Recent Scholarship
Urban and Suburban
Barton, Michael, “Almost Our Own Montmartre: Studying Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 405–18.
Caric, Ric N., “From Ordered Buckets to Honored Felons: Fire Companies and Cultural Transformation in Philadelphia, 1785–1850,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Spring 2005), 117–58.
Falck, Zachary, and Marijke Hecht, “The Sewering and Salvaging of Nine Mile Run,” Western Pennsylvania History, 89 (Spring 2006), 40–50.
Gilbert, Stephanie Patterson, “Bakers and Confectioners of Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward, 1890–1917,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 428–42.
Gilbert, Stephanie Patterson, “Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward: Constructing a Website for Student Research,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 419–27.
Heineman, Kenneth J., “Reformation: Monsignor Charles Owen Rice and the Fragmentation of the New Deal Electoral Coalition in Pittsburgh, 1960–1972,” Pennsylvania History, 71 (Winter 2004), 53–85.
Hillier, Amy, “Searching for Red Lines: Spatial Analysis of Lending Patterns in Philadelphia, 1940–1960,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Winter 2005), 25–47.
Hurst, Julie Ann, “Barbershops in Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward, 1890–1905,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 443–53.
Karamanski, Theodore J., “The Legend of Scarface,” Chicago History, 34 (Spring 2006), 4–19. Heavily illustrated.
Kirsch, George B., “Municipal Golf Courses in the United States: 1895 to 1930,” Journal of Sport History, 32 (Spring 2005), 23–44.
Krulikowski, Anne E., “‘Farms Don’t Pay’: The Transformation of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Landscape, 1880–1930,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Spring 2005), 193–227.
McCormick, Charles, “From Seeing Reds to Being Feds: The Pittsburgh Bureau of Investigation Field Office in Transition,” Pennsylvania History, 69 (Summer 2002), 367–92.
Myers, John D., “The Butcher Shops of Harrisburg’s Old Eighth Ward, 1860–1916,” Pennsylvania History, 72 (Autumn 2005), 454–62.
Nightingale, Carl H., “The Transnational Contexts of Early Twentieth-Century American Urban Segregation,” Journal of Social History, 39 (Spring 2006), 667–702.
Park, Jinbin, “Jeongwondosi wha Dosigaehwoik eui Migukgeok Jeongae” (The Garden City movement and city planning in the United States), Soyangsaron/Korean Journal of Western History (Seoul), 84 (March 2005), 143–68. In Korean.
Post, Chris, “Company Town Culture: Sunflower Village, Kansas, in the 1940s,” Material Culture, 37 (Fall 2005), 42–59.
Sidorick, Daniel, “The ‘Girl Army’: The Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike of 1909–1910,” Pennsylvania History, 71 (Summer 2004), 323–69.
Tuckel, Peter, et al., “The Diffusion of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut,” Social Science History, 30 (Summer 2006), 167–96.
Wolkoff, Adam, “Creating a Suburban Ghetto: Public Housing at New Haven’s West Rock, 1945–1979,” Connecticut History, 45 (Spring 2006), 56–93.
Britton, Glenn Worth, “‘Improving’ the Middle Landscape: Conservation and Social Change in Rural Southern Michigan, 1890 to 1940” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3181743.
Fearing, Jeffrey John, “African-American Image, History, and Identity, in Twentieth-Century Washington, D.C., as Chronicled through the Art and Social Realism Photography of Addison N. Scurlock and the Scurlock Studios, 1904–1994” (Howard University, 2005). Order No. DA3184865.
Feerst, Alex Jonathan, “Bowery Beautiful: Progressive Slumming and Ghetto Aesthetics, 1880–1930” (Duke University, 2005). Order No. DA3183938.
Hyra, Derek S., “Race, Politics, and Neighborhood Revitalization: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3181359.
Ostergren, Gail Ann, “Angels and Saints: Making and Promoting Place in Los Angeles and Southern California, 1890–1932” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3181716.
Speights-Binet, Jennifer, “The Road to Redevelopment: New Urbanism, Nostalgia, and the Process of Downtown Revitalization in Baton Rouge, Louisiana” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2004). Order No. DA3182914.
Stanger-Ross, Jordan, “The Choreography of Community: Italian Ethnicity in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3179800.
Starr, Clinton Robert, “Bohemian Resonance: The Beat Generation and Urban Countercultures in the United States during the Late 1950s and Early 1960s” (University of Texas, Austin, 2005). Order No. DA3185984.
Streiff, Meg, “Boston’s Settlement Housing: Social Reform in an Industrial City” (Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2005). Order No. DA3184102.
Wilkens, Mark, “Making the City Work: Municipal Employees and Their Managers in New York City and Philadelphia, 1880–1940” (University of Pennsylvania, 2005). Order No. DA3179831.
Wishnoff, Daniel A., “The Tolerance Point: Race, Public Housing, and the Forest Hills Controversy, 1945–1975” (City University of New York, 2005). Order No. DA3187479.
Witt, Andrew, “‘Picking up the hammer’: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party with Emphasis on the Milwaukee Branch, 1966–1977” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3180965.
Abrahams, Roger D., with Nick Spitzer, John F. Szwed, and Robert Farris Thompson, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 102 pp. $22.50, isbn 0-8122-3959-8.)
Bednar, Michael, L’Enfant’s Legacy: Public Open Spaces in Washington, D. C. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 285 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-8018-8318-0.) Heavily illustrated.
Kingwell, Mark, Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv, 235 pp. $26.00, isbn 0-300-10622-X.)
Mrozowski, Stephen A., The Archaeology of Class in Urban America. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 190 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-521-85394-X.) Heavily illustrated.
O’Connor, Thomas H., The Athens of America: Boston, 1825–1845. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xvi, 218 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 1-55849-524-X. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-55849-518-5.)
Regan, Bob, The Bridges of Pittsburgh. (Pittsburgh: Local History Company, 2006. x, 182 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-9770429-2-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Rosenfeld, Richard, ed., Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future of St. Louis. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 2006. xx, 188 pp. $22.95, isbn 1-883982-56-1.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Schiesl, Martin, and Mark M. Dodge, eds., City of Promise: Race and Historical Change in Los Angeles. (Claremont: Regina, 2006. vi, 228 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 1-930053-42-8.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Stofik, M. Barron, Saving South Beach. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xviii, 303 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-8130-2902-3.)
Josyph, Peter, Liberty Street: Encounters at Ground Zero. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2006. 289 pp. $26.00, isbn 1-58465-551-8.)
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