The Gilded Age and Progressive Era

By Michael Patrick Cullinane

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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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Episode Date
121: Speed Capital: Indianapolis Auto Racing and the Making of Modern America
May 20, 2026
120.5 OAH Conference Sampler
May 13, 2026
120: Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet
May 06, 2026
119: Old Women, Race, and Power
Apr 22, 2026
118: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress -- And How to Bring it Back
Apr 08, 2026
117: 2026 SHGAPE Prize Winners
Mar 25, 2026
116: The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds
Mar 11, 2026
115: Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign
Feb 25, 2026
114: The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco
Feb 11, 2026
113 Unforgettable Sacrifice
Jan 28, 2026
112: The Menance of Prosperity
Jan 14, 2026
111: The Best of: Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Dec 30, 2025
110: The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook
Dec 17, 2025
109: Best of: The Allure of Empire
Dec 03, 2025
108: Best of: Oceans of Grain: Wheat, Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S.
Nov 19, 2025
107: Best of: “Gilded? Progressive? Let’s Call the Whole thing Off?"
Nov 05, 2025
106: Recasting the Vote
Oct 22, 2025
105: The Sentimental State
Oct 07, 2025
104: The Voyage of the Edwin Fox
Sep 24, 2025
103: Gilded Age Architect Richard Morris Hunt
Jun 25, 2025
Introducing New Hosts Boyd and Cathleen
Jun 11, 2025
Update!
May 27, 2025
101st Episode: Anniversary and Update
Apr 15, 2025
When Coins were King
Apr 01, 2025
Starlings: The Gilded Age Invasion
Mar 19, 2025
Building the Metropolis
Mar 05, 2025
The Pacific's New Navies
Feb 19, 2025
Roundtable: Native American Studies Today
Feb 05, 2025
Women in the Valley of Kings
Jan 22, 2025
Team of Giants
Jan 08, 2025
Interpreting Christmas
Dec 25, 2024
Constructing Disability
Dec 11, 2024
Learning for Work
Nov 27, 2024
Gilded Age Mythology: A Roundtable
Nov 20, 2024
Spiritualism's Place
Oct 30, 2024
Imposter Heiress
Oct 15, 2024
Oil Cities
Oct 01, 2024
A Wonderful Career in Crime
Sep 17, 2024
Massacre in the Clouds
Sep 03, 2024
Zouave Theaters
Aug 20, 2024
Red Dead History
Aug 06, 2024
American Anarchy
Jul 23, 2024
Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent
Jul 09, 2024
Roundtable: Birth of a Nation
Jun 25, 2024
White Man's Work
Jun 11, 2024
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt
May 28, 2024
Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home
May 14, 2024
Mining the Irish West
Apr 30, 2024
Chasing Beauty
Apr 16, 2024
Missionary Diplomacy
Apr 02, 2024
The Money Kings
Mar 20, 2024
Special Episode: 2 Complicated 4 History
Mar 13, 2024
Pax Economica
Feb 28, 2024
World War I and Modern Intelligence
Feb 14, 2024
Dressed for Freedom
Jan 31, 2024
The Octopus and the Orange
Jan 17, 2024
Feeble Times
Jan 03, 2024
Special Episode: The Gilded Age Cookbook
Dec 21, 2023
The Cost of Free Land
Dec 06, 2023
The Summer of 1876
Nov 22, 2023
1898: Visions and Revisions
Nov 08, 2023
Custer's Trials
Oct 25, 2023
Hangin' Charlie Flinn
Oct 11, 2023
The American Renaissance in Architecture
Sep 27, 2023
The Modern Research University
Sep 12, 2023
The Waves of Empire
Aug 29, 2023
What I Learned in Newport
Aug 15, 2023
The Rough Rider and the Professor
Aug 01, 2023
Race and American Socialism
Jul 18, 2023
The Allure of Empire
Jul 04, 2023
The Wrath to Come
Jun 20, 2023
Making Catholic America
Jun 07, 2023
Citizens of the World
May 23, 2023
The Pinchot Family
May 09, 2023
Special Episode: Historical Fiction
May 02, 2023
A Lynching at Port Jervis
Apr 25, 2023
The Star Route Scandal
Apr 11, 2023
In the Archives
Mar 28, 2023
Child Labor and the Law
Mar 15, 2023
Henry George: Land and Liberty
Mar 01, 2023
The Silver Women
Feb 15, 2023
Special Episode: Disrupting Time
Feb 08, 2023
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Feb 01, 2023
The Politics of Trash
Jan 18, 2023
Edith Wharton: In Morocco
Jan 04, 2023
Special Episode: Five Little Peppers
Dec 21, 2022
The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Mother Jones
Dec 14, 2022
Union Busting in the Gilded Age
Nov 30, 2022
Texas: The Birthplace of Populism
Nov 16, 2022
Food in the Gilded Age
Nov 02, 2022
Who Killed Jane Stanford
Oct 19, 2022
The Mythic China Market and Foreign Banks
Oct 04, 2022
Man of Steel: Grover Cleveland
Sep 20, 2022
Anniversary Episode
Sep 06, 2022
Jay Gould: An American Rascal
Aug 23, 2022
Vivekananda: Guru to the World
Aug 09, 2022
American Crusade
Jul 26, 2022
Diamonds and Deadlines: The Life of Miriam Leslie
Jul 12, 2022
The New Atlantic Order
Jun 28, 2022
Do Pandemics End?: A Roundtable
Jun 14, 2022
Black Indians and Freedmen
Jun 01, 2022
The American Mirror
May 10, 2022
Saving Yellowstone
Apr 26, 2022
The Art of Amalia Küssner
Apr 12, 2022
The Approaching Storm
Mar 29, 2022
Catastrophic Dipomacy
Mar 16, 2022
Oceans of Grain: Wheat, Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S.
Mar 02, 2022
Designs on Empire
Feb 23, 2022
Special Episode: Laird on the Lam
Feb 16, 2022
Early Career Scholars Showcase
Feb 09, 2022
The Silver King George Hearst
Jan 26, 2022
Confederate Monuments in the Gilded Age
Jan 12, 2022
Theodore Roosevelt Double Bill - Religion and Memory
Dec 29, 2021
Christmas Past
Dec 15, 2021
Rotary Clubs and the Culture of Capitalism
Dec 01, 2021
Asian Place, Filipino Nation: Changing Perspectives
Nov 17, 2021
The Age of Acrimony
Nov 03, 2021
From the River to the Sea: The Railroad Wars
Oct 19, 2021
Footnotes: Gilded? Progressive? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Oct 06, 2021
Gilded? Progressive? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Oct 05, 2021
Footnotes: W.E.B. Du Bois and Critical Race Theory
Sep 29, 2021
W. E. B. Du Bois and Critical Race Theory
Sep 28, 2021
Footnotes: Women's Reproductive Rights in the Progressive Era
Sep 15, 2021
Footnotes: Gilded Age Cocktails
Sep 15, 2021
Footnotes: The Last Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919
Sep 15, 2021
Women's Reproductive Rights in the Progressive Era
Sep 14, 2021
Gilded Age Cocktails
Sep 14, 2021
The Last Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919
Sep 14, 2021
Pilot
Sep 07, 2021