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A

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

Jacob Riis's New York

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

Living for the City: Twentieth-Century Urban Lives, Nineteenth-Century Hinterland Histories, and the Creation of Usable Pasts

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

Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans: Complex Patchworks in American Cities

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