The Metropole Bookshelf: Jacek Blaszkiewicz and “Fanfare for a City”

The Metropole Bookshelf is an opportunity for authors of forthcoming or recently published books to let the UHA community know about their new work in the field. My new book, Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris, begins and ends with boulevard inaugurations. I don’t mean inaugurations taking place on […]

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Jobs Jobs Jobs – The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board

It’s no secret that the job market for Americanist historians of the twentieth century in academia is somewhere between a tire fire and hot garbage ablaze on a random barge floating across the ocean. While The Metropole is not a jobs board, it doesn’t hurt to shine a light on lesser known, but very good, […]

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