Swiss Paraplegic Athletes: How Para-Athletics in Switzerland Addresses Urban Disability.

October 31, 2023.Reading time 35 minutes.

This is the fifth installment to our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability, an exploration of the role cities and their residents have played in the expansions of disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. By Dan Holland Sport has long been the leading edge of social […]

The UK, UPIAS, and Transatlantic Disability Rights

October 24, 2023.Reading time 15 minutes.

This is the fourth installment to our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability, an exploration of the role cities and their residents have played in the expansions of disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. By Lisa Varty As a disabled person myself, I have an interest […]

The History of Disability Rights in Washington, DC

October 17, 2023.Reading time 32 minutes.

This is the third installment of our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability, an exploration of the role cities and their residents have played in the expansion of disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. By Patricia Chadwick Disability history is woven throughout the history of civil […]

Announcing the Winner of the Seventh Annual UHA/The Metropole Grad Student Blogging Contest

October 11, 2023.Reading time 6 minutes.

In order to further the ability of emerging historians to use online platforms to teach beyond the classroom, market scholarship, and promote the enduring value of the humanities, The Metropole/UHA established the Graduate Student Blogging Contest in 2017. This year, our theme was Stumble; we asked students to submit pieces about efforts in urbanism that have stumbled […]

Historicizing Disability and the City

October 10, 2023.Reading time 18 minutes.

By Nate Holdren This is the second post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. In 1966, attorney and disability activist Jacobus tenBroek published “The Right to Live in the World.” The brilliant California Law Review article ranges widely in its […]

Fighting for Rights: An Overview of Urban Disability

October 3, 2023.Reading time 48 minutes.

This is the first post in our theme for October 2023, Urban Disability focusing on the role of cities in fostering disability rights. See here for a listing of all the posts published on this topic. In her 2020 memoir Being Huemann, pioneering disability rights activist Judith Heumann recounted her adolescent experiences in New York […]

Grad Student Blogging Contest 2023 Roundup

September 28, 2023.Reading time 15 minutes.

For those of us over forty, and particularly for folks from the middle, few bands loom as large as The Replacements, the greatest band that never was. Paul Westerberg and his bandmates stumbled their way across the country, releasing one quality, ramshackle album after another, full of pathos, humor, and grief, all while undermining their […]

Yan Zongo: A Research Note on Accra’s Strangers

September 19, 2023.Reading time 19 minutes.

The ninth and final post from our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest is from Fauziyatu Moro. She writes about how stumbling onto the important mementos of immigrants, while doing fieldwork in Accra, led her to develop her thesis topic, which broadens understanding of the lives of migrants by looking at their leisure activities. To see […]

Stumbling Upon Stillburg: Using Memory and Research to Revive a Forgotten Architectural Career

September 14, 2023.Reading time 24 minutes.

Inga Gudmundsson McGuire writes about how discovering that her ancestor was a Pittsburgh architect inspired her to learn more about him and ensure that his memory and legacy are not forgotten in the eighth entry in our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest. To see all entries from this year’s contest check out our round up […]

Annexation Politics & Manufacturing Blight in a Black St. Louis Suburb

September 12, 2023.Reading time 26 minutes.

The seventh entry in this year’s Graduate Student Blogging Contest is by Bridget Laramie Kelly, who won last year’s blogging contest. In this year’s entry, she writes about how a historic Black suburb was perceived by wealthier white residents as a “stumbling block” in the way of protecting and increasing property values. To see all […]