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 with the joint sponsorship and support of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. The Journal publishes original essays and reviews scholarly books on all aspects of U.S. history for the time period from 1865 through 1920.

The editor is Alan Lessoff, Professor of History, Illinois State University. Associate Editor Scott Nelson is Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. The book review editor is Nancy C. Unger, Associate Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University. The editors work with a 16-member editorial board of senior and junior scholars representing the various fields of study within Gilded Age and Progressive Era scholarship.

The Journal encourages submissions in every field of scholarly inquiry, including (though not limited to) politics and government, social and cultural history, business, economic, and labor history, international relations, comparative and transnational history, issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, legal, intellectual, and religious history, science and medicine, technology, the arts, and material culture, rural and urban history, and regional history. Public historians and independent scholars as well as academic historians are invited to submit, as are social scientists working on historical issues and scholars in American Studies. Submissions from graduate students are welcome.