Wondrous red, yellow, blue hues on the New Haven Green 📸 this morning

The special issue of Eighteenth Century Studies on Coasts is now out - glad to be part of it with some thoughts about coasts and gardens in c18 Ireland #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies 🌊 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

#Frog stocks! One of the many ways speculators tried to "improve" the value & productivity of #NJ #Meadowlands in the 19th c I have this one filed under "frog capitalist" in my research notes 💭🐸💰 ...An 1860s attempt to make the #Meadows yield more #frogs before pollution in the 1880s killed them.

Where are we on housing policy this election evening? —NIMBY NJ Gubernatorial candidate loses decisively. —Mamdani, promising to pause rent increase & develop 200k affordable units, wins NYC decisively. —All pro-housing referendums in NYC likely passed. —Housing funding passed in Columbus & Denver.

Charlotte's transport referendum has won. 1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding: —Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension —Road projects (40%) —Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)

All the good passwords must’ve been stolen by the British Museum

As I prepare to submit my #diss this year, I'm starting a thread with photos of the many #bird species that are denizens of my #research site, the #NJMeadowlands. Follow along to learn your #birds with me, And get to know this astounding ecology near #NewarkAirport ! #BergenCounty #HackensackRiver

William R. Derrick - "The Plaza" (c.1907)

Timely essay for this eve of Daylight Savings by Indigenous #envhum scholar Rachelle Wilson Tollemar @uwmadison.bsky.social On how manipulating #time (and #light) got settler societies out of sync.

A spooky sidewalk riddle 👻 🍃: 🕸️🕷️☁️ 🕊️🐛🦅 ——/——/——/——/——/—— Two types of fall fiber— One fatal, the other forgiving— Forbid the former, and more creatures would keep living.

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

The #bees 🐝 have gone but the Dahlia blooms are still on! I’ve been passing this sidewalk plant nearly daily in #NewHaven since July. With the night chill now, and recent new #moon 🌙, I’m relishing what’s left. Still brilliant 😍 #fall #flowers

Here’s to the small things The sun setting in the west The things that with the world upside down persist, maintain

this is like the inflatable frogs of comments threads.

My favorite Owl is in the backyard today here in #SantaBarbara and he's ready to #SeizeTheMoment! #TridentsUp #Mariners #Game7 #ALCS

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Check out the newest #envhist journal!

Ah, the subversive power of humor! (Just catching up on these #frog protests)

Saw some nice #gneiss out here today on the #ThimbleIslands Thanks to @yalewhc.bsky.social @paulsabin.bsky.social for coordinating the trip! #envhum #envhist #Connecticut #LongIslandSound

In addition to focusing on how lighting #technologies have affected #birds over the ages... (...and not just the glassy windows & bright skylines that harm birds today—think: #penguins 🐧, #oil, and #kerosene…), the article makes four main points. Thread: ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶

Midday #LA hike break after flight cancellation 🤩 #BaldwinHills #LosAngeles

“[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.”

I expected the Seattle Mariners to show signs of fatigue tonight in Toronto. Instead, against a Blue Jays club that doesn't strike out, Bryce Miller and Cal Raleigh showed us who they believe they are. www.lookoutlanding.com/game-recap/1...

I just wanted to share some more photos from the great beach history tour led by @elsadevienne.bsky.social and alisonrosejefferson.com in Santa Monica today as part of the Urban History Association’s conference! #UHA2025LA

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...

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

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

Launching an interactive digital map and database of Detroit’s historic Black-owned businesses. Check it out at freedomenterprise.org

More action from Friday evening 10/10 and today at #UHA2025LA #urbanhist #planninghist #energyhist #envhist #Biltmore #LosAngeles

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

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

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

Happening now! @mapm8ker.bsky.social & co. present their cutting-edge #map -based #K-12 #edu work! #UHA2025LA

A brilliant Saturday in LA #LAArtsDistrict #UHA2025LA

#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”

@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

Printmakers interviewed for the best WA book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt

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 >>>

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

Congrats to this year’s #UHA2025LA award winners, along with last year’s 2024 winners, who are recognized in each of the Urban History Association’s Biennial conferences 🌟🏆

#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

Thank you to all of the #UHA2025LA attendees to stopped by to learn about my digital project this morning at the Urban History Association conference I'll also be sharing " #OurLandOurStories Wild Rice and Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands" from 1-2pm, if you'd like to stop by! #envhist

#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

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

" #SOUNDSCAPES #NYC: Spinning the B Side of History" by Ryan Purcell shares the first slot with Souther's "Green Book Cleveland" in the kickoff session (9am-10:30am) in the #UHA2025LA Gold Room. Come check them out!

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