Technicians spent more than a week scanning and stabilizing “Gugusse and the Automaton" – which features, by the way, the first known moving image of what might be called a robot – so that it can now be enjoyed by anyone online!

In September, a box of old film reels was donated to the Library's National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. One of them was a nearly 130-year-old, long-lost film by iconic French filmmaker George Méliès. It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century. 🧵 blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/02/...

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...

Hurry, less than two weeks to submit proposals for the Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium at the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) Conference on Oct 15 in Cincinnati! Proposals for the colloquium and conference due March 1. Please share.

Hurry, less than two weeks to submit proposals for the Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium at the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) Conference on Oct 15 in Cincinnati! Proposals for the colloquium and conference due March 1. Please share.

Our colleagues at SACRPH are launching the Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium, to be held in conjunction with their National Conference on Planning History, in Cincinnati, Ohio. To learn more and to apply, click here: themetropole.blog/2026/01/14/c...

Are you a PhD student working on a dissertation that engages with the history of the city or metropolitan planning (anytime or place)? Apply to participate in the inaugural Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium at the SACRPH Conference in Cincinnati on Oct 15! Please repost and share offline.

Are you a PhD student studying urban or metropolitan history? Apply to join the inaugural Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium that we're running at the SACRPH conference this October. Come for the snacks, stay for the mentorship, camaraderie, and writing help.

Are you a PhD student working on a dissertation that engages with the history of the city or metropolitan planning (anytime or place)? Apply to participate in the inaugural Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium at the SACRPH Conference in Cincinnati on Oct 15! Please repost and share offline.

Folks, Centre's History Program is hiring a two-year visitor. It's a great opportunity to get a couple of years of really good teaching experience. Share widely, please! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69669/c...

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

If you want to celebrate the life of Rob Reiner tonight and you haven't seen it, the documentary about his best friend, ALBERT BROOKS: DEFENDING MY LIFE, is as much about Brooks as it is Reiner's love for his lifelong best friend. As fall down hilarious as it is sweet & touching. It's a must see.

After my dad’s health forced him to retire, I spent a decade organizing his research and uncollected writing, finishing after he died in 2018. Now @tomsugrue.bsky.social has edited this volume of it (and written a great intro) for @uchicagopress.bsky.social. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

we did it y’all 🥹💪 they said it couldn’t be done www.fox5dc.com/news/new-bil...

We are hiring in American History - TT open rank search applications.caltech.edu/jobs/history

Thanks @urbanhistorya.bsky.social for the opportunity to write, about #birds #envhist #urbanhist and #light! 🐧 🐦 🐤 🕯️ 💡 ⚡️

In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.

I am posting this in the hope my followers in Maryland and the surrounding area have knowledge of this car and its driver. Maryland woman killed in hit-and-run; police release suspect vehicle details

Any academics out there privileged enough to have access to Taylor & Francis willing to send PDF: Appler, Douglas R. “Affordable Housing in National Register Districts: Recognizing the Advantages of Historic Urban Neighborhoods in Louisville and Covington, Kentucky, USA.” Journal of Urbanism, 2016.

We are honoring Mike Davis at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social UHA Conference 2025 in Los Angeles. c1typlann3r.blog/2025/09/29/w...

Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each: - person who reposts this post - new follower @51st.news ws gets - new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets - new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets - new follower I get And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.

The Hollywood Conference is just over a week away and we have our full schedule up on our website. It's going to be so much fun (for an academic conference)! #HWC25 thehollywoodconference.com

In midst of one of LA's most intense, challenging summers, we're busy planning for UHA2025LA in Oct. I'm esp excited to announce this panel on Literary LA. It's open to public and all conference attendees. LA's writer community is warmly invited to attend! www.urbanhistory.org/Literary-LA

Historic Preservation job in my hometown - the Preservation Resource Center is in such a lovely Gothic Revival warehouse by the GNO bridge. Great opportunity to help make preservation work in New Orleans! preservenet.org/job/preserva...

i'm in a movie theater (using my phone because it's 15 minutes before showtime, i'm not an animal) and it is tepidly cool in here at best. what is happening to this country if our movie theaters aren't a bone chillingly frigid escape from the blazing summer heat anymore

This year's GSB is out! Send us your entry grad students! This year's theme is light and the various ways it intersects with urban history! Check out the call and send us your piece!

PAW Partnership for Animal Welfare Greenbelt, MD 20770 (301) 572-4729 Click on pic for details:

Re: my last two posts: Please come to my zoom talk — Case Logics: Furnishing a Bureaucratic Implosion" — on Thurs, May 8, at 5pm ET! We'll talk about Oval Office bling, Mar-a-Lago banquet table grift, the executive order tiny desk, the filing cabinets of civil service, and community card catalogs!

WE'RE HIRING: We're continuing to expand our geographic scope & doing a hiring round for zoning/GIS analysts and preservation people. We tend to close applications very quickly, so please pass this on to interested folks &/or send in inquiries/letters of interest at your earliest convenience! 👩‍💻🗺️🏛️

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Y'all are showin' up right at 9am! ❤️ We appreciate you so much! @americanbookseller.bsky.social Can't make it to the store today? No worries! Share this post and be entered into a raffle for a gift card! Woot woot!! 🎉🎉

The great Bruce Willis turns 70 years old today. For @vanityfair.com, I talked to Samuel L. Jackson, Bonnie Bedelia, and Glenn Gordon Caron, and wrote about why I think he's one of our most underrated and versatile actors. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

A big thank you to NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PRESERVATION EDUCATION for asking me to moderate conversations on shifting preservation practices - I am excited to kick off this series with Andrea R. Roberts, PhD tomorrow. Register: lnkd.in/e6NMVMkv

This was all pre Oscars. Movies this weekend!

The Oscars isn’t really about anointing the best picture. It’s just hoping the most annoying picture doesn’t win.

hulu collapsing during the oscars is a collision of both ways streaming broke communal entertainment sean baker gives speech about how streaming has disrupted film as a communal experience (physical space) meanwhile, hulu stops working and breaks the tv communal space (simultaneous experience)

"The Rome in both Gladiator films is a landscape of monumental architecture subtly but pervasively inflected by fascist styles ... this version of antiquity became ever more firmly constructed as a white legacy, a vehicle for and proof of white greatness." Grace Gillies on the Rome of Gladiator

"Film began in cities and thus has long impacted our perceptions of urban life through cinematic depictions of the same. Movies simultaneously function as a driver and recipient of the economics of the larger show biz industry." Kicking off The Metropoles's Feb. 2025 theme: Celluloid City!

It is publication day for THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS (@columbiaup.bsky.social), a book about the materials that make movies possible and how to read between the raw materials and the screen worlds they create.

I have attempted a Starter Pack for historians of architecture and the like! All caveats apply: blurriness of fields’ boundaries, clumsy search function, etc. But I did my best! If I inadvertently omitted you or you’d like to be added (or removed, for that matter), lemme know! go.bsky.app/PoxVCXB

Becky Nicolaides, a historian of Los Angeles and suburbia, lost everything when her home in Altadena burned down on Tuesday night. If you have the means to help support her and her family in navigating this devastating loss, her fundraising site is here: gofund.me/6ef68b01

Nice to see many preservation folks on here & good reason to share that the 2025 cycle of @savingplaces.bsky.social Conserving Black Modernism grants opens today. We've awarded to wonderful places over the last 2 years: churches, community hubs & more. Please apply! savingplaces.org/black-modern...

Creating a Historic Preservation starterpack! Comment or DM to be added, or let me know if I missed anyone. go.bsky.app/D9w1NYJ

As I contemplated making my year-end lists, I realized that so many of the movies and shows that stuck with me the most found fresh and profound ways of wrestling with death and dying. So I wrote about it: www.npr.org/2024/12/30/n...

I unabashedly love The Holiday. It’s the only December-themed movie I ever get a craving to watch this time of year, but I could watch it anytime. @jesseraub.bsky.social’s analysis here is quite compelling. Check it out.

Hoping that we get a LOT of responses to these NTT surveys. If you are a historian teaching off the tenure track, in any department/program/unit, we want you to take this NTT survey. History department chairs, there's a separate survey for you too. 🗃️

One of my favorites, too!

Registration for the 2024 Fitch Colloquium is free and open to the public! Join us for a day of presentations, panels, and critical discussions about how to rebalance architecture curricula in response to the cascading impacts of climate change. Register here:

W/ 2024 nearly behind us, we're looking forward to 3 theme months in the 1st half of 2025: Celluloid City (the city and film), The City Aquatic (the city and water), and Los Angeles, $200 to selected contributors for each month, check out the link below for more details and send us a pitch!: