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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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By Ryan Reft It was late afternoon on August 29, 1970, when Rosalío Muñoz, chairman of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee (NCMC) stood before thousands of people under a hot southern California summer sun. He was briefly triumphant, having stewarded the nation’s largest ever Mexican American protest and the largest by a single ethnic group, […]
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Editor’s note: The interview below was conducted as part of the project Urban Palisades: Technology in the Making of Santa Fe, Mexico City, directed by Diana Montaño and David Pretel. Additionally, this interview was carried out in Spanish and previously published at Artefactos. Revista De Estudios Filosóficos Sobre Ciencia Y Tecnología, 13(2), 309–333. By Reynaldo […]
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Our Graduate Student Blog contest is underway! We’ve extended the submission date to Sunday, August 3, 2025. All the information below remains the same; check it out and send us your paper! Light The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest, now in its ninth year, exists to support graduate students in exploring short form, […]
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By Peter Blackmer Editor’s note: This is the third post in our annual Digital Summer School for 2025, where we highlight projects in the digital humanities. You can read other posts in the series here. In early 2013, Michigan governor Rick Snyder declared a financial emergency in Detroit, which gave him the power under a […]
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Editor’s note: This is the second post in our annual Digital Summer School for 2025, in which we highlight projects in the digital humanities. You can read other posts in the series here. Created during a 2024-2025 fellowship at Temple University’s Loretta C. Duckworth Scholar Studio (LCDSS), the Queer Philly Mapping Project explores the spatial […]
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Editor’s note: This is the first post in our annual Digital Summer School, where we highlight projects in the digital humanities. You can read other posts in the series here. 1. What led you to this project? Or in other words, what sparked your interest and what drove you to create it? As an MA […]
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Editor’s note: In anticipation of what we all believe will be a stellar UHA conference this October 9-12 in Los Angeles, we featured Los Angeles as our theme in May. With the conference still in mind, we want to continue to highlight the city in the run up to the event; you can see other […]
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