Graduate Student Blog Contest Extended!

Our Graduate Student Blog contest is underway! We’ve extended the submission date to Sunday, August 3, 2025. All the information below remains the same; check it out and send us your paper! Light The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest, now in its ninth year, exists to support graduate students in exploring short form, […]

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Digital Summer School: Detroit and Voices from the Grassroots

By Peter Blackmer Editor’s note: This is the third post in our annual Digital Summer School for 2025, where we highlight projects in the digital humanities. You can read other posts in the series here. In early 2013, Michigan governor Rick Snyder declared a financial emergency in Detroit, which gave him the power under a […]

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Digital Summer School–Mapping Philadelphia Sexuality: The Queer Philly Mapping Project

Editor’s note: This is the second post in our annual Digital Summer School for 2025, in which we highlight projects in the digital humanities. You can read other posts in the series here. Created during a 2024-2025 fellowship at Temple University’s Loretta C. Duckworth Scholar Studio (LCDSS), the Queer Philly Mapping Project explores the spatial […]

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The Grad Student Blogging Contest 2025!

Light The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest, now in its ninth year, exists to support graduate students in exploring short form, publicly-oriented writing in history as a way to teach beyond the classroom, develop marketable skills, and promote the enduring value of the humanities. This year’s theme is Light We are looking for […]

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MacArthur Park’s History of Surveillance, Refusal, and Radical Care

Editor’s note: In anticipation of what we all believe will be a stellar UHA conference this October 9-12 in Los Angeles, we are featuring Los Angeles as our theme this month. This is our sixth and final post; you can see others from this month as well as past pieces on the city here. In […]

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Survival of the Fittest: The Endurance of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles

Fire tower located in Little Tokyo Los Angeles with Otani mural opposite it.

Editor’s note: In anticipation of what we all believe will be a stellar UHA conference this October 9-12 in Los Angeles, we are featuring Los Angeles as our theme this month. This is our fourth post; you can see others from this month as they are published as well as past pieces on the city […]

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