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Boston 1945 - 2015

The Decline and Rebirth of a Great World City

by Russ Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Against all oddes Boston revived itself to become one of the leading centers of the global economy. This book captures how rogue politicians, passionate neighborhood activists, new immigrants, and old time residents fought each other over issues large and small and in the process, preserved and...
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Bittersweet Legacy

The Black and White 'Better Classes' in Charlotte, 1850-1910

by Janette Thomas Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and professional people--the 'better classes,' as they...
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Building the Skyline

The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers

by Jason M. Barr
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles...
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Ghosts of 42nd Street

A History of America's Most Infamous Block

by Anthony Bianco
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street. Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in theworld. No place has ever...
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Political Terrain

Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis

by Carl Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005

Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of "southern efficiency and northern charm." Kennedy's quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, Washington has been a community with multiple personalities. Located on the regional divide between...
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The Death and Life of Main Street

Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community

by Miles Orvell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions...
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Detective in the White City

The Real Story of Frank Geyer

by JD Crighton
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017

The remarkable true story of the uncompromising and relentless detective who investigated one of America's first serial killers, the man known as the 'Devil in the White City,' H. H. Holmes, and others like him. This extraordinary historical biography provides a chronological account of Frank...
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by Thomas Bender
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of...
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Holmes' Own Story

Confessed 27 Murders, Lied then Died (87 Historical Illustrations)

by JD Crighton, Herman Webster Mudgett, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016

A fascinating look into the mind of H. H. Holmes, one of America’s first serial killers known as the ‘Devil in the White City’ who built a Murder Castle and lured victims into secret rooms, vaults, and gas chambers during the Chicago’s World’s Fair. Featuring 87 rare, historical illustrations...
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by Joseph Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008

On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells,...
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Let It Burn

MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City

by Michael Boyette, Randi Boyette
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013

On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant. In a command post across the street from the...
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Sounds of Reform

Progressivism and Music in Chicago, 1873-1935

by Derek Vaillant
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004

Between 1873 and 1935, reformers in Chicago used the power of music to unify the diverse peoples of the metropolis. These musical progressives emphasized the capacity of music to transcend differences among various groups. Sounds of Reform looks at the history of efforts to propagate this vision and...
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by Patricia Farrell Donahue
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017

Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in modern American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia—one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans....
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Christianity and Culture in the City

A Postcolonial Approach

by Peter Savastano, Edgar Rivera, Nicolas Dumit Estevez
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012

Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences,...
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