I'm looking forward to this Zoom book event next week with @marksouther.bsky.social and @benchansfield.bsky.social. Would love to see some of you there!
Registration link here: princeton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Happy to see my Sandhill Cities book displayed at the Urban History Association conference. For those interested in smaller and midsized cities and/or the modern US South, check it out at the Scholars’ Choice table in the book exhibit. #UHA25LA @lsupress.bsky.social
Finally, FRIDAY 10/10 from 10:45am-12:15pm you'll have the chance to speak w @charlotte-leib.bsky.social about her research that reconstructs historic #Lenape wild rice彡stands near #Manhattan, in the #Meadowlands, using digital #webmaps @bplmaps.bsky.social Come try the map! bsky.app/profile/urba...
SOUNDSCAPES NYC is an educational programming project rooted in a popular #podcast about how music created in #NewYork has shaped the city & how the city itself has been an incubator in which music has blossomed.
Learn more about Purcell's project here: themetropole.blog/2024/12/10/s... #UHA2025LA
Green Book Cleveland is a #digitalhistory project by the Center for #PublicHistory & #DH @Cleveland State. It combines Victor H. Green’s famous travel guides, pub'd from 1936-1966, w/ new research on #Black entertainment, leisure&rec in Cleveland & NEOhio. Author: Mark Souther greenbookcleveland.org
Ornate historic ballroom with a grand piano centered on a circular patterned carpet beneath chandeliers. The room features high ceilings with decorative gold panels, tall arched windows draped with gold curtains, and intricate wall moldings. A balustrade and a short staircase with potted plants frame the raised stage area, giving the space a formal and elegant atmosphere. The rug is super ornate and has a flower theme.
Stop by the Gold Room 9am-5:30pm TOMORROW Fri. 10/10 and Sat. 10/11 during the conference for hands-on #demonstrations and #conversations with these projects' digital creators.
Featured projects in the #UHA2025LA Digital Projects Exhibition include the ones posted to this thread + many more! ⤵ ⤵ ⤵
A 3D reconstruction map of Seneca Village overlaid on a historic street grid of Manhattan, with labeled streets including 82nd Street, 86th Street, and 8th Avenue/Central Park West. The rendering depicts fields, gardens, houses, and roads that made up the 19th-century community. At the top of the image, large black text reads: “Envisioning Seneca Village — Through the tools of archives, archaeology, and virtual reality.”
A digital reconstruction of a 19th-century rural community landscape, depicting Seneca Village. In the foreground, a small stream winds through grassy terrain with wildflowers and wooden fences. A large two-story white house with columns and lit windows stands prominently to the right, with smoke rising from its chimney. Nearby are smaller houses, gardens, and fenced areas with animals, set against a backdrop of dramatic clouds and trees, including willows. The scene evokes a peaceful, lived-in environment. It is a working landscape and the color palette is serene, with yellows, greens, beiges, white-painted homes and a sky with what looks like coal smoke on one side and large cumulus white clouds on other, looming above the horizon.
Envisioning Seneca Village blends historical research w/ #digitalmapping + rendering to present an interactive 3D model of what #SenecaVillage might have looked like in 1855, two yrs before its destruction to build Central Park. Co-Authors: Gergely Baics, Meredith Linn, Leah Meisterlin & Myles Zhang
A detailed 3D wireframe model of a dense urban neighborhood, showing a mix of early 20th-century residential and commercial buildings. The scene includes multi-story apartment houses with bay windows and decorative façades in the foreground, as well as row houses, small shops, and mid-rise buildings receding into the background. The model is rendered in pastel colors with visible polygon edges, suggesting it is being viewed in a 3D modeling environment.
Closer-up view of the same model referenced in the last image, now at just above building-height.
#BunkerHillRefrain provides scholars and the general public with an opportunity to reimagine the history of #LosAngeles by telling the stories of a neighborhood erased by #urbanrenewal. Co-Authors: Mats Borges, Meredith Drake Reitan, Curtis Fletcher and students #UHA2025LA
Los Angeles cityscape collage near city hall in hues of red, brown, ultramarine, and beige, with the hashtag #UHA2025LA on top and a palm tree behind. The #LA hashtag is in a blue circle with an abstract city street grid.
Get ready to explore the future of urban history at #UHA2025LA! Tomorrow and Saturday, the UHA conference's Digital Exhibition Floor in the #BiltmoreHotel 's Gold Room will showcase cutting-edge research that’s transforming how we understand urban places.
My newest book, Sandhill Cities, published by @lsupress.bsky.social, is now available! Looking outward from Atlanta or Charlotte, the fall-line cities might seem peripheral, but their histories are inseparable from that of an emerging modern South. Learn more at lsupress.org/978080718489....
Anne, I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. Wishing you comfort and peace.
Just happened upon this nice collection of Cincinnati Better Housing League photos of tenements and alleys, many from the Progressive Era but also some later ones from the Depression digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/coll...
Great read. Yes, how telling that the files are locked away from public access. Just subscribed to your Substack. I’m also enjoying seeing the digital project as it develops.
Cover image from “A Day at Lincoln Square,” a play by Charles D. Atkinson, illustrated by Midgette. The iconic design of Lincoln Center overshadows a family of six, bags packed and dog in tow, presumably on their way out. Braislin, Porter & Wheelock is printed on their bags. Rockefeller Archives.
A revealing Christmas skit by the firm hired by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to oversee relocation, site management, and demolition of Lincoln Square urbanrenewal.substack.com/p/lincoln-ce...
Kind of excited that I have nothing scheduled this weekend! For the previous five weekends, I’ve had one or more band or orchestra rehearsals or concerts to top of the usual semester stuff.
Weather radar showing snowfall and warning area in NE Ohio
Ahh, the first lake effect snow warning of the season! Winter is paying Cleveland an early visit.
Here’s my latest, First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America
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I enjoyed your discussion of your book on Ben Franklin’s World, and we talked about it in my public history class earlier this month.
Picture of Seth’s book, Plantation Goods: A Material History of Slavery
Totally exciting to see this brand new book by @sethrockman.bsky.social out on the table at the Harvard Bookstore
American West friends - here's a new profile for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at BYU: @byureddcenter.bsky.social. Follow and share!
bsky.app/profile/byur...
1) Currently working on digital exhibit for NYS public library system on urban renewal; plans for a book on UR (@urbanrenewal.bsky.social).
2)How to find and count people displaced involuntarily for other govt programs besides UR (esp urban expressways but also TVA, dams, NYC water, etc)
1) Currently working on the Green Book Cleveland DH project and working through the in-press production stage of my next book on GA fall-line cities.
2) Wondering if there were other Black-owned beach resorts on the Great Lakes similar to the two we’ve researched on Lake Erie in NE Ohio.
"To the Latin American immigrants who made up a growing share of the surrounding community, MacArthur Park was a place for survival ... 'In my country it is not a crime to be a vendor,' protested a man from El Salvador who sold toys." L.A. immigration, street commerce, McArthur Park and the LAPD
My department is running a tenure track search in Public History for someone who focuses on Latine or Indigenous History. PLEASE share widely; and reach out with questions. I'm more than happy to sell the benefits of joining our really vibrant program.
www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29664
Please add me too. Thx!
Concert poster with picture of moth at top, inset photo of guest trumpet soloist Ashley Hall-Tighe, concert info (available via link), and CSU School of Music logo
For those in #Cleveland, you can see me play with the Cleveland Winds this Sunday, Nov. 17. Why is there a moth on this poster, you ask? Because our portion of this joint concert with CSU Wind Ensemble opens with Viet Cuong’s “Moth.” Concert info: facebook.com/events/s/csu...
Hi Everyone! Here's the latest from our Researching Urban Renewal Substack: "Who Was Urban Renewal For?"
open.substack.com/pub/urbanren...
US Urban History starter pack. I know I probably missed a bunch of really talented people, so please add and suggest folks. @urbanrenewal.bsky.social @lizgreenspan.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/ADP275m
If there isn't already an urban history starter pack, it shouldn't be hard to find enough users to start one @urbanhistorya.bsky.social
Greetings to all who have recently followed me. You inspired me to fly out of the “bird cage,” which I hadn’t visited in maybe a year anyway. Happy to connect here, although my current philosophy is less time on social media, more time IRL.