Professor Emeritus

Research and Teaching Fields: Urban America, immigration history, Florida, American historiography

Education:

• B.A., Hamilton College, 1961
• M.A.T., Yale, 1962
• M.A., New York University, 1965
• Ph.D., New York University, 1967

UAB Service, 1970-1981

• 1996-2002: Chair, History Department
• 2002-2015: University Scholar in History

Select Publications

• Poverty in New York, 1783-1825. Oxford University Press, 1971.
• Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling. With Ronald D. Coke. Kennikat, 1978.
• Searching for the Sunbelt. University of Georgia Press, 1993.
• The New City: Urban America in the Industrial Age, 1860-1920. Harlan Davidson, 1994.
• “Stop the Road: Freeway Revolts in Postwar American Cities,” Journal of Urban History. 2004.
• South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami. University Press of Florida, 2005.
• Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy Since 1939. With Mark Rose. University of Tennessee Press, 2012.

Select Grants, Fellowships, and Other Sholarly Endeavors

• Editor, Journal of Urban History, 1973-1977 (Founding Editor).
• Senior Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, Tel Aviv University, 1978.
• Senior Fulbright, University of Western Australia, 1983.

Select Honors

• Dorothy Dodd Life-Time Achievement Award of the Florida Historical Society, 2013
• Frederick W. Prize in the History of Ideas, 2001
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Phi Alpha Theta

*Deceased