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Urban History / Studies



link to catalog page LESLIE, Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 Author: Thomas Leslie
Pub Date: July 2013

A detailed tour, inside and out, of Chicago's distinctive towers from an earlier age   learn more...

link to catalog page TORRES, Citizens in the Present

Citizens in the Present

Youth Civic Engagement in the Americas

Author: Maria de los Angeles Torres, Irene Rizzini, and Norma Del Río
Pub Date: July 2013

A transnational study of active and engaged urban youth   learn more...

link to catalog page DOODY, Detroit's Cold War

Detroit's Cold War

The Origins of Postwar Conservatism

Author: Colleen Doody
Pub Date: January 2013

An essential contribution to the history of anticommunism and postwar conservatism   learn more...

link to catalog page LICHTMAN, Organized Crime in Chicago

Organized Crime in Chicago

Beyond the Mafia

Author: Robert M. Lombardo
Pub Date: January 2013

Explaining Chicago's mix of crime, corruption, and politics   learn more...

link to catalog page GALLAGHER, Black Women and Politics in New York City Author: Julie A. Gallagher
Pub Date: June 2012

Black women as liberal reformers, from suffrage to civil rights   learn more...

link to catalog page ARMFIELD, Eugene Kinckle Jones

Eugene Kinckle Jones

The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940

Author: Felix L. Armfield
Pub Date: January 2012

The biography of an important agent for black social change in the early twentieth century   learn more...

link to catalog page BRADLEY, Harlem vs. Columbia University

Harlem vs. Columbia University

Black Student Power in the Late 1960s

Author: Stefan M. Bradley
Pub Date: Cloth: 2009; Paper: August 2012

A vigorous study of the black activism and civil disobedience that rocked the Ivy League in the 1960s   learn more...

link to catalog page WALLACE, Media Capital

Media Capital

Architecture and Communications in New York City

Author: Aurora Wallace
Pub Date: November 2012

The buildings and spaces of New York City's mass media landscape   learn more...

link to catalog page KAPP, SynergiCity

SynergiCity

Reinventing the Postindustrial City

Author: Edited by Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong
Pub Date: November 2012

Revitalizing Rust Belt cities into vibrant urban centers   learn more...

link to catalog page JUNGER, Becoming the Second City

Becoming the Second City

Chicago's Mass News Media, 1833-1898

Author: Richard Junger
Pub Date: January 2010

A colorful history of Chicago journalism in the nineteenth century   learn more...

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