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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On 10/1 I’ll discuss the conceptualization and evolution of @cphdh.bsky.social projects Cleveland Historical and Green Book Cleveland (plus the Curatescape and PlacePress plugins they use) with the Center for Urban History in Lviv. On Zoom with registration. www.lvivcenter.org/en/discussio...

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"Cleveland Historical" and "Green Book Cleveland". Building & Sustaining Place-Based Digital Public History

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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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...

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

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

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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...

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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

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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 · 10/10/2025

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

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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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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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! ⤵ ⤵ ⤵

Ornate historic ballroom with a grand piano centered on a circular patterned carpet beneath chandeliers. The room features high ceilings with decorative gold panels, tall arched windows draped with gold curtains, and intricate wall moldings. A balustrade and a short staircase with potted plants frame the raised stage area, giving the space a formal and elegant atmosphere. The rug is super ornate and has a flower theme.

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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

A 3D reconstruction map of Seneca Village overlaid on a historic street grid of Manhattan, with labeled streets including 82nd Street, 86th Street, and 8th Avenue/Central Park West. The rendering depicts fields, gardens, houses, and roads that made up the 19th-century community. At the top of the image, large black text reads: “Envisioning Seneca Village — Through the tools of archives, archaeology, and virtual reality.”

A digital reconstruction of a 19th-century rural community landscape, depicting Seneca Village. In the foreground, a small stream winds through grassy terrain with wildflowers and wooden fences. A large two-story white house with columns and lit windows stands prominently to the right, with smoke rising from its chimney. Nearby are smaller houses, gardens, and fenced areas with animals, set against a backdrop of dramatic clouds and trees, including willows. The scene evokes a peaceful, lived-in environment. It is a working landscape and the color palette is serene, with yellows, greens, beiges, white-painted homes and a sky with what looks like coal smoke on one side and large cumulus white clouds on other, looming above the horizon.

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

#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

A detailed 3D wireframe model of a dense urban neighborhood, showing a mix of early 20th-century residential and commercial buildings. The scene includes multi-story apartment houses with bay windows and decorative façades in the foreground, as well as row houses, small shops, and mid-rise buildings receding into the background. The model is rendered in pastel colors with visible polygon edges, suggesting it is being viewed in a 3D modeling environment.

Closer-up view of the same model referenced in the last image, now at just above building-height.

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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.

Los Angeles cityscape collage near city hall in hues of red, brown, ultramarine, and beige, with the hashtag #UHA2025LA on top and a palm tree behind. The #LA hashtag is in a blue circle with an abstract city street grid.

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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....

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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 · 16/12/2024

Anne, I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. Wishing you comfort and peace.

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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...

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Great read. Yes, how telling that the files are locked away from public access. Just subscribed to your Substack. I’m also enjoying seeing the digital project as it develops.

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Researching Urban Renewal (formerly 98 Acres in Albany) @urbanrenewal.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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...

Cover image from “A Day at Lincoln Square,” a play by Charles D. Atkinson, illustrated by Midgette. The iconic design of Lincoln Center overshadows a family of six, bags packed and dog in tow, presumably on their way out. Braislin, Porter & Wheelock is printed on their bags. Rockefeller Archives.

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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.

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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

Weather radar showing snowfall and warning area in NE Ohio

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I enjoyed your discussion of your book on Ben Franklin’s World, and we talked about it in my public history class earlier this month.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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

Picture of Seth’s book, Plantation Goods: A Material History of Slavery

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Brenden W. Rensink 📚🏃‍♂️⛰ @brendenwrensink.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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...

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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)

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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.

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Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

"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

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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 · 13/11/2024

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

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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 · 11/11/2024

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...

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

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

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Researching Urban Renewal (formerly 98 Acres in Albany) @urbanrenewal.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

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

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

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.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

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

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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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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

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

Title page text: SANDHILL CITIES: Metropolitan Ambitions in Augusta, Columbus, and Macon, Georgia; J. Mark Souther

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List of Illustrations / x
Acknowledgments / x

Introduction / X
Chapter 1 The Heart of Georgia / XX
Chapter 2 The Winter Capital of America / XX
Chapter 3 Metropolis of the Chattahoochee Valley / XX
Chapter 4 Planning “The South’s Most Progressive City” / XX
Chapter 5 What Augusta Builds, Builds Augusta / XXX
Chapter 6 Building the Future from Our Past / XXX
Epilogue ~ Where Soul Lives / XXX

Notes / XXX
Bibliography / XXX
Index / XXX

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

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.

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

It’s built using WordPress and the PlacePress plugin we developed at the CSU Center for Public History + Digital Humanities with generous grant support from @neh-odh.bsky.social wpplacepress.org

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

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...

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Green Book Cleveland: The history Black recreation and leisure

Locations, including Leo’s Casino and the Majestic Hotel are no longer standing but their stories are in The Green Book Cleveland.

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

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

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

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

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

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!

Licastro shows a setting of a space created to purposely look melty and imperfect—purposefully

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

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

Zach Whalen’s title slide sharing QR codes to access his “data bookification” of his hiking trek in Shenandoah National Forest

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

“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

Just one of many many viz and sonification experiments that Micki Kaufman shows us in her presentation!

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Mark Souther @marksouther.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

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

Downtown skyline beyond harbor and marina

Looking across Presque Isle Bay toward Presque Isle with open waters of Lake Erie beyond

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Stephen Robertson @srober30.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

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

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