History of The Bronx - Further Reading

Further Reading

• Barrows, Edward, and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1999)
• Baver, Sherrie L. "Development of New York's Puerto Rican Community," Bronx County Historical Society Journal 1988 25(1): 1-9
• Briggs, Xavier de Souza, Anita Miller and John Shapiro. 1996. "CCRP in the South Bronx." Planners' Casebook, Winter.
• Federal Writers' Project. New York City Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to the Five Boroughs of the Metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond (1939) online edition
• Gonzalez, Evelyn. The Bronx. (Columbia University Press, 2004. 263 pp. 0–231-12114-8), scholarly history focused on the slums of the South Bronx online edition
• Goodman, Sam. "The Golden Ghetto: The Grand Concourse in the Twentieth Century," Bronx County Historical Society Journal 2004 41(1): 4-18 and 2005 42(2): 80-99
• Greene, Anthony C., “The Black Bronx: A Look at the Foundation of the Bronx’s Black Communities until 1900,” Bronx County Historical Society Journal, 44 (Spring–Fall 2007), 1–18.
• Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. The Encyclopedia of New York City, (Yale University Press and The New York Historical Society, (1995) ISBN 0-300-05536-6), has entries, maps, illustrations, statistics and bibliographic references on almost all of the significant topics in this article, from the entire borough to individual neighborhoods, people, events and artistic works.
• Jonnes, Jull. South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City (2002) online edition
• Olmsted, Robert A. "A History of Transportation in the Bronx," Bronx County Historical Society Journal 1989 26(2): 68-91
• Olmsted, Robert A. "Transportation Made the Bronx," Bronx County Historical Society Journal 1998 35(2): 166-180
• Purnell, Brian, “Desegregating the Jim Crow North: Racial Discrimination in the Postwar Bronx and the Fight to Integrate the Castle Hill Beach Club (1953–1973),” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 47–78.
• Purnell, Brian, and Oneka LaBennett, “The Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP) and Approaches to Scholarship about/for Black Communities,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (July 2009), 7–23.
• Rodríguez, Clara E. Puerto Ricans: Born in the U.S.A (1991) online edition
• Samtur, Stephen M. and Martin A. Jackson. The Bronx: Lost, Found, and Remembered, 1935–1975 (1999) online review, nostalgia
• Ultan, Lloyd. The Northern Borough: A History Of The Bronx (2009), popular general history
• Ultan, Lloyd. The Bronx in the frontier era: from the beginning to 1696 (1994)
• Ultan, Lloyd. The beautiful Bronx (1920–1950) (1979), heavily illustrated
• Ultan, Lloyd. The birth of the Bronx, 1609–1900 (2000), popular
• Ultan, Lloyd. The Bronx in the innocent years, 1890–1925 (1985), popular
• Ultan, Lloyd. The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday, "The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday 1935–1965 (1992), heavily illustrated popular history