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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 20h

Genevieve Carpio’s work is a great example of how insurance data can be an illuminating means to understand the past, from urban planning to historical discrimination, and all the different ways insurers assess and imagine “risk.”

Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 1d

The road has long been tumultuous for Latinos in places like California, as a site where the private space of the automobile and the public space of the street meet. @drgenacarpio.bsky.social on CA car insurance and the cultural history of race, redlining, and risk assessment.

California’s Invisible Infrastructure: What Auto Insurance Tells Us about Race, Risk, and Responsibility

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…

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 1d

The Metropole is collaborating with @nichecanada.bsky.social on a series dedicated to the dialogue between environmentalism and urbanism. Check out the call!

UHA/NiCHE Collaborative Call for Papers: Urban and Environmental Dialogues

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) …

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 1d

The road has long been tumultuous for Latinos in places like California, as a site where the private space of the automobile and the public space of the street meet. @drgenacarpio.bsky.social on CA car insurance and the cultural history of race, redlining, and risk assessment.

California’s Invisible Infrastructure: What Auto Insurance Tells Us about Race, Risk, and Responsibility

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…

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Maggie McNulty @maggiemcnulty.bsky.social · 1d

En route to @urbanhistorya.bsky.social in LA

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 1d

The @urbanhistorya.bsky.social conference begins this week (on Thurs) in downtown Los Angeles. Conference info: www.urbanhistory.org/uha2025 #HistorySky #skystorians #UHA2025

Here are a few more panels discussing SoCal & #LosAngelesHistory: ⬇️

Description for the "Making the New Deal Visible in Los Angeles" panel.

Description for the roundtable titled "Indigenous Urban Landscapes of Southern California"

Description for the "Stories from Sunset Over Sunset: Urban Histories of Change through the Lens of Ed Ruscha" panel.

Description for the "Reimagining the Settler City: Spatial Surveillance and Inequality in Los Angeles" panel.

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 3d

We'll also be in L.A. this week for the
@urbanhistorya.bsky.social
conference where we'll be exhibitng books from 16 publishers. You can find us in the Gold Room of the Biltmore Hotel. #uha2025 #urbanhistory

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 3d

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possib...

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Temple University Press @templeunivpress.bsky.social · 5d

Shipping books out to the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social meeting October 8-11 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Visit us in the Book Exhibit Room!

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 7d

Also check out Alex's 2023 entry on parks reformer Mable E. Macomber who saw her chief goal as "the managed and healthy development of children, with playgrounds as the vehicle" and believing it “pathetically necessary,” for greater numbers of parks within such densely populated areas.

The Neighborhood Nuisance: One Woman’s Crusade to Shape Brooklyn

For our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest, we asked for stories about projects that faced “stumbling blocks.” There were a multitude of them placed in the path of Mabel E. Macomber…

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 7d

Today we kick off our Graduate Student Blog Contest for 2025. George Mason's Alexandra Miller kicks us off with a look at the intersection of adolescence, civic expectations, and the scourge of urban America, fireworks in early 20th century NYC

Playing with Fire: Pyrotechnic New York Youth at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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 b…

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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 8d

We are honoring Mike Davis at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social UHA Conference 2025 in Los Angeles.

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We Are Honoring Mike Davis at the Urban History Association Conference 2025 in Los Angeles

We’re honoring Mike Davis at the Urban History Association Conference 2025. Urban History Association Conference 2025 Metropolitan Majorities: UHA 11th Biennial Conference The Biltmore Los An…

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 8d

We are thrilled to announce our new colloboration with The Metropole - @urbanhistorya.bsky.social - Urban and Environmental Dialogues

Send us your proposals for this new urban #envhist series by 24 October!

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#urbanhistory #urbanstudies #urban #envhum

Call for Proposals - Urban and Environmental Dialogues

Urban and Environmental Dialogues will explore how the environment-at-large and the urban built environment have shaped one another throughout history.

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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 15d

See you at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social conference in LA, Becky!

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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 16d

We're honoring Mike Davis at UHA in LA.

Urban History Association Conference 2025
Metropolitan Majorities: UHA 11th Biennial Conference
Biltmore LA, Oct 9-12, 2025

Cities of Quartz: How Mike Davis Transformed Urban Studies (Roundtable)
Sat, Oct 11th, 1:15-2:45pm

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Cities of Quartz: How Mike Davis Transformed Urban Studies

We’re honoring Mike Davis at UHA in LA. Urban History Association Conference 2025 Metropolitan Majorities: UHA 11th Biennial Conference The Biltmore Los Angeles in Downtown LA, October 9-12, …

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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 16d

Join us at the UHA Conference 2025 in LA.

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 23d

Urban history folk, any helpers on this q?

At the European Association for Urban History 2022 in Antwerp, someone gave a paper on a digital history project, reconstructing Haussmann-era Paris. It was a panel which also had Richard Rodger, I think. The EAUH website has scrubbed the programme...

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 25d

The new and more prohibitive guidelines around COVID-19 vaccines mean fewer people will get vaccinated and more will die. For @truthout.org, I spoke to folks across the country about their efforts to find a vaccine and what the access barriers mean to them.

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FDA Guidelines on COVID-19 Vaccines Are Throwing Those Most at Risk Into Despair

“There’s a lot of misinformation, and nobody seems to know what’s going on,” a resident of Missouri said.

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 26d

Oct 9–12: Urban History Association is hosting its biennial conference in Los Angeles (at the Biltmore Hotel). @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's conference program: www.urbanhistory.org/resources/Do... #AcademicSky

A couple of #LosAngeleshistory sessions:

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 26d

Historian Elaine Lewinnek (with help from @elsadevienne.bsky.social) discusses tips for conducting historical walking tours (with links to tours still available for #UHA2025 in Los Angeles Oct 9-12) themetropole.blog/2025/09/11/u...

UHA 2025: Tips for Engaging Tours

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 u…

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 28d

Historians Elaine Lewinnek & Daniela Sheinin offer some advice on attending the Urban History Association's 2025 conference in Los Angeles this year, October 9-12 #UHA2025: themetropole.blog/2025/09/10/u...

UHA2025: Advice for Attending Academic Conferences

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 …

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · Sep 4

The @nursingclio.bsky.social Reader comes out next week. It has been the honor of my academic life to be involved with this brilliant public history project. The personal is always historical. Check out the essays on birth control!

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Timothy J Lombardo @timothyjlombardo.bsky.social · Sep 4

For the late morning/early afternoon crowd: I wrote this about Frank Rizzo, Donald Trump, and competing notions of American populism. I hope you'll give it a read 🗃️ theconversation.com/how-frank-ri...

How Frank Rizzo, a high school dropout, became Philadelphia’s toughest cop and a harbinger of MAGA politics

Understanding Rizzo’s career and political popularity can help explain the appeal of President Trump’s identity-based populism today.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · Sep 1

Last weekend, after dropping Kyle at Michigan, we had the chance to explore Detroit for the first time. I really loved it, for many reasons but especially because it felt a lot like my favorite American city, New Orleans. Which makes sense, because there are a number of throughlines between the two.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · Sep 1

So for my new @satevepost.bsky.social Considering History column, the relationship between the Big Easy & Motor City. From the Great Migration & the evolution of American music to challenges, crises, & resurgence, tracing our story from NOLA to Detroit! 🗃️

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Considering History: Tracing the Story of America from New Orleans to Detroit | The Saturday Evening Post

The interconnection between two of our great but endangered historic cities also exemplifies a multilayered American story, one with a lot to tell us in 2025.

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · Aug 27

August 29 marks the 55th anniversary of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Anti-Vietnam War march which "shaped the national Chicano movement and Los Angeles Mexican American community in profound ways while hardening opinions regarding the relationship of each to law enforcement."

The National Chicano Moratorium and Ruben Salazar Inquest: 55 Years Later

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 Califor…

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · Aug 19

Did you know, according to at least one kind historian, having me edit your manuscript is "better than therapy?"* If you have a project that needs an editor, I'm adding things to my calendar for late October and November. Please reach out! Email in bio.

*I do not recommend it as an alternative

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