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If you find yourself in Northern Virginia and you feel a burgeoning hunger in your belly, you won’t find many better spots for Korean and Vietnamese food. Swing down to Annandale for the former (maybe check out Honey Pig) and over to Falls Church for the latter, where Eden Center has numerous sumptuous options. The […]
Read MoreMichael Glass Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University @m_r_glass Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? As a former New York City high school teacher, I’ve long been interested in educational inequality. For my M.A. thesis, I studied the 1950s school desegregation movement in Harlem, portions of which were recently published in the JUH. […]
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Amazon’s search for a second headquarters has sparked widespread debate over the public costs of subsidizing private real estate. Critics question whether cash-strapped and socially divided cities should be spending billions on services for expensive office and residential projects. Supporters respond that these subsidies ultimately provide cities with much-needed tax revenue by encouraging property development. […]
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This morning we are briefly departing from our usual coverage on The Metropole to reflect on the intersection of pedagogy and current events. In this post, co-editor Avigail Oren comments on her experience in the classroom following the attack at Tree of Life. On Monday, October 22, I began teaching a half-semester course at Carnegie Mellon […]
Read MoreCarl Abbott Emeritus Professor Portland State University Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I’m currently working on City Planning: A Very Short Introduction, an entry in an Oxford University Press series which tackles broad topics in 35,000 words [!]. I’m drawing on thirty-plus years teaching in our graduate urban and regional […]
Read MoreIt is with great regret that the Urban History Association acknowledges the passing Washington University history professor Margaret Garb. In her memory, we are running the obituary published on Dec. 20, 2018 on the Washington University website, The Source. By Liam Otten Margaret Garb, professor of history in Arts & Sciences and co-director of the […]
Read MoreKara Murphy Schlichting Assistant Professor of History Queens College, City University of New York Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? I thought I would be an environmental historian of the American West, particularly the Utah desert (really). But my first year in graduate school at Rutgers reinforced to me that environment was also everyday […]
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Klinenberg, Eric. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life. (New York, New York: Crown, 2018). 336 pp. $28. ISBN 978-1-5247-6116-5 By Jacob Bruggeman Americans today consistently hear about the differences in wealth, geography, identity and politics that divide us, but they hear rather less […]
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Growing up in and around Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s, one witnessed the city’s incomplete political transformation. Mayor Harold Washington’s 1983 victory propelled him to City Hall where during his brief but impactful tenure he began dismantling the Democratic machine built under Anton Cermak during the 1930s and consolidated by Richard J. Daley in […]
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Let the editors at The Metropole wish you a Happy New Year! Only a few hours into 2019 and with #AHA19 on the very near horizon, we wanted to ring in the decade’s final year with a reminder that for those of you attending #AHA19 (and by extension #MLA19), don’t miss the Urban History Meet […]
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