Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Acosta, Jesús Ángel Enríquez, “Migration and Urbanization in Nortwest Mexico’s Border Cities,” Journal of the Southwest, 51 (Winter 2009), 445–55.
Bednarek, Janet R. Daly, “Creating an ‘Image Center’: Reimagining Omaha’s Downtown and Riverfront, 1986–2003,” Nebraska History, 90 (Winter 2009), 190–207. Heavily illustrated.
Biehlera, Dawn Day, “Flies, Manure, and Window Screens: Medical Entomology and Environmental Reform in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Cities,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 36 (Jan. 2010), 68–78.
Bloom, Matthew, “Symbiotic Growth in the Swamp: Toledo and Northwest Ohio, 1860–1900,” Northwest Ohio History, 77 (Spring 2010), 85–104.
Corey, Joseph C., and Jason E. Taylor, “‘Oversell and Underperform’: The Impact of Great Society Economic Programs upon the City of Detroit, 1964–1968,” Essays in Economic and Business History, 28 (2010), 73–90.
Crowder, Ralph L., “The Historical Context and Political Significance of Harlem’s Street Scholar Community,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 34–71.
Davies, John, “Saint-Dominguan Refugees of African Descent and the Forging of Ethnic Identity in Early National Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 134 (April 2010), 109–26.
Elmore, Bartow, “Hydrology and Residential Segregation in the Postwar South: An Environmental History of Atlanta, 1865–1895,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 94 (Spring 2010), 30–61.
Kramer, Carl E., “The Evolution of the Residential Land Subdivision Process in Louisville, 1772–2008,” The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 107 (Winter 2009), 33–81.
Loewen, James W., “Sundown Towns and Counties: Racial Exclusion in the South,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Spring 2009), 22–47.
Pendleton, Stephen, “Ernest Wende and Buffalo’s Transition to Modern Public Health Policy, 1892–1910,” New York History, 90 (Fall 2009), 287–311.
Rast, Joel, “Critical Junctures, Long-Term Processes: Urban Redevelopment in Chicago and Milwaukee, 1945–1980,” Social Science History, 33 (Winter 2009), 393–426.
Reitano, Joanne, “Moving Minds and Mountains: African Americans in New York City from 1919 to 1945,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 34 (Jan. 2010), 118–34.
Sandul, Paul J. P., “The Agriburb: Recalling the Suburban Side of Ontario, California’s Agricultural Colonization,” Agricultural History, 84 (Spring 2010), 195–223.
Schad, Jasper G., “‘A City of Picture Buyers’: Art, Identity, and Aspiration in Los Angeles and Southern California, 1891–1914,” Southern California Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2010), 19–50.
Smith, Andrea, and Rachel Scarpato, “The Language of ‘Blight’ and Easton’s ‘Lebanese Town’: Understanding a Neighborhood’s Loss to Urban Renewal,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 134 (April 2010), 127–64.
Spear, Michael, “The Struggle to Build a Progressive Urban Politics: Frank Barbaro’s 1981 New York City Mayoral Campaign,” New York History, 91 (Winter 2010), 45–69.
Stepenoff, Bonnie, “Child Savers and St. Louis Newsboys, 1896–1948,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (April 2010), 125–37. Heavily illustrated.
Stoever-Ackerman, Jennifer, “Splicing the Sonic Color-Line: Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York,” Social Text, 28 (Spring 2010), 59–85.
Wechsler, Harold S., “Brewing Bachelors: The History of the University of Newark,” Paedagogica Historica (Gent), 46 (Feb. 2010), 229–49.
Zukowski, Suzanne M., “From Peasant to Proletarian: Home Ownership in Milwaukee’s Polonia,” Polish American Studies, 66 (Autumn 2009), 5–44.
Baldwin, Eric, “Religion and the American Industrial City: Protestant Culture and Social Transformation in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1824–1890” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3363596.
Casavantes, Michael D., “Polishing the Jewel: The Arizona Republic and the Growth and Development of Phoenix, 1920–1958” (Arizona State University, 2009). Order No. DA3361277.
Hoskins, Steven, “A Restless Landscape: Building Nashville History and Seventh and Drexel” (Middle Tennessee State University, 2009). Order No. DA3361585.
Inouye, Daniel H., “Nine Clouds: A Social History of New York City Nikkei, vol. 1, 1900–1940” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3360480.
Kray, Ryan M., “Second-Class Citizenship at a First-Class Resort: Race and Public Policy in Palm Springs” (University of California, Irvine, 2009). Order No. DA3360926.
Mitrani, Sam, “Order in the Metropolis: The Origins of the Chicago Police Department, 1850–1890” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3364623.
Moran, Brendan Daniel, “Sociological Imagination and the City: Encounters between Architecture and Planning Education in America, 1933–1957” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365362.
Pettengill, Ryan S., “Communists and Community: Unionism and the Rise and Fall of Community Activism in Detroit, 1932–1968” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3364733.
Reaven, Marci, “Citizen Participation in City Planning, New York City, 1945–1975” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA33653737.
Sheppard, Rebecca Jean, “Making the Farm Pay: Persistence and Adaptation in the Evolution of Delaware’s Agricultural Landscape, 1780–2005” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3360281.
Simon, Malka, “The Space of Production: Brooklyn and the Creation of an Urban Industrial Landscape” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3365749.
Berman, Marshall, On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square. (New York: Verso, 2009. xxxvi, 264 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84467-397-1.) Originally published in 2006.
Goldstein, Richard, Helluva Town: The Story of New York City during World War II. (New York: Free Press, 2010. xii, 321 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-1-4165-8996-9.)
Gordon, Eric, The Urban Spectator: American Concept-Cities from Kodak to Google. (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2010. xii, 228 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58465-803-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Gratz, Roberta Brandes, The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. (New York: Nation Books, 2010. l, 350 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-1-56858-438-6.)
Grimes, William, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. (New York: North Point, 2009. xiv, 368 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-86547-692-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Kushner, David, Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb. (New York: Walker & Company, 2009. xvi, 237 pp. Cloth, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8027-1619-4.)
Rushing, Wanda, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 15: Urbanization. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xx, 262 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3370-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8078-7139-3.)
Vitiello, Domenic, The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the City It Made. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. xvi, 253 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8122-4224-9.)
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