Historical Studies of Urban America

A series from the University of Chicago Press

Timothy J. Gilfoyle, James R. Grossman, and Becky M. Nicolaides, Series Editors

• 1995 Sawislak, Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874
• 1996 McGreevy, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North
• 1997 Radford, Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era
• 1998 Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
• 1998 Powers, Faces along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920
• 1999 Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877
• 2000 Page, The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
• 2002 Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
• 2002 Pritchett, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto
• 2003 Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863
• 2004 Bachin, Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919
• 2005 Garb, City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
• 2005 Isenberg, Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It
• 2005 Keating, Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age
• 2005 Nelson, The Elusive Ideal: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston's Public Schools, 1950-1985
• 2005 Seligman, Block by Block: Neighborhoods and Public Policy on Chicago's West Side
• 2005 Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century
• 2006 Gilfoyle, Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark
• 2006 Green, Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955
• 2006 Sugrue/Kruse, The New Suburban History
• 2007 Freund, Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America
• 2008 Gilfoyle/Horowitz/American Antiquarian Society/Cohen, The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
• 2008 Lewis, Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis
• 2008 McKee, The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia
• 2009 Brooks, Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
• 2009 Fronc, New York Undercover: Private Surveillance in the Progressive Era
• 2009 Heap, Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
• 2009 Hunt, Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
• 2009 Trotter/Kusmer, African American Urban History since World War II
• 2010 Stanger-Ross, Staying Italian: Urban Change and Ethnic Life in Postwar Toronto and Philadelphia