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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

at [email protected].

(Continued on page 8)

mailto:[email protected]

Co-Winner of the UHA Kenneth Jackson Award for

Best Book (North American), 2014


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


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


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


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


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.

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,

[email protected].

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



“The Working Urban”“The Working Urban”“The Working Urban” The Eighth Biennial Conference of the


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

[email protected].

CALL FOR PAPERS




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

http://uha.udayton.edu/conf.html



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


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


“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


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

[email protected].

- Timothy B. Neary

UHA Executive Director



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.


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.

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ANNOUNCEMENTSANNOUNCEMENTSANNOUNCEMENTS


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

http://uha.udayton.edu/officers.html

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.



http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/HSUA.html#tab-date

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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

http://www.chicagohistory.org/planavisit/upcomingevents/lectures-and-seminars/


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



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

[email protected].

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

[email protected]

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.

http://www.urban.org/events/opportunity-urban-america





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



http://www.landscapesofinjustice.com

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)



http://arc-hum.princeton.edu/forum

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.



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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“¡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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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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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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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)



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)



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)



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)



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



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,



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.



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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A special thank

you, as usual, to

this issue’s

bibliography

volunteers:

Todd Michney,

Katie Schank,

Maria Loftin,

Ute Chamberlin,

Cynthia Ghorra-

Gobin, and

Matthew

Lasner.

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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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