US Urban History Starter Pack
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@dphochfelder.bsky.social
@bgoldst.bsky.social
Urban & architectural historian at Swarthmore. Writing: If Architecture Were for People: The Life and Work of J. Max Bond Jr. Wrote: The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem. Architecture & race, cities, baseball, jazz.
@lawrencecphd.bsky.social
Historian of environment/climate/cities/culture. SLC via AL and LA; UCLA Bruin. Book: The Frontier of Leisure: SoCal and the Shaping of Modern America; currently writing a book about climate and history in the US and North America.
@marksantow.bsky.social
Historian of US cities, race, social policy. Saul Alinsky and the Dilemma of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City (UChicago Press 2024). Director Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative (PCVI): https://pvdvets.org/
@soggypebble.bsky.social
I write about buildings as a historian with the National Park Service. Currently writing a book about how museums became landlords. https://www.brian-whetstone.com/
@drangelasutton.bsky.social
Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade Professor: Communication of Science & Tech Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database www.buildersanddefenders.org www.AngelaSutton.info I speak for me only.
@punkademic.bsky.social
Professor | Dad | Noisemaker | Half-Steeler | Pro-Luddite | Books - One Less Car: Bicycling & the Politics of Automobility, Punkademics, The NFL: Critical & Cultural Perspectives | Views are mine alone, not Penn State’s | https://linktr.ee/punkademic
@emlieb.bsky.social
Historian, writer, killjoy. Tried nothing; all out of ideas. Preorder ROAD TO NOWHERE: HOW A HIGHWAY MAP WRECKED BALTIMORE (coming November 2025) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo255390347.html she/her emilylieb.com
@srober30.bsky.social
Professor of History at George Mason University; co-creator of Digital Harlem; author of Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935, https://harlemindisorder.org; https://drstephenrobertson.com
@ansleyerickson.bsky.social
US cities & schools, historically. Russell Sage Visiting Scholar this year. Books: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem. Thoughts here represent me, not my employer. www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ate11 nyccivilrightshistory.org
@timothyjlombardo.bsky.social
Historian. Professional and personal interests in cities, politics, labor, punk rock, beer, higher ed, and all things Philadelphia. Author, Blue-Collar Conservatism (https://tinyurl.com/587bfhcy). Other projects in the works, probably
@hangryhistorian.bsky.social
Phd Candidate | Digital Humanities | Public History | Borderlands Save the Adobes
@sienriquez.bsky.social
Mujer de la Frontera | Mex-Tex in the Midwest | Assoc. Prof. of Chicanx, Urban, & Public History @ UMKC | Angry feminist |
@lwieck.bsky.social
Historian of 20th and 21st cities, US West, race and culture. Associate Professor and Director of Public History at St. Mary's Univ. Lover of books, coffee, and flowers.
@blindeke.bsky.social
Urban Geographer @ UMN. Cityscape columnist @ Minnpost. Skyway Don Quixote. Tread lightly on earth. he/him Author of "St. Paul: Urban Biography”
@ellakhoward.bsky.social
Professor, first gen, historian of cities, current book project on history of historic preservation districts Author of Homeless: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812244724/homeless/ ellakhoward.com
@melanienewport.bsky.social
US carceral and urban history, jail and policing. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account.
@shannanclark.bsky.social
Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Also in https://scholarsforanewdealforhighered.org
@jorgenleal.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of History UC Riverside Mexican American History | Latinx Cultural Expressions | US & SoCal Historian | LÁ 90s Youth Cultures y lo que salga esta semana... https://www.jorgenicolasleal.com/
@maryrizzo.bsky.social
History prof at Rutgers-Newark. Author of Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and The Wire and Class Acts: Young Men and the Rise of Lifestyle. Anti-ICE activist in NJ. Diehard sewist.
@urbanhistorya.bsky.social
If you're into cities and their histories, then you're into the Urban History Association!
@tomsugrue.bsky.social
Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
@marksouther.bsky.social
Cleveland-based urban, public, & digital historian | author of New Orleans on Parade, Believing in Cleveland, Sandhill Cities (2025) | Clvd Historical, Green Book Clvd | trumpeter @ Clvd Repertory Orch, Clvd Winds, Euclid Sym Orch | https://marksouther.org
@mpeterf.bsky.social
Historian, author of COLORED PROPERTY, and grateful for Richard Scarry books. Money is credit and a creature of law.
@rebeccawingo.bsky.social
Settler Scholar Assoc. Prof & Director of #PublicHistory University of Cincinnati Western & Indigenous History Current Research: Photography, Apsáalooke, Wyandot(te), Rondo, Digital Archives http://pronoun.is/she
@langealexandra.bsky.social
Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
@danielkayhertz.bsky.social
Personal account. Housing Director at Impact for Equity, a law and policy center in Chicago. Former policy director, Chicago Department of Housing. Book "The Battle of Lincoln Park" on the origins of gentrification in Chicago. 🍝& 🚌
@brentcebul.bsky.social
I teach history and write about US politics, cities, and inequality, most recently in ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn Press, 2023).
@toddmichney.bsky.social
U.S. urban historian. Redlining and New Deal housing policy; African Americans and the U.S. construction industry 1865-1965; American homeownership 1880-1950. https://hsoc.gatech.edu/people/person/todd-michney
@lwinling.bsky.social
A tall, bold slugger | Author, Building the Ivory Tower (2017), Property Wrongs (coming) | Live in Cville, Teach in Bburg, Heart in Chicago | Sailing and boat building at IG (@ladalewinling)
@lizgreenspan.bsky.social
writer | in process: cultural history of cities & '70s, Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi (W.W. Norton; Pushkin Press) | board member @ Blue Stoop | Philadelphia https://elizabethgreenspan.com/
@urbanrenewal.bsky.social
Expect maps, renderings, appraisal photos, and stories about people who lost homes and businesses to redevelopment. (Guest appearances by The Monster Cat.) https://urbanrenewal.substack.com https://98acresinalbany.wordpress.com
@dphochfelder.bsky.social
Author of The Telegraph in America (JHUP 2012). Now working on a digital/public history of urban renewal in New York State and beyond. Check out some of our (Ann Pfau, Stacy Sewell, and me) work at https://considerthesourceny.org/access/topic/urban-renewal