The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE), in cooperation with Cambridge University Press. The journal contains original essays and reviews of scholarly books on all aspects of U.S. history for the time period from 1865 through the 1920s.
SHGAPE members and institutional subscribers have full access to digital editions of the journal and addition digital content via our site at Cambridge Journals Online.
For instructions on how to submit an article to the Journal, see here.
For information on book reviews, see here
In addition to the formal publications of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, SHGAPE.org publishes digital material that builds upon our print journal or otherwise relates to its mission. We are especially interested in fostering online scholarly and pedagogical dialogue concerning all forms of United States history from 1865 to the 1920s. To view our online content, see JGAPE Digital and the SHGAPE Blog.
The current editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is Brian Ingrassia, bingrassia@wtamu.edu.
Brian Ingrassia is an Associate Professor of History and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American West at West Texas A & M University. He is the author of the prize-winning Rise of Gridiron University: Higher Education’s Uneasy Alliance with Big-Time Football (University Press of Kansas, 2012) and Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America (forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press), in addition to numerous articles and essays. He currently serves as series editor of the Sports & Popular Culture Series at the University of Tennessee Press.
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Membership in SHGAPE affords you a place in the primary professional network of Gilded Age and Progressive Era scholars. Your membership gains you entry into a vibrant and growing community and helps to advance your understanding of a critical period in American history. As a self-supporting organization, SHGAPE depends on its members to continue its current activities and take on new initiatives
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