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...

Happy to see my Sandhill Cities book displayed at the Urban History Association conference. For those interested in smaller and midsized cities and/or the modern US South, check it out at the Scholars’ Choice table in the book exhibit. #UHA25LA @lsupress.bsky.social

Finally, FRIDAY 10/10 from 10:45am-12:15pm you'll have the chance to speak w @charlotte-leib.bsky.social about her research that reconstructs historic #Lenape wild rice彡stands near #Manhattan, in the #Meadowlands, using digital #webmaps @bplmaps.bsky.social Come try the map! bsky.app/profile/urba...

SOUNDSCAPES NYC is an educational programming project rooted in a popular #podcast about how music created in #NewYork has shaped the city & how the city itself has been an incubator in which music has blossomed. Learn more about Purcell's project here: themetropole.blog/2024/12/10/s... #UHA2025LA

Green Book Cleveland is a #digitalhistory project by the Center for #PublicHistory & #DH @Cleveland State. It combines Victor H. Green’s famous travel guides, pub'd from 1936-1966, w/ new research on #Black entertainment, leisure&rec in Cleveland & NEOhio. Author: Mark Souther greenbookcleveland.org

Stop by the Gold Room 9am-5:30pm TOMORROW Fri. 10/10 and Sat. 10/11 during the conference for hands-on #demonstrations and #conversations with these projects' digital creators. Featured projects in the #UHA2025LA Digital Projects Exhibition include the ones posted to this thread + many more! ⤵ ⤵ ⤵

Envisioning Seneca Village blends historical research w/ #digitalmapping + rendering to present an interactive 3D model of what #SenecaVillage might have looked like in 1855, two yrs before its destruction to build Central Park. Co-Authors: Gergely Baics, Meredith Linn, Leah Meisterlin & Myles Zhang

#BunkerHillRefrain provides scholars and the general public with an opportunity to reimagine the history of #LosAngeles by telling the stories of a neighborhood erased by #urbanrenewal. Co-Authors: Mats Borges, Meredith Drake Reitan, Curtis Fletcher and students #UHA2025LA

Get ready to explore the future of urban history at #UHA2025LA! Tomorrow and Saturday, the UHA conference's Digital Exhibition Floor in the #BiltmoreHotel 's Gold Room will showcase cutting-edge research that’s transforming how we understand urban places.

My newest book, Sandhill Cities, published by @lsupress.bsky.social, is now available! Looking outward from Atlanta or Charlotte, the fall-line cities might seem peripheral, but their histories are inseparable from that of an emerging modern South. Learn more at lsupress.org/978080718489....

Just happened upon this nice collection of Cincinnati Better Housing League photos of tenements and alleys, many from the Progressive Era but also some later ones from the Depression digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/coll...

A revealing Christmas skit by the firm hired by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to oversee relocation, site management, and demolition of Lincoln Square urbanrenewal.substack.com/p/lincoln-ce...

Kind of excited that I have nothing scheduled this weekend! For the previous five weekends, I’ve had one or more band or orchestra rehearsals or concerts to top of the usual semester stuff.

Ahh, the first lake effect snow warning of the season! Winter is paying Cleveland an early visit.

Here’s my latest, First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America bookshop.org/p/books/firs...

Totally exciting to see this brand new book by @sethrockman.bsky.social out on the table at the Harvard Bookstore

American West friends - here's a new profile for the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at BYU: @byureddcenter.bsky.social. Follow and share! bsky.app/profile/byur...

1) Currently working on digital exhibit for NYS public library system on urban renewal; plans for a book on UR (@urbanrenewal.bsky.social). 2)How to find and count people displaced involuntarily for other govt programs besides UR (esp urban expressways but also TVA, dams, NYC water, etc)

1) Currently working on the Green Book Cleveland DH project and working through the in-press production stage of my next book on GA fall-line cities. 2) Wondering if there were other Black-owned beach resorts on the Great Lakes similar to the two we’ve researched on Lake Erie in NE Ohio.

"To the Latin American immigrants who made up a growing share of the surrounding community, MacArthur Park was a place for survival ... 'In my country it is not a crime to be a vendor,' protested a man from El Salvador who sold toys." L.A. immigration, street commerce, McArthur Park and the LAPD

My department is running a tenure track search in Public History for someone who focuses on Latine or Indigenous History. PLEASE share widely; and reach out with questions. I'm more than happy to sell the benefits of joining our really vibrant program. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29664

For those in #Cleveland, you can see me play with the Cleveland Winds this Sunday, Nov. 17. Why is there a moth on this poster, you ask? Because our portion of this joint concert with CSU Wind Ensemble opens with Viet Cuong’s “Moth.” Concert info: facebook.com/events/s/csu...

Hi Everyone! Here's the latest from our Researching Urban Renewal Substack: "Who Was Urban Renewal For?" open.substack.com/pub/urbanren...

US Urban History starter pack. I know I probably missed a bunch of really talented people, so please add and suggest folks. @urbanrenewal.bsky.social @lizgreenspan.bsky.social go.bsky.app/ADP275m

If there isn't already an urban history starter pack, it shouldn't be hard to find enough users to start one @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

Greetings to all who have recently followed me. You inspired me to fly out of the “bird cage,” which I hadn’t visited in maybe a year anyway. Happy to connect here, although my current philosophy is less time on social media, more time IRL.

Streetscape Palimpsest, a project focusing on the history of an Atlanta street that is being buried under redevelopment, directed by Marni Davis and reviewed by Mark Souther reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/streetsc... #ReviewsInDH

I’m pleased to share that my new book, Sandhill Cities: Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, is in press for fall 2025 publication in LSU Press’s Making the Modern South series edited by David Goldfield. #lsupress #southernhistory #urbanhistory @urbanhistorya.bsky.social

Today at 2pm, a new Ohio historical marker will be dedicated for Cleveland inventor Garrett Morgan’s recreational club (1924-1940s) for African Americans in Wakeman, Ohio.

Thanks, @urbanhistorya.bsky.social, for the opportunity to share Green Book Cleveland on the Metropole’s Digital Summer School themetropole.blog/2024/07/02/d...

New article out today about the expansion of our Green Book Cleveland project into Akron. The article originates from Signal Akron but this is the Signal Cleveland version with a local lede. signalcleveland.org/green-book-c...

It’s been a busy musical spring—6 band and orchestra concerts in the past 12 weeks. One more to go in 8 days.

Since the #KeystoneDH24 conference theme is play, we at the CSU Center for Public History + Digital Humanities) invite anyone who’s interested in mapping narratives or creating digital tours to play with our PlacePress plugin for WordPress. Questions welcome! @keystonedh.bsky.social wpplacepress.org

Time for our immersive keynote panel! Amanda Licastro talks about the importance of “Embracing the Glitch” to teaching, learning and also critique of big tech. Glitchy independent work shows the seams and breaks the illusions of glossy “perfect” seeming surfaces!

After lunch, Zach Whalen shares his latest viz project, a Wilderness Walk in Shenandoah National Forest turned to a “data bookification” project! @zachwhalen.bsky.social @keystonedh.bsky.social #keystonedh24

“I had to bring the reader into the diagram” says Micki Kaufman, showing us her efforts to make a landscape of topic clustering in the Henry Kissinger archive for her Quantifying Kissinger keynote! #keystonedh24 @keystonedh.bsky.social

Looking forward to #keystonedh24

Arrived in Erie for the Keystone DH conference at Penn State Erie. Here are some views of the harbor looking toward downtown in one direction and Presque Isle on the other. #eriepa #presqueisle #lakeerie #keystonedh24

Whoa! I’m buying this book right now. Theresa McCulla’s Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans. It’s literally out today. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

My digital monograph, Harlem in Disorder, now has a cover - & is on track to go live next month! Thanks @stanfordpress.bsky.social

An op-ed on Detroit’s “comeback” www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/o...

And just in case anyone is looking for the article in question...

I decided to write about the end of Confederate veneration at Arlington National Cemetery. Please share. 🗃️ @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @kevinmlevin.bsky.social karencoxhistorian.com/2023/12/20/t...

Love to have published what is probably the only peer-reviewed academic article about something and then have the NYT write about it with absolutely no mention whatsoever 🙄🙄🙄

Gov. Hochul just signed a bill authorizing a NY State reparations commission. By coincidence, our piece on urban renewal and reparations just appeared! rockinst.org/blog/the-his...

An update on our ongoing work on the Green Book Cleveland project csudigitalhumanities.org/2023/12/prog...

DH Folks, I am delighted to be a part of planning the 2024 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference, which will take place at McGill from the 16th-19th of June. If you could please lend a hand in sharing this CFP, that would be fantastic: csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...

My essay situating Atlanta's Residential Security maps within the city's longer history of segregationist policy is up on Mapping Inequality's new and improved site. Looking forward to exploring the other essays and many new features dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...

I had a great group of CSU public history students this fall who curated location narratives for the Green Book Cleveland project. A similar class at UAkron also participated in the project. Here’s one of my students’ pieces about Paradise Auditorium. greenbookcleveland.org/locations/pa...