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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 6h

"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

Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

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

After an excellent #UHALA2025
BIG THANKS to:
Program Comm co-chairs: James Zarsadiaz & Jerry Gonzalez
Local Arrangements Comm co-chairs: Becky Nicolaides & @elewinnek.bsky.social
UHA President A.K. Sandoval-Strausz
All of our student volunteers,
And not least, Executive Director Daniela Sheinin!

Graduate student volunteers Carolyn Lau, Lisa Ng, and Victoria Tran work the registration table at the Biltmore Hotel on Friday 10/10.

two women clap for another woman receiving a plaque in a hotel ballroom. that latter woman is surrounded by two other people, a woman at left, and a man at right. large drapery stands behind them and there's a podium at center on a stage above the ballroom floor.

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 8h

"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.

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · 9h

More pics from the weekend..below left is @wwnorton.com author Bench Ansfield at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social exhibit holding Born in Flames, & on the right, @fordhampress.bsky.social author Christopher Breu at the @moderniststudies.bsky.social exhibit with In Defense of Sex. #uha2025 #msa2025

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 10h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 1d

“[T]here remains much more work to be done to decipher and expose how the workscapes and necroscapes borne from the production of artificial light affected people, animals, cities, and environments together, in tandem.”

Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 4d

As #UHA2025LA kicks off, I’m happy to share here my most recent piece on the Metropole, on an understudied topic in #urbanhistory #envhist —how different lighting tech’s have affected birds & humans over the centuries & what we can do about it.

It’s a dual exposé & call to action Check it out here:

Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 4d

"Urban historians have written much about technological and social change in cities and very little about the ways in which historical transformations in lighting technologies have affected environments and ecologies, and the habitats and health of birds." from @charlotte-leib.bsky.social

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

It ended with @elsadevienne.bsky.social sharing key insights from #SandRush on the cultural & #envhist of LA's #beaches. Check out the award-winning books *Sand Rush* & *Living the California Dream* to learn more! global.oup.com/academic/pro... uk.linkedin.com/in/elsa-devi... alisonrosejefferson.com

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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 1d

Echoing that thanks!

A terrific tour + chance to talk more about race, recreation + landscape history not only with @elsadevienne.bsky.social, learning from her new pub * #SandRush *, but also @lawrencecphd.bsky.social, whose first book *The Frontier of Leisure* examines these themes, too! #envhist

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

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

A group of people dressed in athletic and casual clothing flex their (relatively small) "muscles" at Muscle Beach!

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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 1d

Spotted this @pennpress.bsky.social beauty in the wild in Los Angeles. Thank you to @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for a wonderful conference!!!

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

Artist #AprilBanks also discussed community process that drove the development of "A Resurrection in Four Stanzas," the red skeleton of a house pictured, that celebrates the California Dream that many Black people achieved here in Belmar & had taken away from them. www.aprilbanks.com/aresurrectio...

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

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

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

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

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Shakti Castro @shakticastro.bsky.social · 1d

#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!

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Shakti Castro @shakticastro.bsky.social · 1d

Brian Purnell and Ansley Erickson gave great presentations on their panel New Histories of New York #uha2025LA

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 1d

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 245 (10/12/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & en...

blackwhiteandread.com

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New American History @newamericanhistory.bsky.social · 2d

#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”

UR DSL Director Rob Nelson shares Fires of Industry at #UHA2025LA

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

More action from Friday evening 10/10 and today at #UHA2025LA

#urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

Some highlights from the #UHA2025LA #instagram #stories feed!

www.instagram.com/urbanhistory... #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

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

Mural with a palm tree and sun against an ocean backdrop with graffiti reads “we can start over” on an urban street

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

#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

website homepage for The Living New Deal DH project and atlas https://livingnewdeal.org/

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

#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

people at a conference gather in an ornate ballroom around a screen. A woman in the center of the frame points at the screen.

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Charlotte Leib @charlotte-leib.bsky.social · 2d

If you're at #UHA2025LA, I recommend making time to visit the #GoldRoom! There are some fantastic #digitalhumanities projects represented there. #DH #scholarship #history

Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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New American History @newamericanhistory.bsky.social · 2d

Join us today at 1:15 PM today for “Teaching with Digital Archives” #UHA2025LA

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Annie Evans @MapM8ker 🗺️📜🇺🇸🏘️📖 @mapm8ker.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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