Alan Lessoff | Note From The Editor | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 5.3

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Alan Lessoff | Note From The Editor | Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era, 5.3 | The History Cooperative

Note From The Editor

On the theory that in summer people take time for detailed reading, this issue presents two extended articles rather than three standard-sized ones. The first, by Richard Schneirov, takes on a glaring historiographic problem: When did the Gilded Age begin and end, and why do we delimit it that way? Whereas most of us seem to assign periods to history either unreflectively or for implicit reasons, Schneirov derives an explicit rationale for defining the Gilded Age as roughly 1873–1898 from the history of political economy. We invited comments from two historians: James Huston, who has used ideas drawn from political economy to divide the American nineteenth century in different ways; and Rebecca Edwards, who has in several venues called for abolishing the term "Gilded Age" as hopelessly misleading. When wearing my historian hat, I tend to sympathize with Edwards's suggestion that as a periodization device, "Gilded Age" may be irredeemable, because connotations weigh so heavily upon it. As an editor, I worry about our stationery budget, our listings in indexes, and so on. So I will go on record as favoring compensation to this journal should the profession ever undertake to prohibit further production, distribution, and use of the Gilded Age.

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