Home - SHGAPE Presenting the Past 1865 1920s Welcome to SHGAPE The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is an organization of historians who study and promote knowledge of American history from the Reconstruction era through the aftermath of World War I. The society brings together academic public and independent historians as well as scholars in other humanities and socialscience disciplines interested in these decades and their issues. Recent Books by Members Woodrow Wilsons Wars Woodrow Wilsonspresidentialadministration 19131921 was marked not only byAmericasparticipationinWorld WarIbut also by numerous armed interventionsby the UnitedStatesinothercountries. Spanning the globe these actions includedthe yearslong occupations of Haiti and the Dominican Republica border war with Mexicoand the use Read More Habit Forming Drug Addiction in America 17761914 Habit Forming Drug Addiction in America 17761914 by Elizabeth Kelly Gray explores American drug use and drug policy through the era when regulation was ineffective at the state level and nonexistent at the national level.