Required texts
You are required to buy the core text and arrange to have access to the remaining texts during the course of the quarter. Click on the titles to learn more about them.
Core Text: The Evolution of American Urban Society, 6th Edition
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Additional Books:
Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth Century America
The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790-1830
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
OR
The New African American Urban History
How Women Saved the City
OR
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
AUP Reserve
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American Urban History
Brief Description
The course is designed as an intensive graduate level seminar in American Urban History. Its purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to immerse in historical scholarship that addresses the social, political, technological and cultural forces that shaped the development of American cities. As a seminar the course emphasizes readings and discussions as the primary mode of learning. To promote engagement with the course and its content, students will be actively involved by taking turns as presenters and discussion leaders.
Syllabus and Schedule
Important Links
H-Urban
Join H-Urban, a forum for discussion and dissemination of scholarship on urban history and urban studies.
Shared Space
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Feedback Area
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Sample Student Work