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Fall 2015 (Volume 47, Number 2)
The Urban History Newsletter
Urban History Association
Inside this issue:
President’s Letter 2 & 8
UHA Awards 3—7
UHA 8th Biennial CFP 9
Call for Conference
Proposals
10
Raymond Mohl Best
Grad Student Essay
Prize
11
Executive Director’s
Report
12
UAH Board of Directors
Nominees
13—14
Bibliographies 22—36
The UHA Announces
Award Winners
THE URBAN HISTORY NEWSLETTER
Co-Winners of the UHA Kenneth Jackson Award
for Best Book (North American), 2014 (pages 3 & 4) N.D.B. Connolly, A World More Concrete: Real Estate
and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
(University of Chicago Press, 2014).
Marta Gutman, A City for Children: Women,
Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of
Oakland, 1850-1950 (University of Chicago Press,
2014).
Co-Winners of the UHA Best Book Award (Non-
North American), 2013 and 2014 (pages 4 & 5) Alexander M. Martin, Enlightened Metropolis:
Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (Oxford
University Press, 2013).
Ato Quayson, Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the
Itineraries of Transnationalism (Duke University
Press, 2014).
UHA Arnold Hirsch Award for Best Article in a
Scholarly Journal, 2014 (page 6) A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, “Latino Landscapes: Postwar
Cities and the Transnational Origins of a New Urban
America,” Journal of American History 101 (3)
(December 2014): 804-831.
Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation in
Urban History, 2014 (page 6) Chloe Elizabeth Taft, From Steel to Slots: Landscapes
of Economic Change in Postindustrial Bethlehem, PA,
Ph.D. dissertation, American Studies, Yale University,
2014.
Editor,Editor,Editor,
UHA Newsletter, UHA Newsletter, UHA Newsletter,
Patrick R. PotyondyPatrick R. PotyondyPatrick R. Potyondy
The Urban History Association
(UHA) has had a busy 2015. Our
new leadership team of Executive
Director Timothy Neary, Member-
ship Secretary Cindy Lobel, and
UHA Newsletter editor Patrick Po-
tyondy has hit the ground running.
Patrick has maintained the ever-
high quality of the Newsletter, most
notably adding color formatting to
the publication. Cindy is building
on the work of her predecessor,
Brad Hunt of the Newberry Li-
brary, by expanding the UHA’s so-
cial media presence and streamlin-
ing the membership process. Tim
has organized a special committee
which is currently engaged in over-
hauling and updating the UHA
website. With the help and expert
advice of Lily Geismer of
Claremont McKenna College, for-
mer Membership Secretary and
SACRPH president-elect Brad
Hunt, Aïda Neary of Salve Regina
University, and Dale Winling of
Virginia Tech University, the UHA
will soon move to a new web plat-
form using an association manage-
ment system from Wild Apricot.
The committee evaluated a number
of proposals and has contracted
with Robin Parsons of Parsons
Marketing Concepts to implement,
organize and reorganize many of
the UHA’s web-based activities.
You will start to see a more dynam-
ic webpage with multiple features
in the next several months.
The UHA Board in June 2015 voted
to honor our late president Ray-
mond A. Mohl of the University of
Alabama at Birmingham by creat-
ing a prize for the best graduate
student paper presented at the bi-
ennial UHA conference. A special
fund to endow the prize has been
created. The UHA is greatly appre-
ciative of the efforts of Roger Biles
of Illinois State University, David
Goldfield of the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte and Mark
Rose of Florida Atlantic University
in organizing and jump-starting
the fundraising drive. Please read
Executive Director Tim Neary’s
message on how to contribute (see
page 12).
This is the second prize created or
renamed for a deceased former
UHA president during the past
year. In 2014, the UHA disserta-
tion prize was renamed in honor of
Michael Katz of the University of
Pennsylvania. Both Michael and
Ray were model mentors to many
of us throughout the profession and
the UHA. Their advice and kind-
ness to others, especially to young
historians, extended beyond their
students and colleagues at their
respective institutions. I urge you
to contribute a tax-deductable do-
nation to the endowed funds which
not only honor Ray and Michael,
but encourage, support and reward
future graduate students in urban
history. Again, please read Execu-
tive Director Tim Neary’s message
on how to contribute to one or both
funds.
Planning for the Eighth Biennial
UHA Conference is well under way.
The conference will take place in
the Corboy Law Center at Loyola
University Chicago, October 13-16,
2016, half a block from Chicago’s
famed Water Tower and Pumping
Station, two of few surviving struc-
tures from the Great Fire of 1871.
The conference location is also on
the edge of the River North neigh-
borhood, home to the largest gal-
lery district in the U.S. outside of
Manhattan and the greatest con-
centration of restaurants and bars
in Chicago. The Whitehall Hotel on
President’s Letter
PAGE 2 THE URBAN HISTORY NE WSLETTER FALL 2015 (VOLUME 47, NUMBER 2)
E. Delaware Street, two blocks
from the conference location and
half a block from Michigan Avenue,
will serve as the conference hotel.
The Program Committee, led by co-
chairs Nathan Connolly of New
York University and Donna Murch
of Rutgers University, has orga-
nized an impressive committee
composed of Leandro Benmergui of
Purchase College SUNY, Wendy
Cheng of Arizona State University,
Lily Geismer of Claremont McKen-
na College, Lilia Fernández of the
Ohio State University, David
Freund of the University of Mary-
land, Rachel Jean-Baptiste of the
University of California at Davis,
Jessica Levy of Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity, Sam Mitrani of the College
of DuPage, and Ana Elizabeth
Rosas of the University of Califor-
nia at Irvine. The call for papers
has been sent out with a deadline
of March 1, 2016. I want to repeat
my appreciation to each of them for
their willingness to organize and
contribute to what we anticipate
will be the best UHA conference
ever.
Conference planners also antici-
pate raising enough sponsorship
funding to encourage graduate stu-
dent participation by reimbursing
transportation costs to the confer-
ence. So grad students: save your
travel receipts! The association will
also organize workshops especially
for graduate students writing dis-
sertations in urban and suburban
history. Students who wish to par-
ticipate in a workshop should apply
with a two to four page letter of
interest by March 1, 2016 to UHA
Executive Director Timothy Neary
(Continued on page 8)
Co-Winner of the UHA Kenneth Jackson Award for
Best Book (North American), 2014
PAGE 3 THE URBAN HISTORY NE WSLETTER FALL 2015 (VOLUME 47, NUMBER 2)
N.D.B. Connolly, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking
of Jim Crow South Florida (University of Chicago Press, 2014).
urban history, but also documents
the myriad ways that the white-black
realtors’ alliance resulted in the su-
perexploitation of poor and working-
class black tenants. Within Miami’s
black community, African American
landlords strengthened white percep-
tions of black tenants as improvident,
lazy, and “in need of landlord benevo-
lence and philanthropy.” Along with
their white counterparts, black land-
lords allowed residential properties
to deteriorate, forced inhabitants to
make necessary repairs at their own
expense, and maintained rents at
excessively high levels.
As elsewhere, this study shows how
black Miamians and their liberal
white allies mounted grassroots
movements designed to eliminate the
color line in the housing market, but
Based upon a broad range of rich
archival collections, newspaper ac-
counts, and a plethora of compara-
tive secondary studies, this book
advances a series of compelling ar-
guments about the role of realtors
and rental property owners in the
development of the Greater Miami
system of “racial apartheid.” Specif-
ically, this book places the story of
black Miami within the larger con-
text of capitalist development, par-
ticularly the colonization of non-
European people, both locally and
globally, and challenges us to re-
think several closely interrelated
propositions in contemporary schol-
arship on 20th century U.S. and Afri-
can American urban history. First
and most significant, whereas most
studies of urban history identify
white landlords, realtors, banks, and
private property owners, particular-
ly “slumlords,” as the principal ac-
tors in the creation and perpetua-
tion of the racially divided and une-
qual housing market, Connolly un-
derscores the role of black and white
realtors in this process. In careful
detail, he shows how an interracial
alliance of landlords perceived them-
selves as a “class” and reinforced
each other’s interest through recip-
rocal loans and joint property in-
vestments that both breached and
reinforced the color line in the larger
political economy of the city.
Second, since the mid-20th century,
studies of the urban housing market
have repeatedly pinpointed the dis-
proportionately high rental rates
that urban blacks paid compared to
their white counterparts during the
industrial era. Connolly not only
elaborates upon this theme in black
Connolly demonstrates how black
and white realtors repeatedly
thwarted such movements through
their tremendous economic and po-
litical influence. During more than
three decades beginning during the
1940s, A World More Concrete illu-
minates how white and black land-
lords mobilized against and stymied
several large scale state-sponsored
urban renewal, housing, and land
developments projects that promised
to displace large numbers of poor
and working class city residents and
disrupt landlords’ access to the lu-
crative black poor rental market. As
such, this study also contests pre-
vailing emphasis on the centrality of
the black-left struggle for jobs, work-
er rights, unionization, and economic
democracy in the rise of the Modern
Black Freedom Movement from the
New Deal through the onset of
World War II and its early after-
math. Connolly underscores the in-
fluence of black business and proper-
tied people in setting the civil rights
agenda, negotiating settlements, and
harnessing “property ownership” as
opposed to jobs and freedom to the
larger quest for political and social
justice. Finally, and equally im-
portant, this book underscores the
emergence of a new historiograph-
ical moment in black urban history.
Rather than chronicling the myriad
ways that racist practices of the Jim
Crow era withered “under the heat
of civil rights activism and heroic
acts of self-sacrifice,” A World More
Concrete documents what Connolly
describes as “the more durable world
that held and hardened under the
very feet of protest marchers and
rioters as Jim Crow died and segre-
gation remained.”
Co-Winner of the UHA Kenneth Jackson Award for
Best Book (North American), 2014
PAGE 4 THE URBAN HISTORY NE WSLETTER FALL 2015 (VOLUME 47, NUMBER 2)
Marta Gutman, A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the
Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 (University of Chicago
Press, 2014).
shows, in convincing fashion,
how charitable institutions
played a central role in the
making of the modern city, one
which they often built on top of
the old. Operating with limited
resources, women turned sa-
loons into kindergartens, farm-
houses into orphanages, resi-
dential homes into day nurse-
ries. Gutman seamlessly weaves
together illustrative histories of
people and institutions with
careful reconstructions of the
physical spaces women and chil-
dren occupied and repurposed.
Gutman also shows how, even
as social reformers remade ur-
ban environments, they often
In a masterful, revelatory
study, Marta Gutman shows
how the struggle to create a
better environment for children
transformed urban space and
remapped landscapes of race,
class, and gender. Gutman’s
remarkable combination of his-
torical and architectural re-
search and analysis delivers
fresh new insights into the
shifting grounds of work, home,
and leisure space, and provides
an intimate window onto the
lived experience of working-
class women and children, in a
turn-of-the-twentieth-century
American city.
Set against the backdrop of a
modernizing, industrial West
Coast city, A City for Children
explores the work of a diverse
range of women who shared a
belief in the transformative
power of architecture and who
dedicated themselves to repur-
posing buildings and reinvent-
ing urban spaces in the inter-
ests of fostering a more whole-
some environment for urban
youth. As they constructed a
charitable landscape of orphan-
ages, kindergartens, play-
grounds, and settlement hous-
es, Gutman argues, women re-
formers also redrew the bound-
aries separating the public and
private spheres. Gutman
did so in a manner that reflect-
ed their racial prejudices. As a
result, Gutman shows, Oak-
land’s charitable landscape also
worked to institutionalize racist
practices and reinforce racial
inequalities.
More than a case study of a sin-
gle city, A City of Children ties
the story of Oakland’s charita-
ble landscape to local to region-
al, national, and international
trends and developments. She
offers penetrating insights into
the dynamic relationship be-
tween social movements and
the built environment, in gen-
eral. Drawing on a wide range
of sources and employing the
theoretical and methodological
tools of geography, architec-
ture, and urban planning, it
offers a model for interdiscipli-
nary research. In addition to
making a lasting contribution
to scholarship on Progressive-
era American cities, social re-
form, and charitable institu-
tions, Gutman’s study enriches
our understanding of children
as historical subjects, and
brings the fields of urban and
children’s history together in
ways few previous studies have
done. A remarkable achieve-
ment, A City for Children is, we
agree, richly deserving of this
award.
Co-Winner for UHA Best Book Award
(Non-North American), 2013 and 2014
PAGE 5 THE URBAN HISTORY NE WSLETTER FALL 2015 (VOLUME 47, NUMBER 2)
Alexander M. Martin, Enlightened Metropolis:
Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (Oxford
University Press, 2013).
Alexander Martin’s Enlightened Metropolis
addresses a significant gap in Russian, Euro-
pean, and urban historiography by providing a
history of a major city—Moscow—previously
unexplored in the existing English-language
scholarly literature for his period. Covering
roughly one hundred years, the book is an
enormously rich account based on extensive
historical research. After masterfully tracing
the development of Catherine II’s project to
transform the city into a well-designed Euro-
pean metropolis, Martin argues that devasta-
tion during the Napoleonic War and class con-
flict later in the nineteenth century highlight-
ed the failures of this Enlightenment project,
at the same time obscuring its long-term im-
pact. In tracing this history, Martin deftly em-
ploys a wide array of sources: statistical da-
tasets, parish and government records, dia-
ries, autobiographies, memoirs, fiction, paint-
ings, pamphlets, and travel writings. He like-
wise deploys varied means of analysis—
statistical and anecdotal social history, cultural and intellectual history, and institu-
tional and political history—and moves fluidly from one form of analysis to the next,
allowing one approach to enrich and inform the others. In doing so, he draws on a
large body of comparative material, not only in the form of secondary sources, but also
substantial primary materials in multiple languages, thereby contextualizing Mos-
cow’s history within the wider history of urban Europe, and providing an account illu-
minating the city’s history from a number of competing perspectives—including those
of the rich, poor, and middling, as well as those of foreigners. Martin’s is thus a well-
rounded history of Moscow as an idea, a built environment, and a lived community.
Co-Winner for UHA Best Book Award
(Non-North American), 2013 and 2014
PAGE 6 THE URBAN HISTORY NE WSLETTER FALL 2015 (VOLUME 47, NUMBER 2)
Ato Quayson, Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the
Itineraries of Transnationalism
(Duke University Press, 2014).
Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itiner-
aries of Transnationalism is an urban social
history of the capital of Ghana told from the
vantage point of Oxford Street, the city’s most
vibrant commercial district. Ato Quayson ar-
gues that the street reveals a microcosm of
larger historical processes that have trans-
formed Accra’s urbanscape. Quayson’s rich
analysis of a wide variety of written docu-
ments, photographs, urban planning material,
and ethnographic and oral data create a vivid
picture. He discusses the different historical
layers as they are represented in the contem-
porary palimpsest of the city, revealing the co-
evalness of the past in the present. Quayson
also shows how people have interacted with
their built environment and how space pro-
duces social relations. Starting with an over-
view of regional history beginning in the sev-
enteenth century with the arrival of the Ga
people from other parts of Africa and the sub-
sequent advent of Europeans and Afro-Brazilians, Quayson then examines the British
colonial administration during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and then
turns to the increasing international orientation of the city in the postcolonial period.
His account chronicles Accra’s transformation from a local agrarian settlement to an
Atlantic city during the time of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and ultimately into a
globalized multicultural metropolis. In seeing representations of the past in the pre-
sent as expressive archives of urban realities, the book demonstrates the importance
of orality and performance for both the storage and the transmission of knowledge in
oral cultures—in stark contrast to conventional academic historical approaches that
stress the dominance of the written archive.
Chloe Elizabeth Taft’s From Steel
to Slots: Landscapes of Economic
Change in Postindustrial Bethle-
hem, PA is an impressively re-
searched dissertation that exam-
ines industrial decline and
postindustrial reinvention within
a midsized city. Combining ethno-
graphic fieldwork and archival
research, Taft’s work deepens our
understanding of deindustrializa-
tion by recounting how residents
of the region adapted to the shut-
tering of the steel mills and at-
tempted to refashion identities and
livelihoods in the wake of massive
global economic transformations.
Taft’s work is particularly innova-
tive in that the story’s diverse ac-
tors all relied on the built environ-
ment as a touchstone with which to
make sense of profound economic
and social changes. Bethlehem’s
residents struggled to make sense
of the new major industry in town,
casino gambling, which failed to
offer residents and workers the
comforting sense of a social con-
tract and long-term financial and
residential stability of the steel
mills in their heyday. This is not a
stock narrative of a factory clos-
ing, but rather a close examina-
tion of how a city’s signature in-
dustry can continue to cast shad-
ows over the landscape. Taft also
offers a model for histories that
focus on smaller, regional cities
and demonstrates how histories of
this type can provide deepened
perspective on unfolding global
concerns.
Michael Katz Award for Best Dissertation in Urban
History, 2014
PAGE 7 THE URBAN HISTORY NE WSLETTER FALL 2015 (VOLUME 47, NUMBER 2)
Chloe Elizabeth Taft, From Steel to Slots: Landscapes of Economic
Change in Postindustrial Bethlehem, PA (Ph.D. dissertation, American
Studies, Yale University, 2014).
In the opening paragraphs of
“Latino Landscapes: Postwar
Cities and the Transnational
Origins of a New Urban Ameri-
ca,” A. K. Sandoval-Strausz as-
serts that it is time for the
“next urban history.” While the
field has been dominated since
the 1980s by the narratives of
urban crisis and suburban
flight, during that time the ma-
jority of the largest US cities
have rebounded, and mean-
while there has been
“unprecedented urbanization”
world-wide. We need a new sto-
ry that accounts for the growth
and revitalization of cities. In
this elegantly written essay,
Sandoval-Strausz points us in
that direction by examining
how “U.S. born, immigrant, and mi-
grant Latin Americans” reversed pop-
ulation decline and through their day-
to-day behaviors changed the nature
of one neighborhood in Dallas, Oak
Cliff. He documents the factors that
pushed immigrants out of Latin
American urban areas and into US
cities, but insists that sheer numbers
were not the most important element
of the latter’s revival. Rather, long-
standing practices brought from the
immigrants’ home communities, in-
cluding walking, owning and patron-
izing small shops, and the sociable
use of front yards, created a particu-
lar way of being in the city and thus
reformed it. Drawing on Jane Jacobs,
Sandoval-Strausz argues that Lati-
nos’ investment in homes and busi-
nesses, repopulating of the sidewalks,
and participation in local clubs
built a sense of community and
safety in Oak Cliff. At the same
time, their cross-border social,
economic, and political connec-
tions to their home communities
integrated US cities into a dynam-
ic hemispheric urban system. Em-
ploying and expanding on the sto-
ry of this one small place, Sando-
val-Strausz demonstrates a trans-
national approach to modern ur-
ban history that emphasizes the
historical experience and agency
of working people. The insights of
this essay will provoke valuable
new research in years to come,
potentially shaping the field of
urban history as fundamentally as
Kenneth Jackson and Arnold
Hirsch thirty years ago.
UHA Arnold Hirsch Award
for Best Article in a Scholarly Journal, 2014
A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, “Latino Landscapes: Postwar Cities and the
Transnational Origins of a New Urban America,” Journal of
American History 101.3 (December 2014): 804-831.
PAGE 8 THE URBAN HISTORY NE WSLETTER FALL 2015 (VOLUME 47, NUMBER 2)
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED VOLUNTEERS NEEDED VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
FOR FOR FOR
AWARD COMMITTEESAWARD COMMITTEESAWARD COMMITTEES
J ust as we are finishing the
awards process for works
completed in 2014, we need
to form committees for works
completed in 2015. We need
individuals to serve as mem-
bers of three award commit-
tees: Kenneth Jackson Best
Book Award (North Ameri-
can), Arnold Hirsch Best Ar-
ticle Award, and the Michael
Katz Award for Best Disser-
tation. Each committee will
include three members.
Individuals serving on the
committees must be members
of the Urban History Associa-
tion. Ideally we look for vol-
unteers from the associate
and full professor ranks, but
senior assistant professors
and independent scholars are
also welcome. We especially
welcome those who would be
willing to chair one of the
committees. The chair’s du-
ties include receiving all the
submissions, distributing
them to the other committee
members, and organizing the
committee’s deliberations.
The works for these awards
must be submitted by April
15, 2016. The committees
should complete their work
no later than September 1,
2016. Those who have served
on committees in the past are
welcome to volunteer once
again, but preference will be
given to those who have not
yet had the opportunity.
If you are interested in serv-
ing on any of the committees
or have any questions, please
contact Tim Neary, Executive
Director, UHA,
Please indicate which com-
mittee interests you, if you
are willing to serve on any of
the committees, and if you
are willing to serve as chair.
Thank you in advance for
your willingness to take on
this important service work
for the UHA.
(Continued from page 1)
The internationalization of the
UHA continues with the current
slate of nominees for the board of
directors which include urbanists
specializing in Asia, Europe and
Latin America. Please read the bi-
ographies of the nominees in this
issue of the Newsletter and be sure
to cast your ballot later this fall
(pages 13 & 14). The members of
the Nominations Committee de-
serve a special round of thanks for
the hard work and time they in-
vested in this process: Chair Jon
Teaford of Purdue University, An-
ton Rosenthal of the University of
Kansas, and Heather Ann Thomp-
son of the University of Michigan.
Last but not least, I want to con-
gratulate the recipients of the vari-
ous UHA book, article and disserta-
tion prizes: Nathan Connolly, Mar-
ta Gutman, Alexander M. Martin,
Ato Quayson, Andrew Sandoval-
Strausz, and Chloe Taft. Each prize
committee noted the high-quality
submissions this year. The final
selections were difficult, but that
speaks to the originality and dyna-
mism of current urban history
scholarship. Their award citations
follow in pages 3 through 7. Final-
ly, I want to individually
acknowledge the UHA members
who volunteered their time and
energy to serve on the prize com-
mittees: Patricia Acerbi of Russell
Sage College, Lisa Boehm of Man-
hattanville College, Andrew Dia-
mond of Université Paris-Sorbonne,
Christopher Ferguson of Auburn
University, Jennifer Fronc of the
University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, Tracy K’Meyer of the
University of Louisville, Andrew
Kahrl of the University of Virgin-
ia, Lisa Keller of Purchase Col-
lege SUNY, Jeff Sanders of Wash-
ington State University, Kristin
Stapleton of the University of
Buffalo SUNY, Joe Trotter of Car-
negie Mellon University, and
Constanze Weise of the Connecti-
cut College. The UHA would exist
in name only were it not for the
selfless devotion of these and oth-
er members who generously do-
nate their services and expertise
to the organization. The UHA
board and leadership team are
gratefully appreciative.
- Timothy J. Gilfoyle
UHA President
Loyola University Chicago
PAGE 9 THE URBAN HISTORY NE WSLETTER FALL 2015 (VOLUME 47, NUMBER 2)
“The Working Urban”“The Working Urban”“The Working Urban” The Eighth Biennial Conference of the
Urban History Association
Chicago, Illinois — October 13 - 16, 2016
The Urban History Associa-
tion Program Committee
seeks submissions for ses-
sions on all aspects of urban,
suburban, and metropolitan
history. We welcome pro-
posals for panels, roundtable
discussions, and individual
papers. We are also receptive
to alternative session formats
that foster audience partici-
pation in the proceedings.
The Program Committee is
pleased to announce that
Loyola University Chicago
will serve as the local host for
the October 2016 conference.
The conference theme – The
Working Urban – highlights
the importance of labor and
of historians’ working defini-
tions of “urban history.” We
therefore encourage submis-
sions that explore the scales
at which historians work (i.e.
local, national, regional) as
well as those that interrogate
the racial and gendered as-
pects of work in relation to
the built environment.
“Working” also refers to
workshops. For the first time
ever, the UHA conference
will include professional
workshops built specifically
around interpreting primary
sources and exploring prob-
lems of evidence in the field.
Innovative workshop ideas
are especially encouraged.
Successful panel and paper
proposals need not adhere
strictly to the conference
theme. For instance, being fifty
years removed from the 1960s
and a century from the Pro-
gressive Era, the program com-
mittee will also pay special at-
tention to panels marking the
anniversaries of events that
profoundly impacted cities, in-
cluding the opening of Marga-
ret Sanger’s first birth control
clinic in 1916, the Watts upris-
ing in Los Angeles, the Clean
Water Restoration Act of 1966,
the Model Cities Program,
Martin Luther King’s Chicago
campaign, the Supreme Court’s
Miranda decision, the founding
of the Black Panther Party,
and more.
In recognition of urban histo-
ry’s considerable breadth, we
also seek contributions that
make global comparisons and
explore metropolitan politics in
Latin America, Europe, Asia,
Australia, the Middle East, and
Africa. Sessions on ancient and
pre-modern as well as modern
periods are welcome.
We prefer complete panels but
individual papers will be con-
sidered. Please designate a sin-
gle person to serve as a contact
for all complete panels. For
traditional panels, include a
brief explanation of the overall
theme, a one-page abstract of
each paper, and a one- or two-
page c.v. for each participant.
Roundtable proposals should
also designate a contact per-
son and submit a one-page
theme synopsis and a one- or
two-page c.v. for each present-
er. Proposals involving alter-
native formats should include
a brief description of how the
session will be structured. All
those submitting individual
papers should include a one-
page abstract and a one- or
two-page c.v. E-mail submis-
sions by March 1, 2016 to N.
D. B. Connolly and Donna
Jean Murch at
[email protected]. Sub-
missions should be included in
attachments as Word or PDF
documents.
Graduate student submissions
are especially encouraged. The
UHA can assist select gradu-
ate students by reimbursing
transportation costs to the
conference. The association
will also organize workshops
especially for graduate stu-
dents writing dissertations in
urban and suburban history.
Students who wish to partici-
pate in a workshop should ap-
ply with a two to four page
letter of interest by March 1,
2016 to UHA Executive Direc-
tor Timothy Neary at
CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Board of Directors of the Urban History Association (UHA) is
soliciting separate Requests for Proposals from interested institutions
and parties to stage the Ninth Biennial UHA Conference in 2018
and the Tenth Biennial UHA Conference in 2020.
Information on past conferences is available at http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html
Ideal proposals should include the following information:
1. Name of the primary sponsoring institution or institutions
with relevant contact addresses, email, and telephone
numbers;
2. Names of potential secondary sponsors to assist funding the
conference;
3. Possible location of rooms for concurrent panels
(approximately 100 total) on Friday and Saturday (4 different
time slots between 8:30 am and 4pm), and Sunday morning;
4. Possible location for a book exhibit to accommodate 10-15
publishers;
5. Possible open space for informal gathering and networking;
6. Potential conference hotels with price ranges;
7. Potential space for receptions and a gala dinner to
accommodate 150-200 people;
8. Any innovative ideas for the conference program.
Please submit proposals via email to Timothy Neary, Executive
Director, Urban History Association, [email protected]
Request for Proposals
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In June 2015, the Board of Directors of the Urban History Association (UHA) approved the
creation of the Raymond A. Mohl Prize for best paper delivered by a graduate student during
a biennial conference of the UHA. The original proposal was authored by Roger Biles, David
Goldfield, and Mark Rose.
The award honors the life and work of Raymond A. Mohl, who died on January 29, 2015, at
the age of 75. Mohl was among the nation’s most productive and influential urban historians,
a founding editor of the Journal of Urban History, and one of the Urban History Association’s
first presidents. Altogether, Mohl published thirteen books, more than ninety journal
articles, and a host of book chapters, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries. His
bibliographical essays were masterpieces of insight and completeness, demonstrating his
mastery of several historiographies. (Please see “Editor’s Tribute to Raymond A. Mohl” and
“Tribute to Raymond A. Mohl, 1938-2015,” Journal of Urban History 41 [May 2015]). In
addition to his excellent scholarship and teaching, the mentorship of graduate students was
of particular importance to Mohl.
The first Raymond A. Mohl Prize will be awarded at the 8th Biennial Conference of the UHA
in Chicago, October 13-16, 2016. Eligibility and submission requirements for the Mohl Prize
will be forthcoming in the spring of 2016.
Recently a fund has been established to endow the Mohl
Prize. A number of Ray’s friends and colleagues have already
contributed. Please consider making a tax deductible donation
to the Mohl Fund.
Checks payable to “Urban History Association”
with “Mohl Fund” in the subject line may be sent to:
Timothy B. Neary
Executive Director
Urban History Association
Salve Regina University
100 Ochre Point Ave.
Newport, RI, 02840-4192
Thank you for your support.
Announcing the
Raymond A. Mohl Prize for
Best Graduate Student Paper
Report of the Executive Director
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“Transition” is a word that aptly
characterizes the work of the Ur-
ban History Association (UHA) dur-
ing the past ten months. On Janu-
ary 1, 2015, Cindy Lobel became
the new Membership Secretary,
Timothy Gilfoyle began his two-
year term as President, and I be-
came the new Executive Director.
The UHA also began using Wild
Apricot, a web-based software pro-
gram for small associations and
non-profits. Wild Apricot will allow
us to better manage our member-
ship services, the UHA website,
and conference registration. The
UHA website committee is working
with Parsons Marketing Concepts
to redesign the association’s web-
site and implement Wild Apricot.
Members will begin to notice
changes in late 2015 and early
2016. Stay tuned for updates in the
coming weeks about a new URL
address for the UHA website and
changes to membership renewal.
I am pleased to report that the
UHA is financially sound and mem-
bership is stable. Membership Sec-
retary Cindy Lobel reports that
there are 537 members of the asso-
ciation as of October 9, 2015.
In April 2015, Michelle Nickerson
of Loyola University Chicago gave
the keynote address at the UHA
luncheon during the Annual Meet-
ing of the Organization of American
Historians (OAH) in St. Louis. Ap-
proximately 30 attendees enjoyed a
meal, conversation, and Nicker-
son’s presentation “Burn Draft
Cards Not Cities: Catholic Leftist
Politics of the Vietnam Era.” Each
spring the UHA hosts a luncheon
at the OAH conference. John Fara-
gher, Howard R. Lamar Professor
of History & American Studies and
Director of the Howard R. Lamar
Center, Yale University, will give
the keynote at the next UHA lunch-
eon during the upcoming OAH in
Providence, Rhode Island (April 9,
2016). Professor Faragher is the
author of numerous books, includ-
ing Women and Men on the Over-
land Trail (1979); Sugar Creek: Life
on the Illinois Prairie (1986); Dan-
iel Boone: The Life and Legend of
an American Pioneer (1992); A
Great and Noble Scheme: The Trag-
ic Story of the Expulsion of the
French Acadians from their Ameri-
can Homeland (2005); and Fron-
tiers: A Short History of the Ameri-
can West (2007). Faragher will
speak on his forthcoming book Eter-
nity Street: Violence and Justice in
Frontier Los Angeles (W.W. Norton,
2016). I hope to see you there.
As Timothy Gilfoyle mentioned in
the President’s Letter (see page 2
and 8), the UHA created two new
endowed funds during the past
year: the Michael B. Katz Best Dis-
sertation and Raymond A. Mohl
Best Graduate Paper funds (see
page 11). If you would like to make
a tax-deductible contribution to
either of these funds, please make
your check payable to “Urban His-
tory Association” (with “Katz Fund”
or “Mohl Fund” in the memo sec-
tion), and send your donation to:
Timothy B. Neary
UHA Executive Director
Salve Regina University
100 Ochre Point Ave.
Newport, RI 02840-4192
The Eighth Biennial Conference of
the UHA—“The Working Urban”—
will take place at the Corboy Law
Center, Loyola University Chicago,
October 13-16, 2016. Proposals for
papers, sessions, and workshops
are due by March 1, 2016 (please
see the Call for Papers on page 9).
The Program Committee, co-
chaired by Nathan Connolly and
Donna Murch, and the Local Ar-
rangements Committee are work-
ing hard to put together an excel-
lent conference. Please consider
submitting a proposal.
Online elections for the UHA Board
of Directors will take place later
this fall. See pages 13 and 14 for
brief biographies of the seven nomi-
nees for three-year terms on the
Board of Directors beginning Janu-
ary 1, 2016. I would like to thank
this year’s Nominations Commit-
tee—Jon Teaford (chair), Anton
Rosenthal, and Heather Ann
Thompson—for their hard work.
I also would like to thank Katie
Schank for accepting the position of
U.S. books bibliographer for the
Urban History Newsletter. Schank,
a Ph.D. candidate in American
studies at George Washington Uni-
versity, is finishing a dissertation
on visual representations of slums
and public housing in Atlanta dur-
ing the twentieth century. Welcome
aboard, Katie!
Finally, I would like to thank the
hard-working volunteers who
served on the prize committees this
year (for the list of names, see the
President’s letter, page 8). The
UHA could not recognize the best
recent scholarship in the field of
urban history without the work of
these committees. We are now look-
ing for volunteers to serve on the
following prize committees in 2016
(three members on each commit-
tee): Kenneth Jackson Award for
Best Book (North America); Arnold
Hirsch Award for Best Article; and
the Michael Katz Award for Best
Dissertation. Please consider serv-
ing on one of these committees. If
interested, contact me at
- Timothy B. Neary
UHA Executive Director
Salve Regina University
Anna Alexander
Anna Alexander is Assistant Professor of Latin American history at Georgia Southern University. She received her
Ph.D. in History (2012) and M.A. in Latin American Studies (2008) from the University of Arizona. Her research and
teaching interests include urban environmental history, as well as the history of science, technology, and medicine.
Her first book-length monograph entitled, City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in
Mexico City, 1860-1910 (forthcoming Spring 2016, University of Pittsburgh Press) examines the social experience of
fire during the second half of the nineteenth century in Mexico City. She has published articles in Urban History and
Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and is currently working on a second book about a 1984 petroleum fire in Mex-
ico City that killed 500-600 people. Alexander has been a member of UHA since 2012 and would like to become more
active in the association. Her primary goal in serving as a board member is to continue to broaden the scope of schol-
arly discussions at UHA conferences by recruiting new members who study the Global South, or who research com-
parative or transnational topics.
Alison J. Bruey
Alison J. Bruey is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Florida. Her research focus is modern
Latin American urban history, with an emphasis on popular-sector political culture, economies, and environments.
She has published on repression and the criminalization of poverty in Santiago, Chile’s working-class neighborhoods;
neoliberal public-housing policy and the squatters’ movement in Pinochet’s Chile; and on the concept and practice of
solidarity in low-income Santiago neighborhoods. Her current book project, Bread, Justice, and Liberty: Neoliberal-
ism, Human Rights, and Grassroots Organizing in Pinochet’s Chile, examines the development of anti-regime politi-
cal cultures in urban working-class neighborhoods that became epicenters of mass protest against the dictatorship.
Her past participation in the UHA includes serving as discussant on the panel “Visual Culture Part I: Politics and
Place in the Latin American City” in 2014. Her goals as a member of the board would include facilitating the further
internationalization of the organization and conference to include regions beyond the U.S. and Europe, and continu-
ing to support the intellectual engagement and exchange that the UHA promotes.
Shane Ewen
I have over a decade’s experience of comparative urban history research and teaching at the Universities of Leices-
ter, Edinburgh and in my current role as Senior Lecturer in History at Leeds Beckett University. As an active mem-
ber of the committees of both the Urban History Group and the European Association of Urban History, and co-
editor of Urban History, I look forward to participating in your future conferences and strengthening existing trans-
Atlantic relations. My research broadly focuses on urban governance, with a particular interest in the management
of urban disasters and emergency services, as well as transnational history. My first monograph, Fighting Fires: Cre-
ating the British Fire Service, 1800-1978 (2010), made a significant contribution to the historiography on urban fires
and municipal fire services in the UK. I co-edited, with Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval), Another Global City:
Historical Explorations of the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1800-2000 (2008), which helped to define the field of
transnational urban history and has been well cited in subsequent studies. I have recently written a 2015 synthesis
of urban history in its comparative/global context, aimed at both general and subject-specific readers, called What is
Urban History?.
Brian Goldstein Brian Goldstein is a historian of 20th century urbanism in the United States. His research and teaching explore the
intersection of social movements, politics, and the built environment, with special attention to the spatial implica-
tions of race and class. He is currently assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Univer-
Nominees for the Urban History Association
Board of Directors for the term
January 1, 2016 – Dec. 31, 2018 Nominees are listed on the following two pages in alphabetical order.
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sity of New Mexico, and previously held an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of History and
Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his PhD from Harvard University in
2013. Brian’s writing has appeared or will appear in the Journal of American History, Journal of Urban History, and
the edited collections Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City and
Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream. His book, The Roots of Urban Renaissance:
Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. It explores the role that
community members played in bringing about the transformation that made Harlem a national symbol of both ur-
ban revitalization and its costs in the late 20th century. He has taken part in the biennial conferences of UHA since
2010, as a session organizer, panelist, and roundtable participant.
Carola Hein
Carola Hein is Professor and Head, Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Tech-
nology (The Netherlands). She has published widely on topics in contemporary and historical architectural and ur-
ban planning – notably in Europe and Japan. Among other major grants, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to
pursue research on The Global Architecture of Oil and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to investigate large-
scale urban transformation in Hamburg in international context between 1842 and 2008. Her current research inter-
ests include transmission of architectural and urban ideas along international networks, focusing specifically on port
cities and the global architecture of oil. She has served on the board of the Urban History Association from 2010 to
2012, and has organized or participated in several sessions at UHA meetings. She is Asia book review editor for the
Journal of Urban History and serves as Editor for the Americas for the journal Planning Perspectives. Her books in-
clude: The Capital of Europe (2004); Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (2011); Brussels: Perspec-
tives on a European Capital (2007); European Brussels: Whose capital? Whose city? (2006); Rebuilding Urban Japan
after 1945 (2003); and Cities, Autonomy and Decentralisation in Japan (2006).
Kristin Stapleton
Kristin Stapleton is a historian of China who has written extensively on the history of China’s cities over the past
two centuries, recently contributing a chapter on that topic to the Oxford Handbook on Cities in World History, edit-
ed by Peter Clark (Oxford 2013). She has written two books on the history of the capital of Sichuan province, Cheng-
du, including one (Stanford, forthcoming) that compares its history in the 1920s to the way it is depicted in Ba
Jin’s famous 1930s novel Family. Her new work concerns the transformation of Chinese cities under Soviet influence
in the 1950s. A member of the history faculty at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, Stapleton serves on the board of
advisers of the Urban China Research Network, representing the discipline of history in a group composed primarily
of geographers, sociologists, and urban planners. She is a lifetime member of the UHA, and served on UHA
Board from 2000 to 2003 and on the program committee for the first biennial meeting in 2002. In 2015 she chaired
the UHA’s non-North-American book prize committee.
Lawrence J. Vale
Lawrence Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT, where he served as Head of the Department
of Urban Studies and Planning from 2002-2009. He was president of the Society for American City and Regional
Planning History from 2011-2013 and has been a regular UHA participant since 2006. Vale holds degrees from Am-
herst, M.I.T., and the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Vale is the author or editor of
ten books examining urban design, housing, and planning, including Purging the Poorest (2015 Best Book in Urban
Affairs, UAA; 2014 Best Book on United States Planning History, IPHS); Architecture, Power, and National Identity
(1994 Spiro Kostof Book Award, SAH); From the Puritans to the Projects (2001 Best Book in Urban Affairs, UAA);
Reclaiming Public Housing (2005 Paul Davidoff Book Award, ACSP); and Planning Ideas That Matter (2014 Best
Edited Book, IPHS). Other work includes co-edited books about disaster recovery (The Resilient City: How Modern
Cities Recover from Disaster), housing (Public Housing Myths) and urban design (Imaging the City). At MIT, Vale
has won the Institute’s highest award for teaching (MacVicar Faculty Fellowship), as well as departmental awards
for advising and service to students.
Nominees for the Board of Directors continued
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Present Of f icers and Directors
President: Timothy Gilfoyle / Loyola University Chicago
President-Elect: Richard Harris / McMaster University
Executive Director: Timothy Neary / Salve Regina University
Editor of the Journal of Urban History: David Goldfield / University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Membership Secretary: Cindy R. Lobel / Lehman College, CUNY
Directors:
Through December 31, 2015: Peter Baldwin / University of Connecticut; Andrew Diamond / Universi-
ty of Paris-Sorbonne; Margaret Garb / Washington University in St. Louis; Brian Purnell / Bowdoin
College; Jeffrey Sanders / Washington State University; Monica Perales / University of Houston;
LaDale Winling / Virginia Tech
Through December 31, 2016: Mauricio Castro / Purdue University; Themis Chronopoulos / University
of East Anglia; Lily Geismer / Claremont McKenna College; Paul Gleye / North Dakota State Univer-
sity; Andrew Highsmith / University of California-Irvine; Michelle Nickerson / Loyola University
Chicago; Anton Rosenthal / University of Kansas
Through December 31, 2017: Davarian Baldwin / Trinity College; Martha Biondi / Northwestern Uni-
versity; Nathan Connolly / New York University; Rebecca Madigan / University of Glasgow; Cathe-
rine McNeur / Portland State University; Todd Michney / University of Toledo; Donna Murch / Rut-
gers University
A full list including past officers and directors can be found at:
http://uha.udayton.edu/officers.html
The 2016 URBAN HISTORY
ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
will be held at
Corboy Law Center,
Loyola University Chicago,
October 13-16, 2016
Upcoming
UHA Board
Meetings
Friday, November 6,
2015
4:30-6:15 PM
During the Society of
American City and
Regional Planning
History (SACRPH)
Conference
Millennium Biltmore
Hotel
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, January 9,
2016
9:00-11:00 AM
During the American
Historical Association
(AHA) Conference
Hilton Atlanta
(Executive Boardroom;
First Floor)
Atlanta, GA
Saturday, April 9, 2016
7:30-9:00 AM
During the
Organization of
American Historians
(OAH) Conference
Providence, RI
Editorial Transition at
Chicago’s HSUA Series Jim Grossman, executive director of the American His-
torical Association, has served as editor of the University
of Chicago Press’s Historical Studies of Urban America
(HSUA) series since he and Kathleen Conzen cofound-
ed it in 1991. Series titles are concerned with cities as
places that influence spatial relations, politics, economic
development, social processes, and cultural transfor-
mations—and are in turn shaped by these forces.
In his more than two decades with the series, Grossman
has helped to attract and acquire some of the finest man-
uscripts and award-winning thinkers in the fields of his-
tory and urban studies. Under Grossman’s leadership,
the series will publish its fiftieth title this year, which
together with the eighteen manuscripts currently under
contract make this one of the largest series in the field.
During Grossman’s tenure, HSUA books have sold more
than 100,000 copies and won more than twenty-five
awards or finalist recognitions, including the AHA Wes-
ley-Logan Prize and OAH Frederick Jackson Turner
Award.
Grossman will take the title of series editor emeritus. In
his place, Lilia Fernández, Ohio State University, and
Amanda I. Seligman, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee, will join continuing editors Timothy J. Gil-
foyle, Loyola University Chicago, and Becky Nico-
laides, UCLA.
Please contact Ashley Pierce at (773) 702-0279 or
[email protected] for more information.
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Urban History Seminar: 2015 -2016 at the Chicago History Museum 1601 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614 312-799-2012 - [email protected]
Reception @ 5:45 pm, dinner @ 6:15 pm, and program @ 7:00 pm
Reservations are $25: purchase by phone 312-642-4600 or online at
http://www.chicagohistory.org/planavisit/upcomingevents/lectures-and-seminars/
Michael H. Ebner Ann Durkin Keating Russell Lewis D. Bradford Hunt
Lake Forest College North Central College Chicago History Museum Newberry Library
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2016-2017
We encourage expressions of interest—from historians early in their careers as well as more
senior scholars—who might wish to make a presentation during 2016-2017. We prefer that
our speakers discuss their work-in-progress rather than a book or article already in print.
Please contact: [email protected]
September 17 2015
LaDale Winling Virginia Tech The Working Class vs. The Crea-
tive Class: The Spatial Politics of
University Growth in Cambridge,
MA
October 15 2015
Michael McCulloch University of
Michigan
The Modern Worker’s House and
the Production of Fordist Culture
in 1920s Detroit
November 19, 2015
Harold Platt Loyola University
Chicago
Sinking Chicago: The Politics of a
Flood-prone Environment in the
Age of Climate Change
January 14, 2016 John Boyer University of
Chicago
Building for a Long Future: The
University of Chicago at 125
February 18 2016 Michael Shymanski Historic Pullman
Foundation
The People That Cared Enough to
Make Pullman a National Monu-
ment
March 10, 2016 Dominic Pacyga Columbia College
Chicago
Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union
Stockyard and the World That It
Made
April 14, 2016 Nancy Kwak University of Cali-
fornia San Diego
Development Aid and Home Own-
ership in the Global South
May 12, 2016 Richard Harris McMaster Universi-
ty (Canada)
Why Neighborhoods Matter More
Now
Alexander von Hoffman, Senior Fellow of
the Joint Center for Housing Studies at
Harvard University, participated in a panel
discussion with Julián Castro, U.S. Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development; Karen
Freeman-Wilson, Mayor, Gary, Indiana; and
Ralph Becker, Mayor, Salt Lake City, Utah,
and also President of the National League of
Cities, which was moderated by Sarah Rosen
Wartell, President, Urban Institute.
Held on June 15, 2015, at the Urban Institute,
Washington, D.C., it was titled “Opportunity
in Urban America: Secretary Castro, City
Leaders, and Urban Experts in
Conversation on the Next 50 Years for
HUD.”
The entire event can be seen at http://
www.urban.org/events/opportunity-urban-
america
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The Department of History at the University
of Cincinnati, led by alumni Robert Fairbanks,
Patricia Mooney-Melvin, and Judith Spraul-
Schmidt, is raising an endowment to
establish a Zane L. Miller Professorship
in American Urban History.
Miller served as the third president of the
Urban History Association, founded in
Cincinnati, and before his retirement in 1999
compiled an enviable record of scholarship,
graduate student mentoring, and civic
activism. He currently co-edits Temple
University Press’ Urban Life, Landscape and
Policy Series. The establishment of a Miller
Chair would assure the continuation of his
legacy of leadership for the Association and
the field of urban history in general.
Persons who wish to contribute to this effort
should contact Chris Eden at 513-556-0912 or
The Commonwealth Book Company will
release this fall or early next year a revised
edition of Zane L. Miller’s Suburb:
Neighborhood and Community in Forest
Park, Ohio, 1935-1976 (org. published 1981),
which contains several new features.
These include a foreword by Timothy
Lombardo (calling the book a “classic” study);
an afterword by Jon C. Teaford; and a
postscript by Charles “Fritz” Casey-
Leininger that bring the story up to the
present, and which documents the emergence
since 1970 in Hamilton County and Cincinnati
of twenty-nine stable, racially integrated
communities and neighborhoods, and which he
sees as a likely but not yet verified national
trend. The price of the book, and perhaps a 15
percent discount for JUH members, will be
announced later by James Lynch at
Carl E. Kramer, vice president of Kramer
Associates Inc., a Jeffersonville, Indiana,
public history consulting firm, and retired
director of the Institute for Local and Oral
History at Indiana University Southeast, is
the author of Building on a Century of
Commitment: A History of Whayne
Supply Company. 1913-2013, published in
2013, and Rivers of Time: A History of
American Commercial Lines, 1915-2015,
published in August 2015. Whayne Supply
Company is a Louisville-based distributor for
Caterpillar, Inc. and other construction,
mining, and agricultural equipment producers.
American Commercial Lines, headquartered in
Jeffersonville, is one of the nation’s largest
inland river barging and maritime
manufacturers. Dr. Kramer’s current project is
the history of Rieth-Riley Construction Co.,
Inc., one of the nation’s top 50 road
construction firms, based in Goshen, Indiana.
Landscapes of Injustice, a $5.5 million seven-year project to research and
tell the history of the dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the Second
World War has completed its first full year of activity. Supported by the
UHA and headed by past UHA Director, Jordan Stanger-Ross
(University of Victoria), Landscapes is focused in part on urban questions,
with the large Japanese-Canadian neighborhood of prewar Vancouver (the
Powell Street neighborhood) one of four case study sites. This summer,
students working in the Land Title Cluster completed title searches for 24
square blocks in East End Vancouver, where Japanese Canadians comprised
more than 40 percent of the residential population before their uprooting in
1942. The forced sale of their
property in the seven years
that followed meant that the
neighborhood never recovered
after the war. Individual
Japanese Canadians lost
homes, businesses, and
belongings acquired through
the hard work of multiple
generations. Our research,
chronicling almost 4,000
transactions will allow
researchers to trace the
material and spatial history of
the dispossession in
unprecedented fashion.
Thanks to the UHA for its
support of this project. We
hope to have the opportunity
see some of you and to present
some results in Chicago. Learn
more about our work at
www.landscapesofinjustice.com
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The Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the
Humanities is pleased to announce its lineup for the Fall 2015 Mellon
Forum for Research on the Urban Environment
Sessions will focus on the theme of “City as Home.”
More information can be found at http://arc-hum.princeton.edu/forum
Wednesday, Sept. 23 / Opening Plenary
Joao Biehl (Anthropology, Princeton), Mario Gandelsonas (Architecture, Princeton), Gyan
Prakash (History, Princeton), and Judith Weisenfeld (Religion, Princeton)
Wednesday, Sept. 30 / The Color of Modernity
Barbara Weinstein (NYU)
Wednesday, October 7 / J.B. Jackson’s Vision of the City as Part of the Landscape
Helen Horowitz (Smith College)
Thursday, Oct. 15 / Real Estate, Race, and Architecture
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz (Princeton-Mellon Initiative) and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (African
American Studies, Princeton)
Wednesday, Oct. 28 / Latin America, Space, and the Cold War
Pedro Alonso (Princeton-Mellon Initiative) and Graham Burnett (History of Science, Princeton)
Thursday, Nov 12 / Literature Between the Home and the City
Lilia Schwarcz (University of São Paulo)
Wednesday, Nov. 18 / Over the Ruins of Amazonia
Paulo Tavares (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador)
Thursday, Dec 3 / Inscribing Home in the City in Mexico and Colombia
Sebastian Ramirez (Anthropology, Princeton) and Pablo Landa (Anthropology, Princeton)
Friday, Dec. 11 / The Future of Public Housing
School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium / 1:30pm
Leandro Benmergui (SUNY Purchase), Joseph Heathcott (Princeton-Mellon Initiative), and Li Li
(Xiamen University)
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SPECIAL THANKS TO TIM NEARY AND TIM
GILFOYLE FOR HELPING PRODUCE THIS
SEASON’S NEWSLETTER!
Amanda Seligman was promoted to
Professor of History at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has recently
become Chair of UWM’s History Department
and a Series Editor for the University of
Chicago Press’ Historical Studies of Urban
America (see page 14). Her latest publication
is a book chapter about implementation of
Family and Medical Leave at UWM.
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The Wisconsin Historical Society announces
the publication of the heretofore suppressed
manuscript guide to Milwaukee in the
Federal Writers Project guidebook series. It
contains an introductory chapter by John D.
Buenker, Professor Emeritus of History
University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Alejandro Velasco announces the
publication of Barrio Rising: Urban Popular
Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
(University of California Press, 2015).
The Cincinnati Book Publishing brought out
in August of this year Michael Ford’s book
The American Dream: Else What’s Heaven
For, which carries jacket blurbs from Mark
Shields, Paul Trippi, and Senator Wal-
ter Mondale. Zane Miller played a major
role in editing the manuscript and contrib-
uted a brief afterword essay about the city,
the Dream, and American civic nationalism,
with special reference to the problems of civ-
ic and adult illiteracy.
Ocean Howell announces the publication
of Making the Mission: Planning and Eth-
nicity in San Francisco (University of Chica-
go Press, 2015).
Steven H. Corey has been appointment
Interim Dean of the School of Liberal Arts
and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago.
He is the co-author, along with Lisa
Krissoff Boehm, of the new volume Ameri-
ca’s Urban History (Routledge, 2015).
Nicholas Dagen Bloom has published The
Metropolitan Airport: JFK International and
Modern New York (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2015), of the American
Business, Politics, and Public Policy Series.
Bloom is also Co-Author/Editor along with
Mathew Gordon Lasner of the book
Affordable Housing in New York City: The
People, Places, and Policies that
Transformed a City (Princeton University
Press, 2015).
Jeffry Diefendorf, Professor of History at the
University of New Hampshire, has published
the chapter “Historic Urban Catastrophes:
Learning for the Future from Wartime
Destruction” in the volume entitled Katrina
Effect, edited by William Taylor (Bloomsbury:
London, 2015).
Tamar Carroll, Assistant Professor in the
History Department at Rochester Institute
of Technology, shares the news of the recent
publication of her book Mobilizing New York:
AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism
(University of North Carolina Press, April
2015).
“Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy.” Museum of the City of New York, Sept. 18, 2015 - Feb. 16, 2016. “The Architectural Image, 1920-1950,” National Building Mu-seum, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2014 - May 3, 2015. “Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933.” Neue Galerie, New York, Oct. 1, 2015 - Jan. 4, 2016. “Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pur-suit of Freedom.” Brooklyn His-torical Society, N.Y., Jan. 15, 2014 - winter 2018. “Brooklyn Sewers: What’s Up Down There?” Brooklyn Histor-ical Society, N.Y., June 9, 2015 - May 29, 2016. “Carlo Javier Ortiz: We All We Got.” Bronx Documentary Cen-ter, Bronx, N.Y., Jan. 24 - Mar. 22, 2015. “Chicago’s Families: Finding Home.” Swedish American Mu-seum, Chicago. June 7 - Sept. 15, 2015. “Chinese Style: Rediscovering the Architecture of Poy Gum Lee, 1923-1968.” Museum of
Chinese in America, New York, Sept. 24, 2015 - Jan. 31, 2016. “City Abandoned: Selected Pho-tographs by Vincent Feldman.” Philadelphia Athenaeum, Sept. 11 - Oct. 31, 2015. “The City Lost and Found: Cap-turing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980.” The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 26, 2014 - Jan. 11, 2015; Princeton University Art Museum, Feb. 21 - June 7, 2015. “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2009. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. January 31 - May 31, 2015; San Diego Muse-um of Art, July 11 - OCt. 13, 2015; Brooklyn Museum, Nov. 20, 2015 - Mar. 13, 2016; McNay Art Museum, San Anto-nio, May 11 - Sept. 11, 2016. “Facing East: Chinese Urbanism in Africa.” Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, June 16 - Aug. 1, 2015. “Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival.” Museum of the City of New York, Jun 17 - Nov. 29, 2015. “Gaining Access: The New York City Disability Rights Move-ment.” Brooklyn Historical Soci-ety, N.Y., July 1 - Oct. 25, 2015. “The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan 1811-Now,” online exhibition, thegreatest-grid.mcny.org. “Gregory Ain: Low-cost Modern Housing and the Construction of
a Social Landscape.” Wood-bury University Hollywood Outpost Gallery, Los Angeles, Apr. 4 - 26, 2015. “Hippie Modernism: The Strug-gle for Utopia.” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Oct. 24, 2015 - Feb. 28, 2016. “Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half.” Museum of the City of New York, Oct. 14, 2015 - Mar. 20, 2016. “Latin America in Construc-tion: Architecture 1955-1980.” Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar. 29 - July 19, 2015. “Mapping Brooklyn.” Gallery at BRIC House, Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 26 - May 3, 2015, and Brooklyn Historical Socie-ty, N.Y., Feb. 26 - Aug. 23, 2015. “Mapping the Young Metropo-lis: The Chicago School of So-ciology, 1919-2015.” Universi-ty of Chicago, Regenstein Li-brary, Special Collections De-partment, June 22 - Sept. 11, 2015. “One-Way Ticket: Jacob Law-rence’s Migration Series and Other Works.” Museum of Modern Art, New York, Apr. 3 - Sept. 7, 2015. “Personal Correspondents: Pho-tography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn.” Brooklyn Historical Society, N.Y., Apr. 9, 2015 - spring 2016. (Continued on next page)
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EXHIBITIONS
AND MEDIA
“¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.” The Bronx Muse-um of the Arts, N.Y., July 2 - Oct. 18, 2015. “Radically Modern: Urban Planning and Architecture in 1960s Berlin.” Berlinishce Ga-lerie, Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany, May 29 - Oct. 26, 2015. “Re-viewing Renewal.” Queens Museum, N.Y., Jan. 11 - Feb. 8, 2015. “Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks.” Muse-um of the City of New York, Apr. 21 - Sept. 13, 2015. “Selling Long Island: Commer-cial Maps of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” SPLIA Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., June 6 - Nov. 22, 2015. “Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die.” Museum of Lon-don, Oct. 17, 2014 - Apr. 12, 2015. “Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York.” New-York Historical Society, Nov. 13, 2015 - Apr. 17, 2016. “Sub Urbanisms: Casino Urban-ization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Land-scape.” Museum of Chinese in America, New York, Sept. 24, 2015 - Jan. 31, 2016. Tenderloin Museum, opening. San Francisco, June 17, 2015.
“Three Photographers from the Bronx: Jules Aarons, Morton Broffman, Joe Conzo.” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Feb. 26 - June 14, 2015. “Three Views of Oman: The Photography of Wilfred Thesi-ger, Charles Butt and Edward Grazda 1945-2006.” The Cooper Union, Houghton Gallery, New York, N.Y., Mar. 11 - Apr. 25, 2015. “Urban Reviewer,” online data-base, 596 Acres. urbanreview-er.org “We the People: The Citizens of NYCHA in Photos + Words.” Brooklyn Historical Society, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2014 - Mar. 8, 2015. “We Won’t Move!: Tenants Or-ganize in New York City.” Inter-ference Archive, Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar 26 - June 15, 2015. “Vienna: Pearl of the Reich.” Architekturzentrum Wien, Vien-na, Austria, Mar. 19 - Aug. 17, 2015.
~ Matthew Gordon Las-ner, UHA Bibliographer for exhibitions and media, is associate professor or urban studies, Department of Urban Policy & Planning, Hunter Col-lege. His research focuses on housing in the U.S. He is author of High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century.
Hagen, Joshua. “Shaping Public Opinion through Architecture and Urban Design: Perspectives on Ludwig I and His Building Program for a ‘New Munich.’” Central European History 48:1 (March 2015): 4-30.
Hofmann, Martin. “Remembrance of Revolutions Past—A Democratic Resource? 1989—Space of Remembrance in the ‘Hero Cities’ of Leipzig and Timişoara.” Journal of Ur-ban History 41:4 (July 2015): 679-692.
Kavaloski,Joshua. “The Haar-mann Case: Remapping the Weimar Republic.” German Quarterly 88:2 (Spring 2015): 219-241.
Kirchhof, Astrid Mignon. 2015. “‘For a Decent Quality of Life’: Environmental Groups in East and West Berlin.” Journal Of Urban History 41:4 (July 2015): 625-646.
Spicka, Mark E. “Cultural Cen-tres and Guest Worker Integra-tion in Stuttgart, Germany, 1960–1976.” Immigrants & Mi-norities 33:2 (July 2015): 117-140.
van der Will, Wilfried. “Berlin as a Terrain of Cultural Policy: Outline of a Struggle.” German Politics & Society 33: 1/2 (Summer 2015): 146-158.
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ARTICLES
Weiß, Peter Ulrich. “Civil Soci-ety from the Underground: The Alternative Antifa Network in the GDR.” Journal of Urban History 41:4 (July 2015): 647-664.
Willems, Bastiaan. “Defiant Breakwaters or Desperate Blun-ders? A Revision of the German Late-War Fortress Strategy.” Journal of Slavic Military Stud-ies 28:2 (April-June 2015): 353-378.
Zukas, Alex. “Inscribing Class Struggle in Space: Unemployed Protest in the Ruhr in Late Wei-mar Germany.” Labour History Review 80:1 (April 2015): 31-62.
Berek, Mathias. “Transfer Zones: German and Global Suf-fering in Dresden.” In Local Memories in Nationalizing and Globalizing World, edited by Marnix Beyen and Brecht De-seure. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmil-lan, 2015.
Cliver, Gwyneth and Carrie Smith-Prei. Bloom and Bust: Urban Landscapes in the East Since German Reunification. New York: Berghahn, 2015.
Harlander, Tilman. “Urbanism and Housing Policy in Nazi Ger-many: A Commentary.” In Ur-banism and Dictatorship: A Eu-ropean Perspective, edited by Harald Bodenschatz et al., 148-165. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2015.
Scheffler, Tanja. “The Technical Fairground in Leipzig in the Pe-riod of National Socialism. In Urbanism and Dictatorship: A European Perspective, edited by Harald Bodenschatz et al., 166-182. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2015.
~ Ute Chamberlin, UHA Bibliographer for German books and articles, is Assis-tant Professor of German Histo-ry at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. Her area of specialization is women and gender history. Her research in-terests are focused on women in the urban context of Imperial and Weimar Germany, in terms of education, charity, social work, and municipal politics, particularly in the Ruhr Valley.
Agier M. (2015), Anthropologie de la ville, PUF. Barzasi S. (2015), Haïti, l’his-toire en héritage, L’Harmattan.
Boissonade J. (ed.), (2015), La ville durable controversée. Les dynamiques urbaines dans le mouvement critique, Petra. Bove B. & C. Gauvard (ed.) (2014), Le Paris du Moyen-Age (Grand Prix de l’Histoire de Paris, 2015), Belin. Bouvet L. (2015), L’insécurité culturelle, Fayard, 2015. Cavé J. (2015), La ruée vers l’ordure, Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Collet A. (2015), Rester bour-geois. Les quartiers populaires, nouveaux chantier de la distinc-tion, La Découverte. Comby J. & E. Romanet Da Fonseca (ed.) (2015), Peurs dans la ville, Presses Universi-taires de Rennes. Damon J. & Th. Paquot (2014), Les 100 mots de la ville, PUF, collection ‘Que sais-je ?’ Danysz M. (2015), Anthologie du street art, Gallimard. Estèbe Ph. (2015), L’égalité des territoires, une passion fran-çaise, Presses Universitaires de France, collection ‘ville en dé-bat’. Foulquier E. & Ch. Lamberts, (2014), Gouverner les ports de commerce à l’heure libérale: Regards sur les pays d’Europe du Sud, Paris, CNRS éditions. (Continued on next page)
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FRENCH
BOOKS
Ghorra-Gobin C. (2015), La métropolisation en question, Presses Universitaires de France, collection ‘ville en dé-bat’. Gintrac C. & M. Giroud (ed.) (2014), Villes contestées. Les Prairies Ordinaires. Guinand S. (2015), Régénérer la ville, Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Guinard P. (2014), Johannes-burg : l’art d’inventer une ville, Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Hajek I. & Ph. Hamman (ed.) (2015), La gouvernance de la ville durable entre déclin et ré-invention. Une comparaison N/S, Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Héran F. (2014), Le retour de la bicyclette. Une histoire des dé-placements en Europe de 1817 à 2050, La Découverte. Jolivet V. (2015), Miami la cu-baine, Presses universitaires de Rennes. Kirszbaum Th. (ed.) (2015), En finir avec les banlieues ? L’Aube. Lambert A. (2015), « Tous pro-priétaires ! ». L’envers du dé-cor pavillonnaire, Seuil. Lemoine S. & Y. Tessier (2015), Les murs révoltés, Gal-limard. Masboungi A. (ed.) (2015), Ville et voiture, Parenthèses.
Perrot M. & A. Martin-Fugier (2015), La vie de famille au XIXème siècle, Seuil. Poznanski R. & D. Poznanski (2015), Drancy, un camp en France, Fayard. Rosanvallon P. (2015), La nou-velle question sociale, Seuil.
~ Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin, UHA Bibliographer for French books, is CNRS-
CREDA, University of Sorbonne
Nouvelle- Paris 3, visiting professor
UC Berkeley, spring semester,
2015.
Alanis, Mercedes. “Prevention rather than Cure: The Emer-gence and First Stage of the Centros De Higiene Infantil in Mexico City, 1922-1932.” Histo-ria Ciencias Saude-Manguinhos 22, no. 2 (APR-JUN, 2015): 391-409. Andermann, Jens. “Placing Latin American Memory: Sites and the Politics of Mourning.” Memory Studies 8, no. 1 (JAN, 2015): 3-8. Cosacov, Natalia and Mariano D. Perelman. “Struggles Over the use of Public Space: Explor-ing Moralities and Narratives of
Inequality. Cartoneros and Vecinos in Buenos Aires.” Journal of Latin American Studies 47, no. 3 (AUG, 2015): 521-542. Eyal, Hillel. “Beyond Net-works: Transatlantic Immigra-tion and Wealth in Late Coloni-al Mexico City.” Journal of Latin American Studies 47, no. 2 (MAY, 2015): 317-348. Fernandez Domingo, Enrique. “Study of the Origins and the Development of an Urban Structure: The Construction of the Sewage System in Santiago De Chile (1887-1910).” Histo-ria-Santiago 48, no. 1 (JAN-JUN, 2015): 119-193. Freeman, J. Brian. “History Travel by Tram. Public Trans-portation and the Political Cul-ture of the City of Mexico.” Americas 72, no. 3 (JUL, 2015): 521-522. Fuller, Stephanie. “‘The most Notorious Sucker-Trap in the Western Hemisphere’: The Ti-juana Story (Leslie Kardos, 1957) and Mythologies of Ti-juana in American Cinema.” Journal of American Studies 49, no. 3 (AUG, 2015): 523-539. Gilbert, Alan. “Cities from Scratch: Poverty and Informali-ty in Urban Latin America.” Journal of Latin American Studies 47, no. 1 (FEB, 2015): 202-203. (Continued on next page)
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Gomez Serrano, Jesus. “‘Refuges of Fantasy.’ Gardens and Water Management in Aguascalientes, 1855-1914.” Historia Mexicana 64, no. 3 (JAN-MAR, 2015): 1001-+. Goncalves, Rafael Soares. “Cities from Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America.” Hahr-Hispanic American Historical Review 95, no. 2 (MAY, 2015): 374-376. Konove, Andrew. “ON THE CHEAP: The Baratillo Market-place and the Shadow Economy of Eighteenth-Century Mexico City.” Americas 72, no. 2 (APR, 2015): 249-278. Lanctot, Brendan. “The Tiger and the Daguerreotype: Early Photography and Sovereignty in Post-Revolutionary Latin Amer-ica.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 24, no. 1 (JAN 2, 2015): 1-17. Lopez, Amanda M. “‘An Urgent Need for Hygiene’: Cremation, Class, and Public Health in Mexico City, 1879-1920.” Mex-ican Studies-Estudios Mexi-canos 31, no. 1 (WIN, 2015): 88-124. Roberts, Jodi. “A City in Dis-pute: Grete Stern’s Photographs of Buenos Aires, 1936-1956.” Journal of Latin American Cul-tural Studies 24, no. 2 (APR 3, 2015): 123-152. Suárez Acosta, Javier E., and Alexis E. Pirela Torres. “EL IMPACTO DEL PETRÓLEO EN LA CASA TRADICIONAL DE MARACAIBO. UNA
MIRADA DESDE EL ANÁLISIS HISTÓRICO- UR-BANO.” Arquitecturas Del Sur 33, no. 47 (June 2015): 74-83. Vitz, Matthew. ““To Save the Forests”: Power, Narrative, and Environment in Mexico City’s Cooking Fuel Transition.” Mexi-can Studies-Estudios Mexicanos 31, no. 1 (WIN, 2015): 125-155. Weld, Kristen. “Adios Nino: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death.” Historian 77, no. 1 (SPR, 2015): 127-128.
Almandoz Marte, Artu-ro. Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin Amer-ica, 1900s-2000s. New York: Routledge, 2014. Bergdoll, Barry, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Jorge Francisco Liernur, and Patricio Del Real. Latin America in Construction: Archi-tecture 1955-1980. New York: New York Museum of Art, 2015. Broughton, Chad. Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities. New York: Oxford Uni-versity Press, 2015. Burian, Edward R. The Architec-ture and Cities of Northern Mex-
ico from Independence to the Present: Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja California Norte and Sur. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Carballo, David M. Urbaniza-tion and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Mundy, Barbara E. The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City. Austin: Uni-versity of Texas Press, 2015. Murphy, Edward. For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010. Pittsburgh: Univer-sity of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. Velasco, Alejandro. Barrio Ris-ing: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Ven-ezuela. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015.
~ Maria A. Loftin, Latin America Articles and Books Bibliographer, is a doctoral candidate in the Histo-ry of Ideas program at the Uni-versity of Texas at Dallas. Her dissertation focuses on the built environment and consumerism in Mexico City and Monterrey in the post-Revolutionary era.
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Bretagnolle, Anne et al. “Urbanization of the United States over Two Centuries: An Approach Based on a Long-Term Database (1790-2010).” International Journal of Geo-graphical Information Science 29:5 (2015): 850-67.
Arkles, Janine Black. “Philadelphia Periwigs, Per-fumes, and Purpose: Black Bar-ber and Social Activist Joseph Cassey, 1789-1848.” Pennsylva-nia History 82:2 (2015): 140-61. Beamish, Anne. “Enjoyment in the Night: Discovering Leisure in Philadelphia’s Eighteenth-Century Rural Pleasure Gar-dens.” Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Land-scapes 35:3 (2015): 198-212. Johnson, Jessica Marie. “Death Rites as Birthrights in Atlantic New Orleans: Kinship and Race in the Case of María Teresa v. Perine Dauphine.” Slavery & Abolition 36:2 (2015): 233-56.
Mann, Alison T. “‘Horrible Bar-barity’: The 1837 Murder Trial of Dorcas Allen, a Georgetown Slave.” Washington History 27:1 (2015): 3-14. Marshall, Amani T. “‘They Are Supposed to Be Lurking about the City’: Enslaved Women Runaways in Antebellum Charleston,” South Carolina Historical Magazine 115:3 (2015): 188-212. O’Donnell, Patricia C. “This Side of the Grave: Navigating the Quaker Plainness Testimony in London and Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century.” Winter-thur Portfolio 49:1 (2015): 29-54. Olson, Shelley L. and Dilip K. Kondepudi. “The Swedish Roots of the Founder of the Bronx.” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 65:2 (2014): 59-76. Verplanck, Anne. “‘They Carry Their Religion . . . into Every Act of Their Public and Private Lives’: Quaker Consumption of Early Photographic Images in Philadelphia, 1839-1860.” Early American Studies 13:1 (2015): 237-78.
Armitage, Katie H. “‘Out of the Ashes’: The Rebuilding of Lawrence and the Quest for Quantrill Raid Claims.” Kansas History 37:4 (2014-2015): 226-41. Arnold, Brie Swenson. “An Op-portunity to Challenge the ‘Color Line’: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Women’s Labor Activism in Late Nineteenth-Century Cedar Rapids, Iowa.” Annals of Iowa 74:1 (2015): 101-41. Bergeson-Lockwood, Milling-ton W. “‘We Do Not Care Par-ticularly about the Skating Rinks’: African American Challenges to Racial Discrimi-nation in Places of Public Amusement in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Massachu-setts.” Journal of the Civil War Era 5:2 (2015): 254-88. Blackford, Mansel G. “Water in the Shaping of Columbus, Ohio, 1812-1912.” Ohio Histo-ry 122 (2015): 65-88. Boyd, Robert L. “The ‘Black Metropolis’ in the American Urban System of the Early Twentieth Century: Harlem, Bronzeville and Beyond.” In-ternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39:1 (2015): 129-44. (Continued on next page)
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GENERAL
U.S. ARTICLES
PRE-1865
U.S. ARTICLES
1865-1945
Boyle, Elizabeth A. “‘Becoming a Part of Her Innermost Being’: Gender, Mass-Production, and the Evolution of Department Store Culture in Edith Whar-ton’s ‘Bunner Sisters.’” Ameri-can Literary Realism 47:3 (2015): 203-18. Bunk, Brian D. “Sardinero and Not a Can of Sardines: Soccer and Spanish Ethnic Identities in New York City during the 1920s.” Journal of Urban His-tory 41:3 (2015): 444-59. Burkholder, Zoë. “‘A War of Ideas’: The Rise of Conserva-tive Teachers in Wartime New York City, 1938-1946.” History of Education Quarterly 55:2 (2015): 218-43. Carter, Nancy Carol. “Balboa Park Transformed: The Panama-California Exposition Land-scape.” Journal of San Diego History 61:1 (2015): 279-98. Cummins, Victoria H. “Black Clubwomen and the Promotion of the Visual Arts in Early Twentieth-Century Texas.” Southwestern Historical Quar-terly 119:1 (2015): 1-22. Dallek, Matthew. “London Burning: The Blitz of England and the Origins of ‘Home De-fense’ in Twentieth-Century America.” Journal of Policy History 27:2 (2015): 197-219. Dolinar, Brian. “Radicals on Relief: Black Chicago Writers and the WPA.” American Com-munist History 14:1 (2015): 27-39.
Dümpelmann, Sonja. “Designing the ‘Shapely City’: Women, Trees, and the City.” Journal of Landscape Architecture 10:2 (2015): 6-17. Ekman, Peter. “‘A Town Should Be Built to Make the Whole Thing Work’: Modeling Patter-son, City Beautiful of Califor-nia’s Central Valley.” Journal of Urban History 41:3 (2015): 460-78. Elkind, Sarah S. “Oil Drilling in the City: Zoning, Property Rights, and Regulation.” South-ern California Quarterly 97:3 (2015): 267-82. Farfsing, Kenneth C. “Black Gold in Paradise–Reclaiming Signal Hill: A History of the De-velopment of Signal Hill.” Southern California Quarterly 97:3 (2015): 244-66. Felber, Gilbert. “‘Harlem Is the Black World’: The Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Grassroots.” Journal of African American History 100:2 (2015): 199-225. Fermaglich, Kirsten. “‘Too Long, Too Foreign . . . Too Jew-ish’: Jews, Name Changing, and Family Mobility in New York City, 1917-1942.” Journal of American Ethnic History 34:3 (2015): 34-57. French, Jessica R. “‘Practical Club Work’: The Women’s Bindery Union and Twentieth Century Reform in Washington, D.C.” Washington History 27:1 (2015): 36-49.
Glotzer, Paige. “Exclusion in Arcadia: How Suburban Devel-opers Circulated Ideas about Discrimination, 1890-1950.” Journal of Urban History 41:3 (2015): 479-94. Gorbach, Julien. “The Journal-ist and the Gangster: A Devil’s Bargain, Chicago Style.” Jour-nalism History 41:1 (2015): 39-50. Gordon, Alan Ira. “Cholera in Worcester: A Study of the Nineteenth-Century Public Health Movement.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 42:1 (2014): 143-67. Gumprecht, Blake. “The Growth and Destruction of an Ethnic Neighborhood: Ports-mouth’s Italian North End, 1900-1970.” Historical New Hampshire 68:1-2 (2014): 50-68. Healey, Richard G. “Railroads, Factor Channelling and Increas-ing Returns: Cleveland and the Emergence of the American Manufacturing Belt.” Journal of Economic Geography 15:3 (2015): 499-538. Helquist, Michael. “‘Criminal Operations’: The First Fifty Years of Abortion Trials in Portland, Oregon.” Oregon His-torical Quarterly 116:1 (2015): 6-39. (Continued on next page)
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Hirt, Sonia. “The Rules of Resi-dential Segregation: US Hous-ing Taxonomies and Their Prec-edents.” Planning Perspectives 30:3 (2015): 367-95. Höhne, Stefan. “The Birth of the Urban Passenger: Infrastruc-tural Subjectivity and the Open-ing of the New York City Sub-way.” City 19:2-3 (2015): 313-21. Hoy, Suellen. “Chicago Work-ing Women’s Struggle for a Shorter Day, 1908-1911.” Jour-nal of the Illinois State Histori-cal Society 107:1 (2014): 9-44. Katz, Tamar. “Anecdotal Histo-ry: The New Yorker, Joseph Mitchell, and Literary Journal-ism.” American Literary History 27:3 (2015): 461-86. Labode, Modupe. “‘Defend Your Manhood and Woman-hood Rights’: The Birth of a Na-tion, Race, and the Politics of Respectability in Early Twenti-eth-Century Denver, Colorado.” Pacific Historical Review 84:2 (2015): 163-94. Leichtman, Ellen C. “The Ma-chine, the Mayor, and the Ma-rine: The Battle over Prohibition in Philadelphia, 1924-1925.” Pennsylvania History 82:2 (2015): 109-39. Marcus, Kenneth H. “Mexican Folk Music and Theater in Early Twentieth-Century Southern California: The Ramona Pag-eant and the Mexican Players.” Journal of the Society for Amer-ican Music 9:1 (2015): 26-60.
May, Vanessa. “‘Obtaining a Decent Livelihood’: Food Work, Race, and Gender in W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Philadelphia Ne-gro.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 12:1-2 (2015): 115-26. McClain, Molly. “A Room of Their Own: The Contribution of Women to the Panama-California Exposition, 1915.” Journal of San Diego History 61:1 (2015): 253-78. McDuffie, Erik S. “Chicago, Garveyism, and the History of the Diasporic Midwest.” African and Black Diaspora 8:2 (2015): 129-45. Mehaffy, Michael W., Sergio Porta and Ombretta Romice. “The ‘Neighborhood Unit’ on Trial: A Case Study in the Im-pacts of Urban Morphology.” Journal of Urbanism 8:2 (2015): 199-217. Morgan, Kent. “The 1890 Lin-coln Giants: Professional Base-ball’s Unlikely Return to Ne-braska’s Capital City.” Nebraska History 96:2 (2015): 84-99. Myers, Robert M. “Crane’s City: An Ecocritical Reading of Mag-gie.” American Literary Realism 47:3 (2015): 189-202. Nelson, Darin. “Camp Fire Girls versus Boy Scouts: A Friendly Game of Urban Forest-Building.” Chronicles of Okla-homa 92:2 (2014) 158-69. Petit, Jeanne. “Working for God, Country, and ‘Our Poor Mexi-cans’: Catholic Women and
Americanization at the San An-tonio National Catholic Com-munity House, 1919-1924.” Journal of American Ethnic History 34:3 (2015): 5-33. Putz, Paul Emory. “From the Pulpit to the Press: Frank Crane’s Omaha, 1892-1896.” Nebraska History 96:3 (2015): 136-53. Quam-Wickham, Nancy. “An ‘Oleaginous Civilization’: Oil in Southern California.” South-ern California Quarterly 97:3 (2015): 283-95. Raeburn, Bruce Boyd. “The Storyville Exodus Revisited, or Why Louis Armstrong Didn’t Leave in November 1917, Like the Movie Said He Did.” South-ern Quarterly 52:2 (2015): 10-33. Reel, Guy. “Dudes, ‘Unnatural Crimes,’ and a ‘Curious Cou-ple’: The National Police Gazette’s Oblique Coverage of Alternative Gender Roles in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Journalism History 41:2 (2015): 85-92. Ruis, A. R. “‘The Penny Lunch Has Spread Faster than the Measles’: Children's Health and the Debate over School Lunch-es in New York City, 1908-1930.” History of Education Quarterly 55:2 (2015): 190-217. (Continued on next page)
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Seiter, Jane I. et al. “Carving Chopsticks, Building Home: Wood Artifacts from the Market Street Chinatown in San Jose, California.” International Jour-nal of Historical Archaeology 19:3 (2015): 664-85. Spencer, Thomas M. “‘Everything Seems to be Going Backwards These Days’: The Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben in Oma-ha.” Nebraska History 96:2 (2015): 54-65. Stek, Pam. “The 1898 American Cereal Company Strike in Cedar Rapids: Gender, Ethnicity, and Labor in Late Nineteenth-Century Iowa.” Annals of Iowa 74:2 (2015): 142-76. Sunseri, Charlotte K. “Food Politics of Alliance in a Califor-nia Frontier Chinatown.” Inter-national Journal of Historical Archaeology 19:2 (2015): 416-31. Talen, Emily. “Do-it-Yourself Urbanism: A History.” Journal of Planning History 14:2 (2015): 135-48. Terrar, Toby. “Red Paradise: A Long Life in the San Diego Communist Movement.” Jour-nal of San Diego History 60:3 (2014): 145-81. Thacher, David. “Olmsted’s Po-lice.” Law and History Review 33:3 (2015): 577-620. Tyrell, Paul-Matthias. “Utilizing a Border as a Local Economic Resource: The Example of the Prohibition-Era Detroit-Windsor Borderland (1920-
33).” Comparative American Studies 13:1-2 (2015): 16-30. Wermiel, Sara E. “The Minneap-olis Lumber Exchange Fire of 1891 and Fire-Resisting Con-struction.” Minnesota History 64:3 (2014): 118-28. Wong, Julia. “A Neighbor to All: Madison’s Settlement House.” Wisconsin Magazine of History 98:4 (2015): 28-35.
Andersson, Johan. “‘Wilding’ in the West Village: Queer Space, Racism and Jane Jacobs Hagiog-raphy.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39:2 (2015): 265-83. Baldwin, Davarian L. “The ‘800-Pound Gargoyle’: The Long History of Higher Education and Urban Development on Chica-go’s South Side.” American Quarterly 67:1 (2015): 81-103. Beissel, Adam S., Michael Giardina and Joshua I. Newman. “Men of Steel: Social Class, Masculinity, and Cultural Citi-zenship in Post-Industrial Pitts-burgh.” Sport in Society 17:7 (2014): 953-76.
Benac, David. “The New Orle-ans Lakefront: Nostalgia and the Fate of New Urbanism.” Journal of Urban History 41:3 (2015): 388-403. Bezdecny, Kris. “Imagineering Uneven Geographical Develop-ment in Central Florida.” Geo-graphical Review 105:3 (2015): 325-43. Boston, Michael. “Bloneva Bond-A Longtime Niagara Falls, New York Activist.” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 38:2 (2014): 7-36. Burke, Patrick. “The Fugs, the Lower East Side, and the Slum Aesthetic in 1960s Rock.” Journal of the Society for American Music 8:4 (2014): 538-66. Calhoun, Claudia. “Where Houston Met Hollywood: Gi-ant, Glenn McCarthy, and the Construction of a Modern City.” Journal of Urban Histo-ry 41:3 (2015): 404-19. Carriere, Michael H. “Touch and Go Records and the Rise of Hardcore Punk in Late Twenti-eth-Century Detroit.” Cultural History 4:1 (2015): 19-41. Congelio, Brad J. “An Odyssey: The City of Los Angeles and the Olympic Movement, 1932-1984.” Southern California Quarterly 97:2 (2015): 178-212. (Continued on next page)
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U.S. ARTICLES
POST-1945
Connor, Michan Andrew. “Uniting Citizens After Citizens United: Cities, Democracy and Neoliberalism.” American Stud-ies 54:1 (2015): 5-28. Davis, Joshua Clark. “The Busi-ness of Getting High: Head Shops, Countercultural Capital-ism, and the Marijuana Legali-zation Movement.” The Sixties 8:1 (2015): 27-49. De La Trinidad, Maritza. “Mexican Americans and the Push for Culturally Relevant Education: The Bilingual Edu-cation Movement in Tucson, 1958-1969.” History of Educa-tion 44:3 (2015): 316-38. Doyle, Dennis A. “Black Celeb-rities, Selfhood, and Psychiatry in the Civil Rights Era: The Wiltwyck School for Boys and the Floyd Patterson House.” Social History of Medicine 28:2 (2015): 330-50. Escobar, Edward J. “The Unin-tended Consequences of the Carceral State: Chicana/o Politi-cal Mobilization in Post-World War II America.” Journal of American History 102:1 (2015): 174-84. Farley, Reynolds. “The Bank-ruptcy of Detroit: What Role did Race Play?” City & Com-munity 14:2 (2015): 118-37.
Fields, Desiree. “Contesting the Financialization of Urban Space: Community Organizations and the Struggle to Preserve Afford-able Rental Housing in New York City.” Journal of Urban Affairs 37:2 (2015): 144-65. Flaherty, Anne Boxberger and Carly Hayden Foster. “Gateway to Equality: Desegregation and the American Association of University Women in St. Louis, Missouri.” Women’s History Re-view 24:2 (2015): 191-214 Frame, Robert M., III, and Rich-ard E. Mitchell. “Constructing Suburbia: The Hidden Role of Prestressed Concrete.” Minneso-ta History 64:4 (2014-2015): 158-72. Gray, Mia and James DeFilippis. “Learning from Las Vegas: Un-ions and Post-industrial Urbani-sation.” Urban Studies 52:9 (2015): 1683-1701. Gunckel, Colin. “The Chicano/a Photographic: Art as Social Practice in the Chicano Move-ment.” American Quarterly 67:2 (2015): 377-412. Herrington, Susan. “Fraternally Yours: The Union Architecture of Oskar Stonorov and Walter Reuther.” Social History 40:3 (2015): 360-84. Hinton, Elizabeth. “‘A War within Our Own Boundaries’: Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the Rise of the Carceral State.” Journal of American His-tory 102:1 (2015): 100-12.
Hume, Susan E. “Two Decades of Bosnian Place-making in St. Louis, Missouri.” Journal of Cultural Geography 32:1 (2015): 1-22. Jacobs, Michelle R. “Urban American Indian Identity: Ne-gotiating Indianness in North-east Ohio.” Qualitative Sociolo-gy 38:1 (2015): 79-98. Janken, Kenneth R. “Remembering the Wilmington Ten: African American Politics and Judicial Misconduct in the 1970s.” North Carolina Histor-ical Review 92:1 (2015): 1-48. Kirk, John A. “Going off the Deep End: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Swim-ming Pools.” Arkansas Histori-cal Quarterly 73:2 (2014): 138-63. Lassiter, Matthew D. “Impossible Criminals: The Suburban Imperatives of Amer-ica’s War on Drugs.” Journal of American History 102:1 (2015): 126-40. Levy, Jessica Ann. “Selling At-lanta: Black Mayoral Politics from Protest to Entrepreneur-ism, 1973 to 1990.” Journal of Urban History 41:3 (2015): 420-43. McClellan, Guy. “Sierra Sprawl: Yosemite’s Age of De-centralization, 1956-1966.” California History 92:3 (2015): 37-54. (Continued on next page)
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McGee, Nathan. “If You Can’t Go Home, Take Some of It with You: Twentieth-Century Appa-lachian Migration and the Music of Renfro Valley.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 112:4 (2014): 589-611. McShane, Charles C. “Alcohol, Religion, and Economic Devel-opment in Charlotte, North Car-olina: The Debate over Liquor-by-the-Drink, 1965-1980.” North Carolina Historical Re-view 92:2 (2015): 165-99. Murch, Donna. “Crack in Los Angeles: Crisis, Militarization, and Black Response to the Late Twentieth-Century War on Drugs.” Journal of American History 102:1 (2015): 162-73. Olejarski, Amanda M. and Kathryn Webb Farley. “The Lit-tle Blue Pill That Killed the Lit-tle Pink House: A Narrative of Eminent Domain.” Administra-tion & Society 47:4 (2015): 369-92. Patton, Elizabeth A. “Transforming Work into Play and Play into Work within the Domestic Sphere: Hugh Hef-ner’s Live-work Revolution and the Making of the ‘Knowledge/Cultural’ Professional.” Media History 21:1 (2015): 101-16. Reft, Ryan. “The Privatization of Military Family Housing in Linda Vista, 1944-1956.” Cali-fornia History 92:1 (2015): 53-72. Ren‚ Luis Alvarez. “‘A Com-munity That Would Not Take “No” For an Answer’: Mexican
Americans, the Chicago Public Schools, and the Founding of Benito Juárez High School.” Journal of Illinois History 17:1 (2014): 78-98. Roy, Ananya, Stuart Schrader, and Emma Shaw Crane. “‘The Anti-Poverty Hoax’: Develop-ment, Pacification, and the Mak-ing of Community in the Global 1960s.” Cities 44 (2015): 139-45. Rury, John L. “Trouble in Sub-urbia: Localism, Schools and Conflict in Postwar Johnson County, Kansas.” History of Ed-ucation Quarterly 55:2 (2015): 133-63. Ryberg-Webster, Stephanie. “Urban Policy in Disguise: A History of the Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit.” Journal of Planning History 14:3 (2015): 204-23. Scharlau, Kevin. “Navigating Change in the Homophile Heart-land: Kansas City’s Phoenix So-ciety and the Early Gay Rights Movement, 1966-1971.” Mis-souri Historical Review 109:4 (2015): 234-53. Schrock, Greg. “Remains of the Progressive City? First Source Hiring in Portland and Chicago.” Urban Affairs Review 51:5 (2015): 649-75. Schwarzer, Mitchell. “Oakland City Center: The Plan to Reposi-tion Downtown within the Bay Region.” Journal of Planning History 14:2 (2015): 88-111.
Scott, Damon. “Before the Cre-ative Class: Blight, Gay Mov-ies, and Family Values in the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood, 1964.” Journal of Planning History 14:2 (2015): 149-73. Slavishak, Edward. “The Logi-cal Place to Take a Picture: William Gedney in Bethle-hem.” Pennsylvania History 81:4 (2014): 451-76. Smith, John Matthew. “The Resurrection: Atlanta, Racial Politics, and the Return of Mu-hammad Ali.” Southern Cul-tures 21:2 (2015): 5-26. Souther, J. Mark. “A US$35 Million ‘Hole in the Ground’: Metropolitan Fragmentation and Cleveland’s Unbuilt Down-town Subway.” Journal of Planning History 14:3 (2015): 179-203. Sterba, Christopher M. “‘We Built Our Own School’: The Cooperative Preschool Move-ment in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1940 to the Present.” Western Historical Quarterly 46:2 (2015): 191-215. Stewart-Winter, Timothy. “Queer Law and Order: Sex, Criminality, and Policing in the Late Twentieth-Century United States.” Journal of American History 102:1 (2015): 61-72. (Continued on next page)
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Wells, Katie J. “A Housing Cri-sis, a Failed Law, and a Proper-ty Conflict: The US Urban Speculation Tax.” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 47:4 (2015): 1043-61. White, Khadijah. “Belongingness and the Harlem Drummers.” Urban Geography 36:3 (2015): 340-58. Whittemore, Andrew H. “The New Communalism: The Unre-alized Mid-Twentieth Century Vision of Planned Unit Devel-opment.” Journal of Planning History 14:3 (2015): 244-59. Wild, Mark. “Liberal Protestants and Urban Renew-al.” Religion and American Cul-ture 25:1 (2015): 110-46. Wiltse, Jeff. “The Black-White Swimming Disparity in Ameri-ca: A Deadly Legacy of Swim-ming Pool Discrimination.” Journal of Sport & Social Issues 38:4 (2014): 366-89.
~ Todd M. Michney, U.S. Articles Bibliographer, is Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of History and Soci-ology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses in 20th century United States history and is a research associate at the Center for Ur-ban Innovation. He is currently completing revisions to his book manuscript, Changing Neigh-borhoods: Black Upward Mo-bility in Cleveland, 1900-1980.
Abreu, Christina D. Rhythms of Race: Cuban Musicians and the Making of Latino New York City and Miami, 1940-1960. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Adams, James H. Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia: The Faithful and the Fallen. Lanham: Lexing-ton Books, 2015. Barrow, Heather B. Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illi-nois University Press, 2015. Beauregard, Robert A. Planning Matter: Acting with Things. Chi-cago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Bloom, Nicholas Dagen. The Metropolitan Airport: JFK Inter-national and Modern New York. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Broughton, Chad. Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities. New York: Oxford Uni-versity Press, 2015. Brown, Evrick and Timothy Shortell, eds. Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban
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Theory, Method, and Practice. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. Brown, Kate. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plu-tonium Disasters. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Buggein, Gretchen Townsend. The Suburban Church: Modern-ism and Community in Postwar America. Minneapolis: Universi-ty of Minnesota Press, 2015. Byrd, Samuel Kyle. The Sounds of Latinidad: Immigrants Mak-ing Music and Creating Culture in a Southern City. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Chaskin, Robert J. Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation. Chica-go: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Cooley, Angela Jill. To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2015. Corbin, Amy Lynn. Cinematic Geographies and Multicultural Spectatorship in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. (Continued on next page)
U.S. BOOKS
Daly, Nicholas. The Demo-graphic Imagination and the Nineteenth-Century City. Paris, London New York. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. DeVore, Donald E. Defying Jim Crow: African American Com-munity Development and the Struggle for Racial Equality in New Orleans, 1900-1960. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univer-sity Press, 2015. Domanick, Joe. Blue: the LAPD and the Battle to Redeem Amer-ican Policing. New York: Si-mon & Schuster, 2015. Drake, St. Clair. Black Metrop-olis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Chicago: Univer-sity of Chicago Press, 2015. (reissue) Faber, Eberhard. Building the Land of Dreams: New Orleans and the Transformation of Early America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. Fink, Leon. The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Or-der. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Friss, Evan. The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Frohne, Andrea E. The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Freund, David M.P. The Modern American Metropolis: A Docu-mentary Reader. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. Gallo, Marcia M. No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Ur-ban Apathy. Ithaca: Cornell Uni-versity Press, 2015. Geismer, Lily. Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Demo-cratic Party. Princeton: Prince-ton University Press, 2015. Gessen, Keith and Stephen Squibb, eds. City by City: Dis-patches from the American Me-tropolis. New York: n+1/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015. Hart, Tanya. Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotia-tion of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915-1930. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Howard, Vicki. From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Howell, Ocean. Making the Mis-sion: Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco. Chicago: Univer-sity of Chicago Press, 2015. Isenstadt, Sandy, Margaret Maile Petty, and Dietrich Neumann, eds., Cities of Light: Two Centu-ries of Urban Illumination, New York: Routledge Judd, Dennis R. and Stephanie L. Witt, eds. Cities, Sagebrush,
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and Solitude: Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin. Reno: University of Ne-vada Press, 2015. Karibo, Holly M. Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Kelley, Robin DG and Stephen G.N. Tuck, eds. The Other Spe-cial Relationship: Race, Rights, and Riots in Britain and the United States. New York: Pal-grave Macmillan, 2015 Kephart, Beth. Love. A Philadel-phia Affair. Philadelphia: Tem-ple University Press, 2015. Kinbacher, Kurt E. Urban Vil-lages and Local Identities: Ger-mans from Russia, Omaha Indi-ans, and Vietnamese in Omaha, Nebraska, Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2015. Kinchen, Shirletta J. Black Pow-er in the Bluff City: African American Youth and Student Ac-tivism in Memphis, 1965-1975. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2015. Kwak, Nancy H. A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2015. Lane, Barbara Miller. Houses for a New World: Builders and Buy-ers in American Suburbs, 1945-1965. Princeton: Princeton Uni-versity Press, 2015. (Continued on next page)
LaPier, Rosalyn R. and David Beck. City Indian: Native Amer-ican Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Laslett, John H.M. Shameful Victory: The Los Angeles Dodg-ers, the Red Scare, and the Hid-den History of Chavez Ravine. Tucson: The University of Ari-zona Press, 2015. Lawrence, Susan C. Civil War Washington: History, Place, and Digital Scholarship. Lin-coln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Lindner, Christoph. Imagining New York City: Literature, Ur-banism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Longhurst, James. Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the Ameri-can Road. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. Looker, Benjamin. A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cit-ies, Communities, and Democ-racy in Postwar America. Chi-cago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Maly, Michael T. and Heather M. Dalmage. Vanishing Eden: White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Ra-cially Changing City. Philadel-phia: Temple University Press, 2015.
Marovich, Robert M. A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. McComb, David. The City in Texas: A History. Austin: Uni-versity of Texas Press, 2015. McDonald, John F. Postwar Ur-ban America: Demography, Economics, and Social Policies. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. Moses, Paul. An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Pacyga, Dominic A. Slaughter-house: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pagano, Michael A. The Return of the Neighborhood as an Ur-ban Strategy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. Petrus, Stephen and Ronald D. Cohen. Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Reviv-al. New York: Oxford Universi-ty Press, 2015. Platt, Harold L. Building the Ur-ban Environment: Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin Ameri-ca. Philadelphia: Temple Uni-versity Press, 2015.
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Pollack, Deborah C. Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. Remes, Jacob A.C., Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidari-ty, and Power in the Progressive Era. Urbana: University of Illi-nois Press, 2015. Ryan, Dan. Ghosts of Organiza-tions Past: Communities of Or-ganizations as Settings for Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. Schumacher, Geoff. Sun, Sin & Suburbia: The History of Mod-ern Las Vegas. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2015. Slap, Andrew L. Confederate Cities: The Urban South During the Civil War Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Snyder, Robert W. Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. Sorenson, John. A Sister’s Mem-ories: The Life and Work of Grace Abbott from the Writings of Her Sister, Edith Abbott. Chi-cago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Stephenson, R. Bruce. John No-len, Landscape Architect and City Planner. Amherst: Univer-sity of Massachusetts Press, 2015. (Continued on next page)
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Stevenson, Brenda. The Con-tested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Tang, Eric. Unsettled: Cambo-dian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. Teixeira, Carlos and Li Wei. I The Housing and Economic Ex-periences of Immigrants in US and Canadian Cities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. Wanzer-Serrano, The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015. Weber, Rachel. From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago. Chicago: Univer-sity of Chicago Press, 2015. White, Timothy R. Blue-collar Broadway: The Craft and In-dustry of American Theater. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
~ Katie Schank, UHA U.S. Books bibliographer, a Ph.D. candidate in American studies at George Washington University, is finishing a disser-tation on visual representations of slums and public housing in Atlanta during the twentieth century.
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university faculty, architects, archi-
vists, civil servants, editors, inde-
pendent scholars, museum profes-
sionals, planner, public historians,
and secondary school teachers. The
association has made a particular
effort to reach scholars and profes-
sionals whose interests lie outside
stones and news, reports on re-
search in progress, teaching, and
museum exhibits, as well as news
on the activities of the association.
The association launched its first
biennial urban history conference in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Sep-
tember 26-28, 2002. Since 1990 the
Association has awarded annual
prizes for the best book in North
American urban history and the
best dissertation and best article in
urban history from the previous
year. Every two years it awards a
prize for the best book in non-North
American history. Members receive
discounted subscriptions to the
Journal of Urban History, Planning
Perspectives (UK), and Urban His-
tory (UK). The Association also
maintains a presence on the inter-
net. It has an official website for
members, which features back is-
sues of the newsletter, links to H-
Urban, links to other urban history
web sites, syllabi exchanges, confer-
ence announcement, and news.
About the Urban History Association
The Urban History Association
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