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Editor’s note: This is the third installment in The Metropole’s theme for November: Metropolitan Consumption. All other entries for the theme can be found here. By Matthew King On any given day, in any season or weather, the Wisconsin Dells’ indoor water parks are voracious, consuming over 16 million gallons of water and untold megawatts […]
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Editor’s note: This it the second post in our series for November, “Metropolitan Consumption.” All other entries for the theme can be found here. By Clif Stratton Atlanta will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Summerhill Riot (hereafter Summerhill Rebellion) in 2026.[1] The spontaneous revolt of the urban poor occurred on September 6, 1966 after […]
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Editor’s note: All entries for the November 2025 theme, Metropolitan Consumption can be viewed here. By Ryan Reft It’s no secret that cities and their residents consume. They are critical markets for food, consumer goods, retail products, leisure, and services. They swallow land and sometimes, in that process, people; just ask Bronx residents who Robert […]
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This year’s contest, The Metropole’s ninth, saw entries that considered the topic of “Light” from widely ranging perspectives, and both of this year’s entrants drew praise from the judges for “using the looseness of the blog format to make connections that might be harder in a more rule-bound academic article.” Alexandra Miller’s “Playing With Fire: […]
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This post is an entry in our ninth annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest. This year’s theme is “Light.” By Charlotte Leib “Surely you’ve heard about the penguins,” behavioral ecologist Joanna Burger remarks. I am speaking with Burger, a Distinguished Professor of Biology at Rutgers, because I’ve reached an impasse—the historian’s equivalent of night. I’ve been […]
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By Genevieve Carpio Being a historian often means living with the contradictions of the present. As an Angeleno, I see my city in pain. There is resilience and courage too, but the suffering caused by the recent immigration raids is suffocating. As a professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, and as a Latina going […]
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A NiCHE/Metropole Blog Series Proposal Deadline: October 24, 2025 Draft Deadline: December 1, 2025 Series Publication: January/February 2025 The Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE) and The Metropole – The Official Blog of the Urban History Association are soliciting submissions for Urban and Environmental Dialogues, a series that will explore how the environment-at-large and […]
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This post is an entry in our ninth annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest. This year’s theme is “Light.” By Alexandra Miller BOOM! The sound of the explosion “Shook the houses broke Window panes and caused a great excitement among the respectable portion of the tenants” of the midtown Manhattan neighborhood around the corner of 56th […]
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With UHA2025 just around the corner next month, historian Elaine Lewinnek, with assistance from Elsa DeVienne, offers some tips of the trade for conducting walking tours and tours generally. Sign up for LA tours at this year’s UHA here! By Elaine Lewinnek The spatialized nature of urban history often means we end up leading tours […]
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Editor’s note: With UHA2025 just around the corner next month, historians Elaine Lewinnek and Daniela Sheinin offer some tips for getting the most out of an academic conference. See here for the conference program and the various tours available. By Elaine Lewinnek & Daniela Sheinin Academic conferences can feel intimidating. At our first academic conferences, […]
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