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@howlinwolfson.bsky.socialReposted by @urbanhistorya.bsky.socialI got to write about New York’s history of losing revolutionary fights for freedom and how those battles are memorialized the Urban History Association’s blog! Come for the Knicks, stay for the slave uprisings. (Or vice versa.)
@urbanhistorya.bsky.socialRevolution or Nostalgia? The Story of Urban Renewal, Victor Gruen, and Knoxville This is the sixth entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.” By Sara Naghibizadeh In the summer of 2026, Knoxville's Mountain View neighborhood feels emptied of life. Walking through, I…
@urbanhistorya.bsky.social“La Révolution Est Morte. Vive La Révolution!”: The Battles Lost in New York City This is the fifth entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.” By Deborah Wolfson New York City likes to tilt itself towards the future—ever upwards, always remaking itself and its…
@urbanhistorya.bsky.socialNew on the blog! @heatherjahrling.bsky.social on Cold War civil defense and the "silent revolution" in policing American cities.
@urbanhistorya.bsky.socialNew on the blog! In the third entry for our Graduate Student Blogging Contest,@mariarosefrancis.bsky.social examines the impact of the Community Media Project in Milwaukee:
@urbanhistorya.bsky.socialNew on the blog! The second entry in our graduate student blogging contest: @veeelcee.bsky.social compares the application of Mayan Revival style in California and Mexico in the 1920s:
@urbanhistorya.bsky.socialGrassroots vs. Burned Grass: A History of Wheat, Pollution, and Advocacy on the Palouse
This is the first entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, "Revolution." By Sarah Daisy Amador Farmers in the Palouse, a pastoral region encompassing southeastern Washington and central…
@urbanhistorya.bsky.socialFrom Colonial Garden to Public Stadium: Eden Gardens and the Urban History of Play in Kolkata This is the ninth post in our themed series, Cities at Play. By Jason Collins To this day, Eden Gardens is fondly remembered as one of the greatest cricket venues of the modern world, a reputation built…
