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“Just Leave the Churches Alone”: Church Zoning Battles in Post-World War II...
This second entry in our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest, in which we challenged authors to write about instances where city initiatives may have “Stumbled,” is by Benjamin J. Young. He writes...
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“Jackrabbiting” Away from Urban Spaces
The third entry in our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest is by Julie Haltom. She writes about the myriad of stumbling blocks faced by mid-twentieth-century homesteaders in Southern California’s...
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Bound Aid
Our fourth author in the 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest, Allie Goodman, describes the experience of a young woman and her family “stumbling through” efforts to obtain assistance provided by a...
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The Neighborhood Nuisance: One Woman’s Crusade to Shape Brooklyn
For our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest, we asked for stories about projects that faced “stumbling blocks.” There were a multitude of them placed in the path of Mabel E. Macomber, a Progressive...
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Stumbling into Submission: How Real Estate and Finance Capital Conquered New...
The theme for our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest is “Stumble.” Our sixth entrant, Katelin Penner, discusses how leaders in real estate and finance forced New York City government to stumble...
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Annexation Politics & Manufacturing Blight in a Black St. Louis Suburb
The seventh entry in this year’s Graduate Student Blogging Contest is by Bridget Laramie Kelly, who won last year’s blogging contest. In this year’s entry, she writes about how a historic Black suburb...
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Stumbling Upon Stillburg: Using Memory and Research to Revive a Forgotten...
Inga Gudmundsson McGuire writes about how discovering that her ancestor was a Pittsburgh architect inspired her to learn more about him and ensure that his memory and legacy are not forgotten in the...
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Yan Zongo: A Research Note on Accra’s Strangers
The ninth and final post from our 2023 Graduate Student Blogging Contest is from Fauziyatu Moro. She writes about how stumbling onto the important mementos of immigrants, while doing fieldwork in...
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Grad Student Blogging Contest 2023 Roundup
For those of us over forty, and particularly for folks from the middle, few bands loom as large as The Replacements, the greatest band that never was. Paul Westerberg and his bandmates stumbled their...
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Announcing the Winner of the Seventh Annual UHA/The Metropole Grad Student...
In order to further the ability of emerging historians to use online platforms to teach beyond the classroom, market scholarship, and promote the enduring value of the humanities, The Metropole/UHA...
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