Museum Mice and Pizza Rats: Evolution of the City

March 15, 2023.Reading time 34 minutes.

Editor’s note: This post part of our theme for March 2023, Science City, an exploration of the ways cities and science have interacted over time and around the world. By Nuala Caomhánach The concerned look on their faces was enough to make me turn around and go home. Standing at the doorway of my shared […]

Astronomy on the Flats: How the Moons of Mars and the Death of a President Altered the Late Nineteenth-Century Washington, DC, Landscape

March 8, 2023.Reading time 40 minutes.

Editor’s note: This post is part of our theme for March 2023, Science City, an exploration of the ways cities and science have interacted over time and around the world. By Vincent Femia Simon Newcomb often arose from his bed in the middle of the night to walk two miles to the Naval Observatory grounds. […]

Science and the City: An Overview and Bibliography

March 1, 2023.Reading time 69 minutes.

A sepia-tone image showing a lab with two large, curtained windows, a clock hanging on the wall between them, and desks dotted with lab equipment. A desk in the foreground has a tray with a rabbit-sized animal lying belly-up. It is set in a decorative frame and has a black university stamp on the lower right-hand corner

Editor’s note: This is the first post in our theme for March 2023, Science City, an exploration of the ways cities and science have interacted over time and around the world. By Can Gümüş-İspir and Marianne Dhenin When Egyptian engineer and administrator Ali Mubarak traveled to Paris in the 1860s, he took a much-anticipated tour […]

Raised by the Rust Belt: The Power of Emplaced Humanities

February 22, 2023.Reading time 14 minutes.

By Katharine G. Trostel and Valentino L. Zullo The work of the Rust Belt Humanities Institute at Ursuline College is rooted in imagining and co-creating new futures. As two native Clevelanders (raised by the Rust Belt) teaching at a local institution—the majority of our students are firmly anchored in the greater Cleveland region—we occupy a […]

Constructed Space in the Hill District: Black Urban Appalachia and the Making and Remaking of Pittsburgh

January 30, 2023.Reading time 17 minutes.

Editor’s note: In anticipation of the Urban History Association’s 2023 conference being held in Pittsburgh from October 26 – October 29, The Metropole is making the Steel City its Metropolis of the Month for January 2023. The CFP remains open until February 20, 2023. See here for details. By Jessica Klanderud Years ago, as I […]

Social Movements, Communities, and Campaigns in Pittsburgh

January 25, 2023.Reading time 19 minutes.

Erased and Forgotten Sports History in Pittsburgh’s Crossroads of the World

January 18, 2023.Reading time 31 minutes.

Life in the ’Burgh: A Steel City Bibliography of Pittsburgh

January 11, 2023.Reading time 50 minutes.

Member of the Week: Michael Innis-Jiménez

December 29, 2022.Reading time 4 minutes.

Michael Innis-Jiménez Professor Department of American Studies University of Alabama Please describe your current research. What about it drew your interest? My current research examines the centrality of culturally distinct Mexican food, restaurants, grocery stores, and other marketplaces in the early development of Mexican Chicago after World War I. I’m looking to demonstrate how public shops, […]

Best of 2022: All the Rest—Best Moment, Podcast, and More Miscellany from the Past 12 Months.

December 21, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

Best Moment 2022 Avigail Oren (senior co-editor): I will never not laugh at my local TV news station’s gaffe in March, when they prematurely put up a graphic about the State of the Union at the exact moment when the anchor began a segment on a 71-year old sex offender. It’s not quite at the […]