Mayor Harold Washington

By Roger Biles

From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

By John F. Bauman

From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America

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The fate of cities

By Roger Biles

This impressive treatise provides a telling critique of how in the long run the government turned a blind eye to the fate of the cities. No other work offers such a useful narrative of presidential...

The South And the New Deal New Perspectives on the South

By Roger Biles

The President and American Capitalism since 1945

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The South and the New Deal

By Roger Biles

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, a...

The human tradition in urban America

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The human tradition in urban America

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A new deal for the American people

By Roger Biles