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

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

Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 16m

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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Shakti Castro @shakticastro.bsky.social · 57m

#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 · 52m

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 · 7h

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! 🗃️

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#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 · 1d

#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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 1d

#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 · 1d

#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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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Annie Evans @MapM8ker 🗺️📜🇺🇸🏘️📖 @mapm8ker.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

A brilliant Saturday in LA
#LAArtsDistrict #UHA2025LA

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

Happening in one hour at 11:30am ! #UHA2025LA

Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

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

#UHA2025LA

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

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 · 1d

Also joining @lawrencecphd.bsky.social @elsadevienne.bsky.social & Kara is Alison Rose Jefferson sharing *Black California Dreamin’" on how blacks claimed space on the LA frontier I am an indepn't Historian & Heritage Conservationist) who will be sharing " #parks #rec #racism #segregation #urbanhist

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

@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

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

This morning we're featuring the *Summer in the City: Urban Heat in the Past, Present & Future* panel

Head to the Roman rm from 8-9:30pm to learn about how urban historians are addressing hot topics like— #climatechange —& the interconnected histories of the body, health & leisure & climate control

cover slide with a hot hazy palm tree urban scene and the text at right, on white: "Hidden Histories of Heat in LA's Land of Sunshine

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

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

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

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

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

>>The Joe William Trotter Jr Prize represents the UHA’s commitment to nurturing the next generation of scholars and celebrating their achievements in their first book projects #UHA2025LA. Winner: John Barnes(The Carceral City); Honorable Mention: Menika Dirkson(Hope and Struggle in the Policed City)

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