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  • Illinois History

    A Reader

    by Illinois State Historical Society, Roger Biles, Lilia Fernandez, Paul Finkelman, Raymond E Hauser, Reginald Horsman, Suellen Hoy, Judson L. Jeffries, Lionel Kimbel Jr, Thomas E Pegram, Shirley Portwood, Robert D Sampson, Ronald E Shaw, Robert M Sutton ...
    Series series Common Threads
    A renaissance in Illinois history scholarship has sparked renewed interest in the Prairie State's storied past. Students, meanwhile, continue to pursue coursework in Illinois history to fulfill degree requirements and for their own edification.This Common Threads collection offers important articles from the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Organized as an approachable survey of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Making of Urban America

    by Eric Avila, Timothy M. Collins, Daniel Czitrom, Leslie M. Harris, Arnold R. Hirsch, Michael B. Katz, Randall M. Miller, Edward K. Muller, Gary B. Nash, Mary E. Odem, Kathy Peiss, Madelon Powers, Joel A. Tan, Dominic A. Pacyga, Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • A Good Place to Do Business

    The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945

    by Roger Biles, Mark H. Rose ...
    Series series Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
    The “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh’s Renaissance’s apparent success quickly became a model for several struggling ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The South and the New Deal

    by Roger Biles ...
    Series series New Perspectives on the South
    When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region's economy was the weakest, its educational level the lowest, its politics the most rigid, and its laws and social mores the most racially slanted. Moreover, the region was prostrate from the effects of the Great Depression.Roosevelt's New Deal effected significant ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • From Tenements to the Taylor Homes

    In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

    Edited by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, Kristin M. Szylvian ...
    Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine such topics as the war against the slums, planned suburbs for workers, the rise of government ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Mayor Harold Washington

    Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago

    by Roger Biles ...
    Raised in a political family on Chicago's South Side, Harold Washington made history as the city's first African American mayor. His 1983 electoral triumph, fueled by overwhelming black support, represented victory over the Chicago Machine and business as usual. Yet the racially charged campaign heralded an era of bitter political divisiveness that obstructed his efforts to change city government. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Ever-Changing American City

    1945–Present

    by John F. Bauman, Roger Biles, Kristin M. Szylvian ...
    The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and rebirth. Nor is it a straightforward account of the struggle between the old urban core or central business district and the suburbs on the urban ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

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  • White Flight

    Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

    by Kevin M. Kruse ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Groundwork

    Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Genna Rae McNeil, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. ...
    "A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the ForewordCharles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American law and society. A brilliant lawyer and educator, he laid much of the legal foundation for the landmark civil ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Age of Betrayal

    by Jack Beatty ...
    Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Highest Glass Ceiling

    Women’s Quest for the American Presidency

    by Ellen Fitzpatrick ...
    In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each challenged persistent barriers confronted by women presidential candidates. Their quest illuminates today’s political landscape, showing that Hillary ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    by Colin Woodard ...
    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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