“Is their such a thing as Philadelphia exceptionalism?” asked one observer at this year’s UHA. Undoubtedly, over the […]
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Welcome to the 2012 Urban History Conference. Hurricane Sandy loomed over the event like depression in a Tim […]
In the last week Chicago’s teacher strike has galvanized debate nationwide about schools, labor, and the so-called “education […]
July, 1956. It had been over a decade since the Carnegie Foundation solicited Gunnar Myrdal’s opinion on American […]
We at ToM have started a yearly tradition of looking back at the works that most shaped our […]
Our Alex Sayf Cummings has a new piece up at Salon looking at the epic 1972 electoral battle between […]
Our friend Kevin Baker recently wondered aloud whether 2012 would be the Year that Tropics Broke, after seeing […]
When President Obama decided to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan many people who supported this decision argued […]