Books.

General Histories. Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1999). Howard Chudacoff, The Evolution of American Urban Society, rev. ed. (1981). Robert M. Fogelson, Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 (2001). Charles N. Glaab and Andrew T. Brown, A History of Urban America (1967). Constance M. Green, The Rise of Urban America (1965). Blake Mc-Kelvey, The Urbanization of America (1963). Lewis Mumford, The Culture of the Cities (1938). Eric Sandweiss, St. Louis: The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape (2001). Arthur M. Schlesinger, The Rise of the City, 1878--1898 (1933). Jon C. Teaford, City and Suburb: The Political Fragmentation of Urban America (1979); The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality (1986). Sam Bass Warner, Jr., The Urban Wilderness (1972); Streetcar Suburbs (1962).

Mobility and Race. Myra B. Young Armstead, "Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August": African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930. (1999). Howard Chudacoff, Mobile Americans: Residential and Social Mobility in Omaha, 1880--1920 (1972). Michael Frisch, Town into City (1972). Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen, Natives and Newcomers (1977). Matthew Pratt Guterl, The Color of Race in America 1900-1940 (2001). Gerald D. Jaynes, Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862--1882 (1986). Philip Kasinitz, Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race (1992). David M. Katzman, Before the Ghetto (1966). Kenneth L. Kusmer, A Ghetto Takes Shape (1976). Roger Lane, The Roots of Black Violence in Philadelphia, 1860--1900 (1986). John T. McGreevy, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North (1996). Jacqueline M. Moore, Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920 (1999). Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto (1966). Richard Sennett, Families Against the City (1970). Allan H. Spear, Black Chicago (1967). Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1600-2000 (1998). Stephan Thernstrom, Poverty and Progress (1964); The Other Bostonians (1973). Stephan Thernstrom and Richard Sennett, eds., Nineteenth Century Cities (1969). Lillian Serece Williams, Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940 (1999). Olivier Zunz, The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880--1920 (1982).

Immigration. Thomas J. Archdeacon, Becoming American: An Ethnic History (1983). Josef Barton, Peasants and Strangers: Italians, Rumanians, and Slovaks in an American City (1975). John Bodnar, Immigration and Industrialization (1977); The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in America (1985). John W. Briggs, An Italian Passage (1978). Jack Chen, The Chinese of America (1980). Yong Chen, Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community (2000). Robert D. Cross, The Church and the City (1967). Hasia R. Diner, Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America (2000). Leonard Dinnerstein and David Reimers, Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration and Assimilation (1975). John B. Duff, The Irish in the United States (1971). Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower East Side, 1890--1925 (1985). Nancy Foner, ed., Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York (2001). Lawrence H. Fuchs, The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture (1990). Mario T. Garcia, Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880--1920 (1981). Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot (1963). Susan A. Glenn, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (1990). Milton M. Gordon, Assimilation in American Life (1964). Victor Greene, For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethic Consciousness in America (1975). Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted, rev. ed. (1973). Marcus Hansen, The Immigrant in American History (1940). John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1955); Send These To Me: Jews and Other Immigrants in Urban America (1975). John Higham, ed., Ethnic Leadership in America (1978). Bill Ong Hing, Making and Remaking Asian America through Immigration Policy (1993). Francis L. K. Hsu, The Challenge of the American Dream: The Chinese in the United States (1971). Maldwyn A. Jones, American Immigration (1960). Edward R. Kantowicz, Polish-American Politics in Chicago (1975). Thomas Kessner, The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility (1977). Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (2000). Harry Kitano, Japanese-Americans: The Evolution of a Subculture (1969). Hadassa Kosak, Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905 (2000). Alan M. Kraut, The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880--1921 (1982); Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (1994). Stefano Luconi, From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia (2001). Matt S. Maier and Feliciano Rivera, The Chicanos: A History of Mexican-Americans (1972). Gwendolyn Mink, Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875--1920 (1986). Ewa Morawska, For Bread and Butter: The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890--1940 (1985). Stanley Nadel, Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845--1880 (1990). Humbert S. Nelli, The Italians of Chicago (1970). Orm Øverland, Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930 (2000). George Anthony Peffer, If They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion (1999). Moses Rischin, The Promised City: New York's Jews (1962). Lucy E. Salyer, Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law (1995). Barbara Solomon, Ancestors and Immigrants (1965). Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America (1981). Philip Taylor, The Distant Magnet: European Emigration to the U.S.A. (1971). David Ward, Cities and Immigrants (1965). Xinyang Wang, Surviving the City: The Chinese Immigrant Experience in New York City, 1890-1970 (2001). Irma Watkins-Owens, Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930 (1996). Mark Wyman, Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1900 (1993). Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880--1930 (1977). Henry Yu, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (2001).

Urban Poverty and Reform. John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin Szylvian, ed., From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America (2000). Robert H. Bremner, From the Depths (1956). Stephan F. Brumberg, Going to America, Going to School (1986). James H. Cassedy, Charles V. Chapin and the Public Health Movement (1962). Matthew A. Crenson, Building the Invisible Orphanage: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System (1998). Allen F. Davis, Spearheads for Reform (1967). Jared N. Day, Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Urban Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890-1943 (1999). Charles David Jacobson, Ties that Bind: Economic and Political Dilemmas of Urban Utility Networks, 1800-1990 (2000). Marvin Lazerson, Origins of the Urban School (1971). James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty (1981). Thomas L. Philpott, The Slum and the Ghetto (1978). James F. Richardson, The New York Police (1970). Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890); Children of the Poor (1892); The Battle with the Slum (1902). Barbara Gutmann Rosencrantz, Public Health and the State (1972). Selwyn K. Troen, The Public and the Schools (1975). David B. Tyack, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education (1974).

Urban Politics. John M. Allswang, Bosses, Machines and Urban Voters (1977). Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (2001). Douglas Bukowski, Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image (1998). Alexander B. Callow, The Tweed Ring (1966). James J. Connolly, The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925 (1998). Brian J. Cudahy, Cash, Tokens, and Transfers: A History of Urban Mass Transit in North America (1990). Lyle Dorsett, The Pendergast Machine (1968). Lori Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (1990). Roger Lane, Policing the City: Boston, 1822--1885 (1967). Seymour Mandelbaum, Boss Tweed's New York (1965). Christine M. Rosen, The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America (1986). John Sproat, The Best Men (1968). Zane L. Miller, Boss Cox's Cincinnati: Urban Politics in the Progressive Era (1968).

Social Thought and Urban Culture. Martha Banta, Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History (1987). Stuart Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760--1900 (1989). Gunther Barth, City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (1980); Instant Cities: Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver (1975). Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890--1940 (1986). Henry C. Binford, The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815--1860 (1985). Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820--1920 (1978). Marc Carnes, Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (1989). George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 (1995). Howard P. Chudacoff, The Age of the Bachelor: Creating an American Subculture (1999). Clifford E. Clark, The American Family Home, 1800--1960 (1986). Lawrence Cremin, The Transformation of the School (1961). Clark Davis, Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Cultures in Los Angeles, 1892-1941 (2000). Sarah Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000). Perry Duis, The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 (1983). Lewis A. Erenberg, Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture, 1890--1930 (1981). Charles B. Forcey, The Crossroads of Liberalism (1961). Timothy J. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790--1920 (1992). Eliot Gorn, The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America (1986). Harvey Green, Fit for America: Fitness, Sport, and American Society (1986). Allen Guttmann, A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports (1988). Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830--1870 (1982). Neil Harris, Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America (1990). Marilyn Wood Hill, Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 (1993). Daniel Horowitz, The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875--1940 (1985). Kenneth T. Jackson, The Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985). John F. Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (1978); Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America (1990). William Leach, True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society (1980); Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1993). T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (1981). T. J. Jackson Lears and Richard Wightman Fox, eds., The Culture of Consumption (1983). Godfrey M. Lebhar, Chain Stores in America (1962). Lawrence Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of a Cultural Hierarchy in America (1988). John A. Lucas and Ronald Smith, Saga of American Sport (1978). D. W. Marcell, Progress and Pragmatism (1974). Jay Martin, Harvests of Change (1967). Gerald W. McFarland, Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918 (2001). Martin V. Melosi, ed., Pollution and Reform in American Cities (1980). Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (1988). Frank Luther Mott, American Journalism, rev. ed. (1962). Donald R. Mrozek, Sport and American Mentality, 1880--1910 (1983). Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades (1931). David Nasaw, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements (1993); Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States (1979). James D. Norris, Advertising and the Transformation of American Society, 1865--1920 (1990). Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986). Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (1992). Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (1999). Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (1990). Robert W. Snyder, The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York (1989). Dale Somers, The Rise of Sports in New Orleans (1972). Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (2001). Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (1989). William R. Taylor, In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York (1992). Christopher Tunnard and H. H. Reed, American Skyline (1955). Alexander Von Hoffman, Local Attachments: The Making of an American Urban Neighborhood, 1850- 1920 (1994). Morton White, Social Thought in America (1949). Larzer Ziff, The American 1890s: Life and Times of a Lost Generation (1966).

Films.

Baseball (PBS Video, 1994). Coney Island (Direct Cinema, Ltd., 1991). The Great San Francisco Earthquake (PBS Video, American Experience, 1997). Journey to America (PBS Video, American Experience, 1988). Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America (PBS Video, 1994).

Internet Resources.

The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920. - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
The Chicago Architecture Imagebase - http://www.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory - http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/
New York, NY, Ellis Island: Immigration: 1900-1920 - http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html
Urban Planning, 1794-1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports - http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm