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Histories of United States Cities I (nonfiction)
201.
Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
by:
Michael Patrick MacDonald
3.78 avg rating β 947 ratings
201.
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
by:
Mike Wallace
4.34 avg rating β 361 ratings
203.
Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
by:
Billy Sothern
3.91 avg rating β 129 ratings
203.
Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans
by:
Nathalie Dessens
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings
205.
When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder
by:
Steve Fischer
3.42 avg rating β 935 ratings
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Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
by:
Patrick Sharkey
3.86 avg rating β 492 ratings
207.
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
by:
Edwin G. Burrows
4.30 avg rating β 2,773 ratings
208.
Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City
by:
Jeanette Keith
3.73 avg rating β 214 ratings
209.
The Haymarket Affair: The History of the Riots in Chicago that Galvanized the Labor Movement
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Charles River Editors
3.57 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
by:
Walter Johnson
4.11 avg rating β 2,011 ratings
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
by:
Ryan Lugalia-Hollon
4.14 avg rating β 71 ratings
212.
Empire City: The Making And Meaning Of
by:
David M. Scobey
3.29 avg rating β 17 ratings
212.
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by:
Anna Clark
4.15 avg rating β 2,842 ratings
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That Old Black Magic: Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and the Golden Age of Las Vegas
by:
Tom Clavin
3.75 avg rating β 65 ratings
214.
Digging in the City of Brotherly Love: Stories from Philadelphia Archaeology
by:
Rebecca Yamin
4.10 avg rating β 20 ratings
216.
The Northside: African Americans and the Creation of Atlantic City
by:
Nelson Johnson
4.13 avg rating β 39 ratings
216.
Only in Savannah: Stories and Insights on Georgia's Mother City
by:
Tom Coffey
3.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
218.
Over P. J. Clarke's Bar: Tales from New York City's Famous Saloon
by:
Helen Marie Clarke
3.87 avg rating β 23 ratings
218.
Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld
by:
Scott M. Deitche
3.41 avg rating β 330 ratings
220.
Dirty Deeds: Land, Violence, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee
by:
Nancy J Taniguchi
3.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground
by:
Kevin Grace
4.21 avg rating β 29 ratings
222.
The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It
by:
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
3.71 avg rating β 199 ratings
222.
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
by:
John Strausbaugh
3.92 avg rating β 145 ratings
224.
Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans
by:
Dan Baum
4.22 avg rating β 5,190 ratings
224.
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300
by:
Jason Berry
3.66 avg rating β 90 ratings
226.
Voodoo and Power: The Politics of Religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940
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Kodi A. Roberts
3.88 avg rating β 34 ratings
226.
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White
by:
William Sturkey
4.17 avg rating β 151 ratings
228.
The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans
by:
Bruce E. Baker
3.75 avg rating β 8 ratings
228.
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built Americaβs First Subway
by:
Doug Most
3.66 avg rating β 1,665 ratings
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
by:
Les Standiford
3.86 avg rating β 861 ratings
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Tallahassee, A Capital City History (FL)
by:
Julianne Hare
3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
by:
Doug J. Swanson
3.90 avg rating β 810 ratings
232.
Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City
by:
Craig Havighurst
4.16 avg rating β 63 ratings
234.
Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself
by:
Philip L. Fradkin
3.65 avg rating β 97 ratings
234.
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771β1965
by:
Kelly Lytle HernΓ‘ndez
4.50 avg rating β 447 ratings
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Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound
by:
David M. Buerge
3.79 avg rating β 524 ratings
236.
This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
by:
Jon Mooallem
3.77 avg rating β 1,628 ratings
238.
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
by:
David Cowan
4.40 avg rating β 1,984 ratings
238.
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
by:
Wes Moore
4.11 avg rating β 1,806 ratings
240.
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by:
Steve Sheinkin
4.04 avg rating β 6,581 ratings
240.
Wicked Phenix City
by:
Faith Serafin
3.82 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society's Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
by:
Neil Miller
3.64 avg rating β 73 ratings
242.
Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
by:
J.L. Chestnut Jr.
4.16 avg rating β 88 ratings
244.
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
by:
Stephen Coss
3.73 avg rating β 782 ratings
244.
Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System
by:
John E. Morris
4.22 avg rating β 207 ratings
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A People's History of Chicago
by:
Kevin Coval
4.33 avg rating β 722 ratings
246.
The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
by:
Stephanie Meeks
3.95 avg rating β 137 ratings
248.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by:
William Cronon
4.26 avg rating β 3,510 ratings
248.
City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit
by:
Stefan Szymanski
3.77 avg rating β 81 ratings
250.
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
by:
Thomas Dyja
3.51 avg rating β 1,404 ratings
250.
Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
by:
Carl Smith
3.83 avg rating β 476 ratings
252.
New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century
by:
Jed Perl
3.93 avg rating β 162 ratings
252.
The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class, and Violence in a New South City
by:
Gregory Mixon
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
254.
Milwaukee Mayhem: Murder and Mystery in the Cream City's First Century
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Matthew J. Prigge
3.37 avg rating β 174 ratings
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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
by:
Craig Taylor
4.07 avg rating β 1,529 ratings
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Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit
by:
Scott M. Burnstein
3.62 avg rating β 125 ratings
256.
Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York
by:
Nan A. Rothschild
3.71 avg rating β 17 ratings
258.
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
by:
Donald L. Miller
4.07 avg rating β 1,696 ratings
258.
The Making of Milledgeville: The Pictorial History Of Baldwin County
by:
James Finney
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Black and White City: The History of Racism and Race Relations at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
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Charles River Editors
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
260.
Chattanooga
by:
Jerry R. Desmond
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
by:
Roben Farzad
3.81 avg rating β 916 ratings
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Asheville Beer: An Intoxicating History of Mountain Brewing
by:
Anne Fitten Glenn
4.13 avg rating β 31 ratings
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
by:
Shomari Wills
3.93 avg rating β 3,774 ratings
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Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC
by:
Kenneth J. Winkle
4.03 avg rating β 117 ratings
265.
Tampa Before the Civil War (Tampa Bay History Center Reference Library Series, No. 8)
by:
Canter Brown Jr.
3.88 avg rating β 8 ratings
267.
Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway: The Complete History
by:
Jacob R. Mecklenborg
4.04 avg rating β 54 ratings
267.
Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock
by:
Michael Ray Fitzgerald
3.83 avg rating β 46 ratings
269.
Changing Plans For America's Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth-Century Urbanism
by:
Zane L. Miller
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 6 ratings
269.
Presidio Santa MarΓa de Galve: A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
by:
Judith A. Bense
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
by:
Howie Carr
3.68 avg rating β 1,950 ratings
271.
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating β 1,042 ratings
273.
The Hub: Boston Past and Present
by:
Thomas H. O'Connor
3.46 avg rating β 54 ratings
273.
A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution
by:
Martin Padgett
4.16 avg rating β 167 ratings
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