Journal of Urban History (JUH), peer-reviewed and published bi-monthly, provides scholars and professionals with the latest research, analyses, and discussion on the history of cities and urban societies throughout the world. JUH presents original research by distinguished authors from the variety of fields concerned with urban history. Each insightful issue offers the latest scholarship on such topics as public housing, migration, urban growth, and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Special Section Introduction
African American Urban Electoral Politics in the Age of Jim Crow Lisa G. Materson and Joe William Trotter, Jr.
Special Section Articles
“This Independent Fight We Are Making Is Local”: The Election of 1920 and Electoral Politics in Black Baltimore Dennis A. Doster
“The Crusade Is Now Begun in Philadelphia”: Municipal Reformers, Southern Moderates, and African American Politics Julie Davidow
No Longer Pliant Tools: Urban Politics and Conflicts over African American Partisanship in 1880s Boston, Massachusetts Millington Bergeson-Lockwood
“The Servant Campaigns”: African American Women and the Politics of Economic Justice in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s Mary-Elizabeth Murphy
Articles
Photography and the Spatial Transformations of Ghent, 1840–1914 Steven Jacobs and Bruno Notteboom
Emplacing Risks in the City: Class, Politics, Risk, and the Built Environment of Women’s Residential Clubs, 1896–1917 Robin Bartram
“Crashing America’s Back Gate”: Illegal Europeans, Policing, and Welfare in Industrial Detroit, 1921–1939 Ashley Johnson Bavery
The Men Who Lived Underground: The Chicago Police Torture Cases and the Problem of Measuring Police Violence, 1970–2016 Andrew S. Baer
“Only the Most Morbid Among the Rich Will Find It Entertaining”: Interpreting 1930s Urban Homelessness in Museums Meighen S. Katz
Landscapes of Production: Filming Dubai and the Trucial States Todd Reisz
Review Essays
See Yourself: Toward Uncovering a New Boston That History Almost Forgot Karilyn Crockett
Cities as Republics in Early Modern Europe Christopher R. Friedrichs
Caught in the Cross-Fire: American Police and Social Conflicts Barry Latzer
New Histories of the Urban Soundscape James G. Mansell