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Urban History / Studies



link to catalog page FUERST, When Public Housing Was Paradise

When Public Housing Was Paradise

Building Community in Chicago

Author: J. S. Fuerst, with the assistance of D. Bradford Hunt
Pub Date: 2005

True tales of public housing's possibilities from the people who lived and worked there   learn more...

link to catalog page WAGNER, African American Miners and Migrants

African American Miners and Migrants

The Eastern Kentucky Social Club

Author: Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller
Pub Date: 2004

The history of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club’s past and present bring the hidden aspects of Appalachian history and culture to life   learn more...

link to catalog page MADIGAN, Global Chicago Author: Edited by Charles Madigan
Pub Date: 2004

The economic development and transformation of Chicago from industrial powerhouse to global metropolis   learn more...

link to catalog page ADDAMS, My Friend, Julia Lathrop Author: Jane Addams
Pub Date: 2004

The biography of one Jane Addams' best friends, written after Julia Lathrop’s death   learn more...

link to catalog page GANZ, Pots of Promise

Pots of Promise

Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40

Author: Edited by Cheryl R. Ganz and Margaret Strobel
Pub Date: May 2004

Presenting the Mexican artisans of Hull House and the history of its kilns and pottery   learn more...

link to catalog page SHOCKLEY,

"We, Too, Are Americans"

African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54

Author: Megan Taylor Shockley
Pub Date: November 2004

The story of how African American women used their wartime contributions on the home front to push for increased rights to equal employment,welfare benefits, worker equity and desegration of volunteer associations during WWII. The crucible for the civil rights movement.   learn more...

link to catalog page DASH, When Children Want Children

When Children Want Children

The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing

Author: Leon Dash
Pub Date: 2003

When Washington Post reporter Leon Dash set out to investigate the ever-lowering age of teenage parents, what he discovered shocked him: these pregnancies were almost always intentional.   learn more...

link to catalog page CHA-JUA, America's First Black Town

America's First Black Town

Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915

Author: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2002

The courageous story of the first all-Black free town in the United States   learn more...

link to catalog page KEATING, Building Chicago

Building Chicago

Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis

Author: Ann Durkin Keating
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page BOWEN, Growing Up with a City Author: Louise de Koven Bowen
Pub Date: 2002

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