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  • 105: The Sentimental State

    105: The Sentimental State
    2025/10/07

    Today Cathleen interviews Elizabeth Garner Masarik, about her book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Created the American Welfare State (University of Georgia Press, 2024), which is the 2025 winner of SHGAPE's H. Wayne Morgan Book Prize. For more information about the Society's three book awards (deadlines in October) see https://www.shgape.org/prizes-awards/


    Books mentioned by Dr. Masarik in today's interview:

    • Katherine G. Aiken, Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883-1925 (University of Tennessee Press, 1998)
    • Brian Balogh, The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
    • Regina Kunzel, Fallen Women, Problem Girls: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945 (Yale UP, 1993)
    • Rickie Solinger, Wake up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade (Routledge, 1992)
    • Molly Ladd Taylor, Raising a Baby the Government Way: Mothers’ Letters to the Children’s Bureau, 1915-1932 (Rutgers University Press, 1986)
    • Jane Tomkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 (Oxford UP, 1985)

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  • 104: The Voyage of the Edwin Fox

    104: The Voyage of the Edwin Fox
    2025/09/24
    Hello listeners! Boyd and Cathleen are back and looking forward to giving you more regular content this fall. This week, Cathleen interviews Boyd about his recent book, The Voyage of the Edwin Fox: How An Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization (UNC 2023). In this sweeping story of globalization seen from the deck of an ordinary ship, the small details, individual people, and multiple connections that made up this tumultuous moment in history become clear.

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  • 103: Gilded Age Architect Richard Morris Hunt

    103: Gilded Age Architect Richard Morris Hunt
    2025/06/25

    In this episode, Boyd and Cathleen talk to Leslie Jones, Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator at The Preservation Society of Newport County, about the society's new exhibit: Richard Morris Hunt: In A New Light. Through the conversation we learned more about this important Gilded Age architect and his vision for American national identity that visible through his architectural projects, the organizations he helped found, and the large collection of his papers, many of which are on display here. The exhibit will run from May 30 – November 2, 2025 at Rosecliff Mansion in Newport.

    For more information, follow this link: https://www.newportmansions.org/events/richard-morris-hunt-in-a-new-light/


    One book that Leslie Jones mentioned, was Sam Waters's The Gilded Life of Richard Morris Hunt, which can be found here: https://gilesltd.com/product/gilded-life-richard-morris-hunt

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    44 分
  • Introducing New Hosts Boyd and Cathleen

    Introducing New Hosts Boyd and Cathleen
    2025/06/11
    Cathleen Cahill and Boyd Cothran introduce themselves and lay out their plans for the Gilded Age & Progressive Era podcast over the next few months, including an upcoming interview with Leslie Jones, curator of the Newport Preservation Society's new exhibit about Gilded Age architect Richard Morris Hunt. Cathleen and Boyd also offer their gratitude to podcast creator and former host, Michael Cullinane, for trusting them with the podcast. They also thank former podcast intern Michael Connolly from Loyola University in Chicago; H-SHGAPE List Editor and host of another great podcast, Dig History, Elizabeth Masarik; and SHGAPE president ,Stacy Cordery, for their advice. Finally, they give their new contact information and invite feedback about the podcast and future episodes. Cathleen can be reached at cdcahill@psu.edu and is active on LinkedIn (Cathleen Cahill) and BlueSky (cathleendcahill.bsky.social) while Boyd can be reached at cothran@yorku.ca. Finally, the podcast's website can be found at https://www.shgape.org/the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era-podcast/

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    8 分
  • Update!

    Update!
    2025/05/27

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    3 分
  • 101st Episode: Anniversary and Update

    101st Episode: Anniversary and Update
    2025/04/15
    This episode marks the show's anniversary and after nearly five years of production, host Michael Patrick Cullinane explains where the show might go from here.

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    9 分
  • When Coins were King

    When Coins were King
    2025/04/01

    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 Coins Were King and how the bonanza in mines had a reaction in the Treasury.


    Essential Reading:


    Michael Moran, When Coins Were King (2025).

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    47 分
  • Starlings: The Gilded Age Invasion

    Starlings: The Gilded Age Invasion
    2025/03/19

    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 continent in the 1880s. The environmental history of the Starling is a story about hubris and the unintended consequences of human meddling with non-native species. Author Mike Stark joins me to discuss his latest book on the topic.


    Essential Reading:


    Mike Stark: Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird (2025).


    Recommended Reading:


    Joel Greenberg, A Feathered River across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction (2014).


    Andrea L. Smalley and Henry M. Reeves, The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850–1920 (2022).


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    37 分