dressed for Freedom
The white dresses of suffragists stand out as one example of women's fashion that made a statement. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox joins the show to discuss he...
The Octopus and the Orange
The rise of the Southern Pacific Railroad in California owes a great deal to the citrus industry and vice versa. Ben Jenkins joins the show to discuss...
Feeble Times
How much can a president do to shepherd the economy? The question has bedevilled the inhabitants of the White House since the office came into being,...