Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Baumann, Timothy, Andrew Hurley, and Lori Allen, “Economic Stability and Social Identity: Historic Preservation in Old North St. Louis,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 70–87.
Foster, Jonathan, “Stigma Cities: Birmingham and Las Vegas in the National Newspaper Media, 1945–2000,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Winter 2007), 297–324.
Johnson, Katherine M., “‘The Glorified Municipality’: State Formation and the Urban Process in North America,” Political Geography (Oxford), 27 (May 2008), 400–417.
Kessenides, James, “The Tropical Turn: Los Angeles before the Movies,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.
Miyata, Ichiro, “Manufacturing Segregation: The Birth and Death of Underground Atlanta, 1969–1981,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 19 (2008), 239–58.
Plank, Lisa, and Thomas Saylor, “Constructing Suburbia: Richfield in the Postwar Era,” Minnesota History, 61 (Summer 2008), 48–61. Heavily illustrated.
Purser, Margaret, and Noelle Shaver, “Plats and Place: The Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Speculation Townsites on the Sacramento River,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 26–46.
Rotman, Deborah L., and R. Berle Clay, “Urban Archaeology at the Site of the Argosy Casino: The Materiality of Social Change in the Canal Town of Lawrenceburg, Southern Indiana,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 47–69.
Warner, Mark S., and Robert A. Genheimer, “‘Cats Here, Cats There, Cats and Kittens Everywhere’: An Urban Extermination of Cats in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no.1, 2008), 11–25.
Arena, John D., “Winds of Change before Katrina: New Orleans’ Public Housing Struggles within a Race, Class, and Gender Dialectic” (Tulane University, 2007). Order No. DA3289688.
Berger, Jane A., “When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay: Gender and the Urban Crisis in Baltimore, 1945–1985” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3286772.
Gish, Todd Douglas, “Building Los Angeles: Urban Housing in the Suburban Metropolis, 1900–1936” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3278383.
Houser, Patricia McMahon, “Gotham’s Drinking Cup: The 19th Century Struggle to Protect New York City’s Croton Watershed” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285091.
Liazos, Ariane Mary Aphrodite, “The Movement for ‘Good City Government’: Municipal Leagues, Political Science, and the Contested Meaning of Progressive Democracy, 1880–1930” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285505.
Livie, Kyle Mitchell, “Wide Open Spaces: Rural Communities and the Making of Metropolitan California, 1870–1940” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3280982.
Lloyd, Joanne, “Beneath the ‘City on the Hill’: The Lower Orders, Boston, 1700–1850” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3288830.
O’Hara, S. Paul, “The End of Utopia: Imagining the Rise and Fall of Gary, Indiana” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3277990.
Quinn, Kelly Anne, “Making Modern Homes: A History of Langston Terrace Dwellings, a New Deal Housing Program in Washington, D.C.” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283424.
Ritter, Jonathan, “The American Civic Center: Urban Ideals and Compromise on the Ground” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3283366.
Roth, Matthew William, “Concrete Utopia: The Development of Roads and Freeways in Los Angeles, 1910–1950” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3283519.
Fenske, Gail, The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiv, 400 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-226-24141-8.)
Golway, Terry, ed., Catholics in New York: Society, Culture, and Politics, 1808–1946. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. 206 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8232-2904-8.) Heavily illustrated. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Kargon, Robert H., and Arthur P. Molella, Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century. (Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2008. x, 190 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-262-11320-5.)
Mitchell, John Hanson, The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. xvi, 254 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8070-7148-9.)
Wolf, Michael Allan, The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xvi, 188 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1620-6. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1621-3.)
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