In October, panelists at the #UHA2025LA conference presented the "Sunset Over Sunset" project, based on the famous #SunsetBlvd photos of #EdRuscha. In addition to Ed Ruscha's photos, the project site features various essays about this historic street. www.sunsetoversunset.org #HistorySky #LosAngeles
"For years now, urban planner James Rojas has led tours of L.A.’s Eastside, pointing out the murals, landmarks and architecture formed by Chicano & Latino culture." @laist.com: laist.com/brief/news/l... #UHA2025LA
"In all the world, there neither was nor would ever be another place like this City of the Angels," #CareyMcWilliams.
Spent the last 4 days at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's conference at the historic Biltmore Hotel. Still processing all the wonderful Los Angeles history research shared @ #UHA2025LA.
Alison Rose Jefferson and Elsa Devienne
AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE LIVED IN SANTA MONICA LONGER THAN ANY OTHER BEACH CITY IN THE REGION. They first arrived in the late nineteenth century. joining other ethnic groups that left their homes for better lives. African Americans also came for equal opportunities and freedom. Most Black newcomers were from Southern states. where they lived under the White racist laws and practices of Jim Crow. There, for nearly 100 years after the Civil War, this deliberate discrimination made their lives oppressive. Although California passed civil rights laws for all its citizens in 1893, racist practices limited where African Americans lived, worked, and went to school, which places they visited, and even which people they socialized with. EDUCATION FOR ALL Camelia Hunt, student number 11 in this 1893 photograph, was the only African American in her fourth-grade class. Born in Virginia, her family moved to Santa Monica in the 1880s. Her father, George W. Hunt, owned a barbershop at 902 Wilshire Boulevard. The Hunts also owned their home at 1548 7th Street. Black Californians persevered. In Santa Monica, they created opportunities to work, rent and buy property, and gather in public. Over the years, they fought to keep these rights, win others, and tear down the walls of anti-Black discrimination. BELMAR HISTORY +ART www.untamonica.cov/arts/bolmar Santa Monica
Sculpture representing a shotgun house, a popular form of residential architecture in New Orleans and other parts of the US south.
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE BENEATH THIS MARKER IS A COLLECTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY FOR SANTA MONICAS GENERATIONS TO COME IT IS TO BE OPENED JUNE 19, 2070
I just wanted to share some more photos from the great beach history tour led by @elsadevienne.bsky.social and
alisonrosejefferson.com in Santa Monica today as part of the Urban History Association’s conference!
#UHA2025LA
Some photos from #BelmarPark where historian Alison Rose Jefferson facilitated the installation of 17 historical markers to recognize the #Black neighborhood displaced by #urbanrenewal &the would-be Black resort on the Santa Monica Beach undercut by white developers in the 1920s. #history #UHA2025LA
A group of people dressed in athletic and casual clothing flex their (relatively small) "muscles" at Muscle Beach!
The #UHA2025LA conference today included excellent tour of the historically #Black neighborhood of Belmar & LA's iconic #musclebeach with historians Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social & Alison Rose Jefferson. A deeply informative, engaging morning! Thank you Elsa & Alison! #LosAngeles #history
Brian Purnell and Ansley Erickson gave great presentations on their panel New Histories of New York #uha2025LA
#uha2025LA was a wonderful conference. Was so glad to see Latinx history centered in a non-ethnic studies conference setting. Many kudos to @aksandovalstrausz.bsky.social Daniela Sheinin and the programming and local arrangements committees for their amazing work!
More action from Friday evening 10/10 and today at #UHA2025LA
#urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
Some highlights from the #UHA2025LA #instagram #stories feed!
www.instagram.com/urbanhistory... #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
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Mural with a palm tree and sun against an ocean backdrop with graffiti reads “we can start over” on an urban street
historians: food4thought—have the panels at #UHA2025LA exemplified the validity of the below claim?
Or have they revealed it as a promising but unreachable fallacy?
➡️In other words “can we start over?”A key Q to consider given the complexity of what it means to renew or begin again in #urban env’s
website homepage for The Living New Deal DH project and atlas https://livingnewdeal.org/
#UHA2025LA Digital Exhibits, Sat. 10/11, 4-5:30pm
➤ Natalie McDonald, Lauren Davies & Omar Bernal, The Living #NewDeal
➤ Becky Nicolaides & Deborah Holmes-Wong, #LACounty #Demographic #Data Project, 1950-2010
** See the first project here ** livingnewdeal.org
#digitalhumanities #urbanhist #envhist
#UHA2025LA Digital Project Exhibits, Saturday 10/11, 2:15-3:45pm:
➤ Rebecca Retzlaff, Megan Slatton & Megan Helm LaFrambois: #Race, #CivilRights, & #Planning History in Montgomery, Alabama
➤ @yangonzalez.bsky.social, Historical #Chinese & #Japanese American voter registrations in the 1920s & 1940s
If you're at #UHA2025LA, I recommend making time to visit the #GoldRoom! There are some fantastic #digitalhumanities projects represented there. #DH #scholarship #history
Happening now! @mapm8ker.bsky.social & co. present their cutting-edge #map -based #K-12 #edu work! #UHA2025LA
There's still a chance to visit the digital projects exhibit in the #GoldRoom! Here are the exhibits that remain this Saturday! #UHA2025LA
12:30-2pm:
➤ @ansleyerickson.bsky.social, #NYC #CivilRights #History Project
➤ Carmelo Ignaccolo, #Living #Heritage #Atlas | Beirut dusp.mit.edu/people/carme...
Join us in 1 hour -Moroccan Rm #UHA2025LA -How might scholars and K12 educators best support students” historical thinking? We have some thoughts… @newamericanhistory.bsky.social @urbanhistorya.bsky.social @urichmond.bsky.social
Happening in one hour at 11:30am ! #UHA2025LA
James Rojas leads a tour of East L.A. on "Lost Chicano Urban Design,” including stops at Mariachi Plaza and Belvedere Park (pictured here), ending with a delicious lunch at El Mercado de Los Angeles (not pictured here…) #UHA2025LA
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UR DSL Director Rob Nelson shares Fires of Industry at #UHA2025LA
#UHA2025LA —Enjoyed viewing all the #digitalhumanities projects and supporting our @urichmond.bsky.social DSL Director Rob Nelson sharing their latest mapping work in progress- “Fires of Empire”
If you're attending #UHA2025LA, come visit us in the book exhibit today, Saturday 10/11, where we'll be giving away our display copies to graduate students and contingent scholars between 9 a.m. and 5 a.m. (limit one book per person)!
@lawrencecphd.bsky.social @elsadevienne.bsky.social and Kara Schilchting will share new work emerging from their book projects and research. See below for the program and some previews! #UHA2025LA
The remaining UHA book, article, and dissertation prize winners (from both 2024 and 2025 will be posted to BlueSky with photos from today later this week, so check back here! 🌟📌 #UHA2025LA
Session 107 • Sat. 11:30 am-1:00 pm Roundtable: Urban Uprisings after the 1970s Athenian Chair: Max Felker-Kantor University of Wisconsin-Madison Elizabeth Hinton Yale University Ashley Howard University of Iowa Tyler Parry UNLV Alexander M. Stephens University of Michigan V.N. Trinh The Ohio State University
TOMORROW at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social. Chop it up with us over urban insurrections and—spoiler alert—a mass deportation campaign that the LAPD and INS carried out in the middle of the Rodney King Uprisings.
#UHA2025LA
Congrats to this year’s #UHA2025LA award winners, along with last year’s 2024 winners, who are recognized in each of the Urban History Association’s Biennial conferences 🌟🏆
Lynn Lees presents the new *Lynn Hollen Lees Book Prize for Best Book in European Urban History* 2024 to Cindy Ermus (The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the 18th-Century Atlantic World) & 2025 to Claire Morelon(Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914-1920) #UHA2025LA
