September 6 What Is Urban History?

• Mohl, 5-7
• Schnore

September 8 What Is A City?

September 11 Research Projects and Sources: Area Research Center

• Conzen

September 13 same

September 15 same

September 18 The Urbanization Process

• Mohl, 139-93

September 20 The City In History

• Abbott, 145-8
• Handlin

September 22 An Urban Interpretation Of History

• Lampard

September 25 An Urban Typology

• Warner

September 27 Models Of Urban Development

• Hoover

September 29 American Urban Development

• Schlesinger

October 2 Characteristics of American Cities

• Hershberg

October 4 Urbanism and Anti-Urbanism

• Thernstrom

October 6 Urban Governance

October 9 Urban Politics

October 11 The Persisting Urban Crisis

October 13 Urban Reform Traditions

October 16 EXAMINATION

October 18 Colonial Outposts

• C&S, 1-26

October 20 Hotbeds of Sedition

• C&S 26-37

October 23 Cities in the New Nation

• C&S 38-46

October 25 Midcentury Urban Explosion

• C&S 46-80

October 27 Midcentury Urban Crisis

October 30 The Industrial City

• C&S 80-108

November 1 Suburbs: Industrial and Residential

• Mohl, 53-80

November 3 The Economic Matrix

November 6 People and Space

• C&S 109-150

November 8 People and Space (cont)

• Mohl, 7-52

November 10 Bosses and Machines

• C&S 151-173
• Mohl 83-107

November 13 The Age of Municipal Reform

• C&S 174-206
• Mohl, 108-140

November 17 EXAMINATION

November 20 The Rise of the Metropolis

• C&S 207-234

November 22 The Automobile Culture

• Mohl, 194-207

November 27 The First Modern Decade

• Abbott, 1-54

November 29 Cities in the Great Depression

• C&S, 234-259

December 1 Federal-City Partnership

December 4 The City Mobilized

• C&S, 260-293

December 6 The Crabgrass Frontier

• Abbott, 55-95

December 8 Cities in Turmoil, Again

December 11 The Rise of Megapolis

• C&S, 294-308

December 13 The Future of Urban Civilization

• Abbott, 96-144

December 15 EXAMINATION

There will be three hour examinations based upon the class lectures and readings. Each one will constitute 25 percent of the final grade. The remaining 25 percent will be provided by the research project. The required textbooks for the course are:

1. Howard P. Chudacoff and Judith E. Smith, The Evolution of American Urban Society
2. Raymond A. Mohl, The New City: Urban America in the Industrial Age, 1860-1920
3. Carl Abbott, Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present

1. Leo F. Schnore, "The City As A Social Organism"
2. Oscar Handlin, "The Modern City As A Field of Historical Study"
3. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., "The City In American Civilization"
4. Roy Lubove, "The Urbanization Process: An Approach to Historical Research"
5. Eric E. Lampard, "American Historians and the Study of Urbanization"
6. Dwight Hoover, "The Developing Patterns of American Urban History"
7. Stephen Thernstrom, "Reflections On The New Urban History"
8. Sam Bass Warner, "If All The World Were Philadelphia"
9. Theodore Hershberg, "The New Urban History: Toward An Interdisciplinary History of the City"
10. Kathleen Niels Conzen, "Approaches to Early Milwaukee Community History"