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| Interpreting Urban and Suburban History | |
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| From the History of the City to the History of the Urbanized Society | |
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| The Triumph of Burbopolis | |
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| The New Paradigms of Urban History | |
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| Colonial Seaports and Trading Posts, 16001770 | |
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| Documents | |
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| Edward Johnson Tells How God and Trade Made New England Prosper, 1654 | |
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| The Rev. Hugh Jones Describes Economic Life and Settlement in Early Maryland, 1699 | |
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| Philadelphia, 1702 | |
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| William Moraley, an Indentured Servant, Enjoys a Moment of Freedom in Philadelphia, 1729 | |
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| A Record of Charleston's Exports, 17351736 | |
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| Peter Kalm Considers Trade in 1740s New York | |
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| Elizabeth Sandwith, a Wealthy Young Philadelphian, Describes Her Work, 17581760 | |
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| Auguste Chouteau Remembers the Founding of St. Louis, 1763 | |
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| A Philadelphian Worries About Competition from Baltimore, 1767 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Web of Seaport Life, 16001700 | |
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| Independent Women in Colonial | |
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| Constructing the House of Chouteau | |
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| The "Lower Sort" in Early American Cities, 17401825 | |
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| Documents | |
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| Dr. Alexander Hamilton Interacts with His Peers and Social Inferiors in Philadelphia, 1744 | |
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| Josiah Quincy, Jr., Laments Revolutionary Mob Action in Boston, 1765 | |
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| A White Observer Deplores the Celebration of Pinkster in Albany, 1803 | |
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| William Otter Brags About His Exploits as a Young Hoodlum in New York, 18061807 | |
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| Estwick Evans Describes the Exotic but Immoral City of New Orleans, 1818 | |
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| A Charleston African American Testifies | |
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| About His Involvement in the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy, 1822 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Managing Social Conflict in Philadelphia's | |
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| Interracial Festivity and Power in Albany, New York | |
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| Economic Growth and Social Change, 18251860 | |
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| Documents | |
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| David Johnson Recalls His Apprenticeship in Lynn, Massachusetts, ca. 1830 | |
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| Harriet Martineau Visits Chicago in Its Infancy, 1836 | |
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| A Rochester Workingman Debates an Employer, 1840 | |
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| Mary Paul Writes Home About Her Lowell Textile-Mill Experience, 18451846 | |
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| Benjamin Moore Norman Predicts a Glorious Future for New Orleans, 1845 | |
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| Bayard Taylor Observes San Francisco During the Gold Rush, 1849 | |
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| An Advertisement Promotes the "City of Nininger," Late 1850s | |
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| Essays | |
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| Booster Dreams | |
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| Industrialization in Newark | |
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| Dealing with Sickness and Sanitation, 18301900 | |
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| Documents | |
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| John Pintard Writes to His Daughter Eliza About the Cholera Epidemic of 1832 | |
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| Bill of Mortality for the City of Boston, 1835 | |
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| A New Orleans Newspaper Warns That Filthy Streets Will Cause Disease, 1853 | |
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| Dr. Ezra R. Pulling Reports Unhealthy Conditions Among New York's Poor, ca. 1860 | |
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| B. E. Lloyd Sensationalizes Health Conditions in San Francisco's Chinatown, 1876 | |
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| George E. Waring, Jr., Complains That Memphis Is Still Unsanitary, 1882 | |
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| A City Street Before and After Sanitation Reform | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Necropolis of the South | |
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| White Fears and the Racialization of Disease in San Francisco | |
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| Class Relations in the Industrial Metropolis, 18501900 | |
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| James W. Gerard Pleads for Better Police Protection in New York, 1853 | |
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| Charles Loring Brace Boasts of His "Remedy for Juvenile Pauperism," 1872 | |
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| Troops Fire on Rioters in Baltimore, 1877 | |
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| Richard T. Ely Weighs the Benefits and Disadvantages of Life in a Company Town, 1885 | |
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| Chicago Anarchists Call for Workers to Protest Police Brutality, 1886 | |
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| Jacob Riis Warns of the Social Dangers Posed by Bad Housing, 1890 | |
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| Jane Addams Explains the Need for Settlement Houses, 1892 | |
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| Twenty-Five Largest American Cities, 1900 (map and population table) | |
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| Essays | |
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| Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets | |
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| The Suburban Home as the Answer to Middle-Class Hopes and Fears | |
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| Great Migrations, 18701930 | |
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| Immigrants Tell About Their Experiences in America, ca. 1900: The Story of a Lithuanian; The Story of a Polish Sweatshop Girl; The Story of an Italian Bootblack | |
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| Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama Depicts His First Job in San Francisco, ca. 1904 | |
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| Immigrants in American Cities, 1910 | |
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| Growth of Black Urban Communities, 19101930 | |
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| Southern African Americans Discuss the Advantages of Moving to Northern Cities, 1917 | |
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| Southern African Americans Tell Why They Came to Chicago, 1922 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Immigrant Newcomers in Turn-of-the-Century Pittsburgh | |
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| Southern Blacks' Migration to Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century | |
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| Changing Technology and Urban Space, 18701930 | |
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| William Gray Brooks Sees Boston Disrupted by a Horse Disease, 1872 | |
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| Julian Ralph Marvels at the Electricity and Skyscrapers in High-Speed Chicago, 1892 | |
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| New York Pedestrians Confront Reckless Drivers, 1902 | |
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| Horses, Wagons, and Automobiles, St. Louis, 19021920 | |
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| The Diary of a Hartford Motorist, 1911 | |
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| John Ihlder, a City Planner, Considers the Effects of the Automobile, 1924 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Uniting Commerce and Culture in the Early Skyscraper | |
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| Automobile Versus Pedestrian in Hartford | |
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| Bosses, Reformers, and Urban Professionals, 18701930 | |
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| Richard Croker Defends Tammany Hall, 1892 | |
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| James Bryce Deplores Boss Politics, 1895 | |
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| Jane Addams Explains "Why the Ward Boss Rules," 1898 | |
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| Martha A. B. Conine Tells How Denver Women Entered Local Politics, 1898 | |
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| Big Tim Sullivan Hosts His Annual Picnic, 1903 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Rise of Big | |
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| A Reappraisal of Bosses and Reformers in City Government | |
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| Neighborhood and Community, 18801945 | |
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| Dong Tong, a Chinese American, Confronts Racial Zoning in Baltimore, 1911 | |
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| A Gay Professor Describes Gay Community Life in Denver and Other Cities, ca. 1910 | |
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| Graham Romeyn Taylor Analyzes Community Building in Industrial Suburbs, 1915 | |
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| J. C. Nichols, a Kansas City Developer, Touts the Community Features of Suburbs, 1924 | |
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| Harvey Warren Zorbaugh Denies the Existence of Normal Community Life in a Furnished Room District of Chicago, 1929 | |
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| An African American Neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936 | |
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| St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton Celebrate the Vitality of Chicago's Bronzeville, 1945 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Polish Settlement in West Hammond, Illinois, 18901911 | |
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| Community Life in Chicago's Packingtown, 18941922 | |
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| Leisure Time and Popular Culture, 18901945 | |
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| Reformer Belle Israels Moskowitz Tells How Working Girls Want to Have Fun, 1909 | |
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| Collier's Magazine Tells How City Children Adapted Baseball, 1911 | |
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| The Rev. John J. Phelan Assesses Movies in Toledo, Ohio, 1919 | |
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| Elisha Silva Describes Her Job in a Los Angeles Dance Hall, 1920s | |
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| Mexican Ballads Justify and Condemn Immigration, 1924 | |
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| Bachelors Explain Why They Attend Taxi-Dance Halls, ca. 1930 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Institutional World of Urban Bachelors | |
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| Familiar Sounds of Change in Mexican Los Angeles | |
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| Race and Redevelopment, 19451975 | |