Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Halus, Eugene J., Jr., “The Difficult Ethnic and Religious Mind of Dennis Clark,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 45–57.
Harris, Richard, “A New Form of Credit: The State Promotes Home Improvement, 1934–1954,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 4, 2009), 392–423.
K’Meyer, Tracy E., “‘Well, I’m Not Moving’: Open Housing and White Activism in the Long Civil Rights Movement,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 2 (June 2009), 1–24.
Lasner, Matthew Gordon, “Own-Your-Owns, Co-ops, Town Houses: Hybrid Housing Types and the New Urban Form in Postwar Southern California,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 68 (Sept. 2009), 378–403.
Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna, “Patriotism and Protest: Union Square as Public Space, 1832–1932,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 68 (Dec. 2009), 540–59. Heavily illustrated.
Murphy, Michael J., “Developing Communities: The uaw and Community Unions in Los Angeles, 1965–1974,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 6 (Winter 2009), 19–39.
Rzeznik, Thomas, “The Church in the Changing City: Parochial Restructuring in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Historical Perspective,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Fall 2009), 73–90.
Stoykovich, Eric C., “The Culture of Improvement in the Early Republic: Domestic Livestock, Animal Breeding, and Philadelphia’s Urban Gentlemen, 1820–1860,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 134 (Jan. 2010), 31–58.
Camp, Stacey Lynn, “Materializing Inequality: The Archaelogy of Citizenship and Race in Early 20th Century Los Angeles” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3351429.
D’Amore, Maura, “‘Country Life within City Reach’: Masculine Domesticity in Suburban America, 1819-1871” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3352867.
Deener, Andrew Scott, “Venice, California: Community, Diversity, and the Politics of Urban Change in a Los Angeles Beach Town” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3347022.
Dell, Twyla, “Flame, Furnace, Fuel: Creating Kansas City in the Nineteenth Century” (Antioch New England Graduate School, 2009). Order No. DA3357563.
Higgins, James E., “Keystone of an Epidemic: Pennsylvania’s Urban Experience during the 1918–1920 Influenza Epidemic” (Lehigh University, 2009). Order No. DA3354767.
Highsmith, Andrew R., “Demolition Means Progress: Race, Class, and the Deconstruction of the American Dream in Flint, Michigan” (University of Michigan, 2009). Order No. DA3354168.
Hostutler, Jason, “Smokestacks and Steeples: A Case Study of the Reciprocal Relationship between the Catholic Church and Industrial Milwaukee, 1870–1929” (Marquette University, 2009). Order No. DA3357954.
Ides, Matthew Allan, “Cruising for Community: Youth Culture and Politics in Los Angeles, 1910–1970” (University of Michigan, 2009). Order No. DA3354175.
Kaljee, Linda Marie, “‘Golden’ Histories, Tarnished Cities: Contesting the ‘Problems’ of Poverty and Violence in African American Urban Communities, Baltimore, MD” (American University, 1996). Order No. DA3351147.
Kendrick, Megan McLeod, “Stay in L.A.: Hotels and the Representation of Urban Public Space in Los Angeles, 1880s–1950s” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3355271.
Pehl, Matthew, “Power in the Blood: Class, Culture, and Christianity in Industrial Detroit, 1910–1969” (Brandeis University, 2009). Order No. DA3352998.
Ramey, Jessie B., “A Childcare Crisis: Poor Black and White Families and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878–1929” (Carnegie Mellon University, 2009). Order No. DA3353015.
Sharp, Charles Michael, “Improvisation, Identity, and Tradition: Experimental Music Communities in Los Angeles” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3354402.
Sol, David, “Watershed Moments: An Environmental History of the New York City Water Supply” (Brandeis University, 2009). Order No. DA3354512.
Taylor, Dorceta E., The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s–1900s: Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xii, 626 pp. Cloth, $99.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4436-0. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4451-3.)
Turnbull, Craig, An American Urban Residential Landscape, 1890–1920: Chicago in the Progressive Era. (Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria, 2009. xx, 383 pp. $124.99, isbn 978-1-60497-613-7.)
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