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Mark Souther

@marksouther.bsky.social

Cleveland-based urban, public, & digital historian | author of New Orleans on Parade, Believing in Cleveland, Sandhill Cities | CLE Historical, Green Book CLE | trumpeter @ CLE Repertory Orchestra, Cleveland Winds, Euclid Sym Orch | https://marksouther.org

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Urban History Association (the official account)@urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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...

Urban History Association (the official account)@urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10mo ago

⑵ Besides posting here during #UHA2025LA @charlotte-leib.bsky.social will be sharing a digital project this #Friday in #LA Titled "Wild Rice and Munsee Lenape Lifeways in the New Jersey Meadowlands," it is part of #OurLandOurStories our-land-our-stories.libraries.rutgers.edu/exhibits/sho... #envhist

Screenshot of a digital interactive map. The map comprises of several components. In the background are two side-by-side basemaps occupying different portions of the screen. The one at the left comprises of historical black & white aerial imagery from the 1930s. It shows a patchwork landscape of urban development, rivers & meadows as seen from a considerable distance above the earth, as in a satellite image (except in this case, the historic black & white imagery was taken from a plane and later stitched together to form the complete "layer" shown on the map). The basemap that appears beside it is a more recent satellite image, from the 2020s, that appears in color. The actual landscape shown is one landscape represented partway by the black & white aerial imagery, and partway by the color aerial imagery. Viewers familiar with New York City's geography will recognize the large rectilinear Central Park in Manhattan, which appears on the map's right-hand side. At left is the part of the landscape represented by the black and white historical aerial imagery, which comprises of Newark, Secaucus, Jersey City, and other towns along the Hudson River and Passaic and Hackensack Rivers. The layers comprise a large metropolitan landscape past and present. Upon the map, 2 areas are highlighted in beige and purple opaque layers. Atop is the purple layer, a white pop-up box with black text reads: " Sëkëxkuk: 'Place of the black snakes.' Departing from Munsee Lenape tradition, colonial settlers rendered Sëkëxkuk as Sikakes. Today, the spot is known as Secaucus in a further phonetic and orthographic distortion of the phrase. The historic presence of snakes in this area, where freshwater and saltwater once met at the penultimate bend of the Hackensack River, is reflected in original Munsee place name and in the name of nearby Snake Hill." Several placemarkers also appear on the map in blue. At the bottom right is a control bar with different map layers that the user can toggle.
Urban History Association (the official account)@urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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: The Music that Created New York

Launched in 2024, Soundscapes N.Y.C. is a podcast about how music created in New York has shaped the history of the city and how throughout its history the city itself has been an incubator for new…

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Urban History Association (the official account)@urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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

Green Book Cleveland

The history of Black entertainment, leisure, and recreation in Northeast Ohio. A project of the CSU Center for Public History + Digital Humanities.

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Mark Souther@marksouther.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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....

Sandhill Cities

Sandhill Cities is a comparative history of Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia, in the twentieth century. Weaving together southern, urban, and environmen...

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Mark Souther@marksouther.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Cassandra Good@cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

First Family: George Washington's Heirs and the Making of America (Original) a book by Cassandra A. Good

*Finalist for the 2024 George Washington Prize!*For readers of Never Caught and You Never Forget Your First, a revealing true story of celebrity, race and the children George Washington raised. While ...

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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome to Bluesky. If you're a writer, don't forget to TELL US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK!

David Hochfelder@dphochfelder.bsky.social · 2y ago

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)

Eddie Valentin@evalentin25.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you’re working on & 2) an idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) Currently working on a book about Black soldiers in the U.S. Army during the post-Civil War era (based off my dissertation).

Mark Souther@marksouther.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Eddie Valentin@evalentin25.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you’re working on & 2) an idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. 1) Currently working on a book about Black soldiers in the U.S. Army during the post-Civil War era (based off my dissertation).

Urban History Association (the official account)@urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 2y ago

"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

The “World City” at Work: How Street Vendors Transformed Global L.A

By David Helps Jorge Cruz Cortes was still a teenager when the Los Angeles Police Department arrested him for selling household goods without a license in 1989. The eighteen-year-old from Oaxaca, M…

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Chris Cantwell@cdc29.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

History, Assistant Professor of Public History, Tenure Track

The candidate will have a PhD in History or a closely related field at the time of appointment. Candidates for the position must demonstrate clear potential for excellence in research and teaching, ob...

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Mark Souther@marksouther.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

Review: Streetscape Palimpsest · Vol. 5, No. 6

A review of Streetscape Palimpsest, a project focusing on the history of an Atlanta street that is being buried under redevelopment, directed by Marni Davis

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