Levittown gave white familiesallthe early draws, but so did most communities. All across America,exclusionary zoningkept blacks out of white neighborhoods, and where it didn’t, the white neighborhoods putrestrictive covenantsin the deeds to the same effect. Even in the absence of legal constrai...
"Give Me My Child Back": Evangelical Attitudes toward Public Education in Twentieth Century America The twentieth century saw the splintering of evangelical confidence in the project of public education. During the 1920s and 1930s, fundamentalists fought to keep evolution out of the classroom but ...
A look at most of the cities within Latin America reveals striking commonalities across countries, from Mexico down to Argentina: most cities have a well-defined area known as "El Centro" (The Center), anchored by a main plaza (Plaza Mayor), flanked by a church on one side and key build...
Some may not know it is the start of the world-famous Boston Marathon. Others may not know Hopkinton has been rated as one of thesafest places to live in Americaor has some of the state’s best schools. Final Thoughts If you wanted to do in-depth research into a property’s history,...
A look at most of the cities within Latin America reveals striking commonalities across countries, from Mexico down to Argentina: most cities have a well-defined area known as "El Centro" (The Center), anchored by a main plaza (Plaza Mayor), flanked by a church on one side and key build...
Just out last month is a collection of essays edited by two Princeton historians, Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer,Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past. An excellent contribution to public education (despite its too-twee title), the book’s premis...
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American commerce and finance generally. Lying in the midst of the vast urbancommunitystretching down theEastern Seaboard, Philadelphia is anintegralpart of the vibrant fabric of contemporary social and economic life as well as a tranquil oasis joining together the spirit ofAmerica, past and present...
A History of Teen Bedrooms in America, says the teen bedroom has long been a source of anxiety, “once parents realised that giving teens too much privacy led to new problems that hadn’t been considered in earlier eras”. When the teen bedroom became an important site for socialising, he ...
Social Science History 24.1 (2000) 33-73 The history of the city in twentieth-century Latin America can be seen as a long contest over the exercise of urban public space. While the nature of this space is often less physical than it is social and situational, the struggle between different...