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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!
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!
October 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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!
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!
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
October 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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
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...
October 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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...
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
October 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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
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
October 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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
More action from Friday evening 10/10 and today at #UHA2025LA
#urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
#urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
October 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
More action from Friday evening 10/10 and today at #UHA2025LA
#urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
#urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
Some highlights from the #UHA2025LA #instagram #stories feed!
www.instagram.com/urbanhistory... #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
www.instagram.com/urbanhistory... #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
October 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Some highlights from the #UHA2025LA #instagram #stories feed!
www.instagram.com/urbanhistory... #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
www.instagram.com/urbanhistory... #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles
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
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
October 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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
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
#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
➤ 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
October 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
#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
➤ 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
➤ 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
October 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
#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
➤ 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
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...
12:30-2pm:
➤ @ansleyerickson.bsky.social, #NYC #CivilRights #History Project
➤ Carmelo Ignaccolo, #Living #Heritage #Atlas | Beirut dusp.mit.edu/people/carme...
October 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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...
12:30-2pm:
➤ @ansleyerickson.bsky.social, #NYC #CivilRights #History Project
➤ Carmelo Ignaccolo, #Living #Heritage #Atlas | Beirut dusp.mit.edu/people/carme...
October 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
October 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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
October 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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
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
October 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
@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
October 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
@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
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
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
October 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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
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
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
October 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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
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
October 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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
>>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)
October 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
>>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)
First up in the #UHA2025LA awards ceremony: Joe Trotter, presenting the newly-established award the *Joe William Trotter, Jr. Prize for Best First Book in Urban History* “This award speaks to UHA’s commitment to #socialjustice and the project of making a better world at home and abroad.” It also >>>
October 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
First up in the #UHA2025LA awards ceremony: Joe Trotter, presenting the newly-established award the *Joe William Trotter, Jr. Prize for Best First Book in Urban History* “This award speaks to UHA’s commitment to #socialjustice and the project of making a better world at home and abroad.” It also >>>
#UHA2025LA closing out the banquet, we are moving into the awards ceremony! Check out this year’s book, article, and dissertation award winners here! www.urbanhistory.org/2025awardwin... and be sure to raise a glass!
October 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
#UHA2025LA closing out the banquet, we are moving into the awards ceremony! Check out this year’s book, article, and dissertation award winners here! www.urbanhistory.org/2025awardwin... and be sure to raise a glass!
UHA President A. K. Sandoval-Strausz traces genealogies of urban politics in #America pointing to the divided political landscapes of cities in #PA like
Reading, Allentown, York, Lancaster, & these cities post-industrial demographic/political histories as core to his current project #rustbelt
Reading, Allentown, York, Lancaster, & these cities post-industrial demographic/political histories as core to his current project #rustbelt
October 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
#UHA2025LA @ his Banquet Dinner Presidential Address Andrew Sandoval-Strausz discusses the importance of Latino history & Chicano history to the importance of #urbanhistory as a field & particularly studies of California urban landscapes, social and ethnic histories, & histories of racial formation
October 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#UHA2025LA @ his Banquet Dinner Presidential Address Andrew Sandoval-Strausz discusses the importance of Latino history & Chicano history to the importance of #urbanhistory as a field & particularly studies of California urban landscapes, social and ethnic histories, & histories of racial formation
Lots of buzz here at the end of the end of the first full day of the #UHA2025LA conf. Finishing up in the Grecian Room: FORECASTING DESTRUCTION: Simulation & Security in Mid-20th Century America w Adam Longenbach (Harvard), Heather Jahrling (Princeton) and Kristine Ericson (USC Society of Fellows)
October 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Lots of buzz here at the end of the end of the first full day of the #UHA2025LA conf. Finishing up in the Grecian Room: FORECASTING DESTRUCTION: Simulation & Security in Mid-20th Century America w Adam Longenbach (Harvard), Heather Jahrling (Princeton) and Kristine Ericson (USC Society of Fellows)