Published Works

--- BOOKS ---
Alter, Jonathan, The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2006
Blumberg, Barbara, The New Deal and the Unemployed: The View from New York City, New York, Associated University Press, 1979
Schierup, Carl-Ulrik, Peo Hansen, Stephen Castles, Migration, Citizenship, and the European Welfare State: A European Dilemma, New York, Oxford University Press, 2006
Wilder, Craig Steven, A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, New York, 2000
Roediger, David R., Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs, New York, Basic Books, 2005
Cohen, Lizabeth, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939, Cambridge University Press, 1991
Cannistraro, Philip and Gerald Meyer (eds.), The Lost World of Italian-American Radicalism, Westport, CT, Praeger, 2003
Greenberg, Cheryl, Or Does It Explode?: Black Harlem in the Great Depression, New York, Oxford University Press, 1997
Denning, Michael, Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century, New York, Verso, 1996
Ward, David and Oliver Zunz, The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
Plunz, Richard, A History of Housing in New York City, New York, Columbia University Press, 1990
Jackson, Anthony, A Place Called Home: A History of Low-Cost Housing in Manhattan, Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1976
Brodsky, Alyn, The Great Mayor: Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of the City of New York, New York, Truman Talley Books, 2003
Gelfand, Mark, A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urban America, 1933-1965, New York, Oxford University Press, 1975
Gwendolyn Wright, Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America
Alyn Brodsky, The Great Mayor: Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of the City of New York
Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Joshua B. Freeman, Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II
Jared N. Day, Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890-1943
Woody Klein, Let in the sun
Eric C. Schneider, Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings: Youth Gangs in Postwar New York
Russell Leigh Sharman, The Tenants of East Harlem
Anthony LaRuffa, Monte Carmelo: An Italian-America​n Community in the Bronx
Jim Sleeper, Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York
Michael C. Johanek, John L. Puckett, Leonard Covello and the Making of Benjamin Franklin High School: Education As If Citizenship Mattered

--- ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ONLINE RESOURCES ---
Kessner, Thomas, New York and the New Deal - Session One: The Old New Deal
Wasserman, Suzanne, “'Our Alien Neighbors': Coping with the Depression on the Lower East Side," American Jewish History, June, 2000, 209-232
The Architecture and Development of New York City
Schwartz , Joel, "Tenement Renewal in New York City in the 1930s: The District-Improvement Ideas of Arthur C. Holden," Journal of Planning History, Vol. 1, No. 4, 290-310 (2002)
Lower East Side Museum, The Great Depression of the 1930s