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A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans
C
"Can't Forget the Motor City": Remembering Detroit's Past through Its Music
California History and Race Relations
Cultural and Intellectual History of American Cities
Curses: The Story of Bad Luck in Boston, Chicago, and Buffalo Sports Teams
D
"Dancing in the Street": The Politics of Motown Music
E
Engineering Sustainability: Urban Infrastructure and Ecological Crisis in the Twentieth Century
F
"For the Accommodation of Strangers": The Invention of the Hotel and the Making of a Cosmopolitan America
Family Properties: Racial Exploitation, Urban Decay, and Community Activism in Mid-Twentieth-Century Chicago
From Colts to Cobras: Street Gangs in Chicago across the Twentieth Century
H
History of Los Angeles
History of New York City
History of the Urban Rebellions and the Militarization of Policing
I
"I Became . . . a Negro Myself": The "Old South" as a Model for the Twentieth-Century City
Irish Americanization on Stage: How Irish Musicians, Playwrights, and Writers Created a New Urban American Culture
J
Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North
K
Katrina in Context: An Environmental History of New Orleans
L
Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the New American City
M
Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: American Governance and the Politics of Animal Control, 1850–1920
Metronatural: The Nature of Inequality in the North American City
O
On the Eve of Katrina: Life in Late-Twentieth-Century New Orleans
P
Policing, Urban Culture, and Liberal Politics after World War II
Power Lines: How Energy from Indian Lands Fueled the Growth of Phoenix, Los Angeles, and the Postwar Southwest
Public History and Pride of Place in Minority-Majority Cities
R
Race and Rust: The Transformation of the Postwar American City
Race and the American City after World War II
Reading Race and Gender in Everyday Landscapes
Remixed: Storylines from Metropolitan America
S
Sex and the City: Jane Addams Confronts Prostitution
Sundown Towns and What They Should Do Today
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten History of Civil Rights in the North
T
The "Garbage Ladies" of the Settlements: Environmental Justice Reform in Progressive-Era Chicago
The Agony of Whiteness: How Jews Moved Out of the Eastside and What Difference It Makes for Race in Los Angeles
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
The Future of New York City
The New Racial Frontier: Minority-Majority Cities in Contemporary America
The Origins of the New Right
The Recent Roots of Present-Day Homelessness
The Roots of the Rural-Urban Divide
The Suburban Crisis
The Suburbs and the War on Drugs
The Tenderness of Men in Suburbs: My Photographs in Boston in 1968
U
"Unsophisticated Buyers": Black Homeownership and the Urban Crisis of the 1970s
UniverCities: The Long History of Higher Education and the Transformation of Urban America
Urban Origins of American Judaism
V
Vanishing Point: Picturing Chicago's Jewish Ghetto
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