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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 Boyd Cothran, professor of U.S. and Global history at York University, and Cathleen D. Cahill, Walter L. Ferree and Helen P. Ferree Professor in Middle-American History at Penn State University.

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Latest Episodes:

Footnotes: The Last Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919 Sep 15, 2021

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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 Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 (2nd ed., 2003).
Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (2010).
Roundtable with Christopher McKnight Nichols, Nancy Bristow, E. Thomas Ewing, Joseph M. Gabriel, Benjamin C. Montoya and Elizabeth Outka “Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, no. 4: 642-672.
Elizabeth Outka, Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature (2019).
Kenneth Davis, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War (2018).

Host Suggestion:

Sarah Churchwell, Behold America: The Entangled History of America First and the American Dream (2019).

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Women's Reproductive Rights in the Progressive Era Sep 14, 2021

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The Progressive Era shaped the way we think about women's reproductive rights, and Prof. Barbara Schneider's book Corporal Rhetoric investigates all the ways. It tells how motherhood went from a natural experience to a pathogenic one, how the eugenics movement gathered steam, and how the medical profession changed.

Essential Reading:

Barbara Schneider, Corporal Rhetoric: Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era (2021).

Additional Reading:

Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty (1998).

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Gilded Age Cocktails Sep 14, 2021

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In this episode I talk cocktails with Cecelia Tichi the author of so many wonderful books, but most recently Gilded Age Cocktails. Tichi shares stories of the bars, mixologists, and imbibers that gloried in the Golden Age of drinking, not long before Prohibition.

Essential Reading:

Cecelia Tichi, Golden Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age (2021).