Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Bauman, John F., and David Schuyler, “Urban Politics and the Vision of a Modern City: Philadelphia and Lancaster after World War II,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132 (Oct. 2008), 377–402.
Cleary, Patricia, “Drinking, Dying, and Lying to Priests: Community Bonds and Conflicts over Authority in Colonial St. Louis,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (Oct. 2008), 1–21.
Cornelius, Janet Duitsman, “Danville’s ‘Sin City’ and Reform, 1900–1920,” Journal of Illinois History, 11 (Summer 2008), 95–110.
Daniels, Brigham, “Revitalizing Zion: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and Today’s Urban Sprawl,” Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law, 28 (no. 2, 2008), 257–300.
Freeman, Damon, “Kenneth B. Clark and the Problem of Power,” Patterns of Prejudice (London), 42 (Sept. 2008), 413–37.
Lowe, Theodore M., “Racial Politics in Dallas in the Twentieth Century,” East Texas Historical Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2008), 27–41.
Robinson, Owen, “Truly Strange New Orleans: The Unstable City in George Washington Cable’s Strange True Stories of Louisiana,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 2, 2007), 97–108.
Shelton, Tamara Venit, “Unmaking Historic Spaces: Urban Progress and the San Francisco Cemetery Debate, 1895–1937,” California History, 85 (no. 3, 2008), 26–47.
Cowan, Aaron B., “A Nice Place to Visit: Tourism, Urban Revitalization, and the Transformation of Postwar American Cities” (University of Cincinnati, 2007). Order No. DA3302720.
Estrada, Vanesa, “Racial Inequality and Homeownership Transitions in the U.S., 1968–2003” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3299547.
Hae, Laam, “Zoning Out Dance Clubs in Manhattan: Gentrification and the Changing Landscapes of Alternative Cultures” (Syracuse University, 2007). Order No. DA3295522.
Hubbell, Jeremy Wayne, “Minneapolis: Urban-Environmental Change in the Upper Mississippi, 1824–1924” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3299729.
Kwak, Nancy Haekyung, “A Citizen’s Right to Decent Shelter: Public Housing in New York, London, and Singapore, 1945 to 1970” (Columbia University, 2006). Order No. DA3299322.
Lindsey, Delario A., “Controlling the Spectacular World City: A Discursive Analysis of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Making of Giuliani’s New York” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3301799.
Logan, Cameron, “The Constituent Landscape: History, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C., 1950–1990” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3295055.
Valle, Carlos, “Urban Growth and Limited Prosperity: A History of Public Housing in Laredo, Texas—1938 to 2006” (University of New Orleans, 2007). Order No. DA3292306.
Birch, Eugenie L., and Susan M. Wachter, eds., Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xii, 392 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8122-2037-7.)
Golenbock, Peter, In the Country of Brooklyn: Inspiration to the World. (New York: Morrow, 2008. xvi, 684 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-06-125381-2.)
Gumprecht, Blake, The American College Town. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xxii, 438 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-671-2.)
Hines, Thomas S., Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xxviii, 445 pp. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-226-34172-9.) Originially published in 1974.
Keim, Norman O., Our Movie Houses: A History of Film and Cinematic Innovation in Central New York. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xx, 181 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0896-7.)
Sharpe, William Chapman, New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850–1950. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxii, 402 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-13324-9.) Heavily illustrated.
Yamin, Rebecca, Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. xvi, 240 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-300-10091-4.) Heavily illustrated.
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