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Selected Readings on Dallas and Fort Worth
WEBSITES
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BOOKS
DALLAS
Acheson, Sam. Dallas Yesterday. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1977.
Black, William Neil. "Empire of Consensus: City Planning, Zoning, and Annexation in Dallas, 1900-1960. Ph. D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1982.
Carney, Carolyn. "The City of Hate: Conservative and Anti-Communist Attitudes in Dallas, Texas, 1950-1964." (M.A. Thesis, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, 1994).
Carraro. Francine. Jerry Bywaters: A Life in Art.. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Dallas Institute for the Humanities and Culture, Imagining Dallas. Dallas Institute, 1982.
Enstam, Elizabeth York, Women and the Creation of Urban Life. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Fairbanks, Robert B. For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics and the Public Interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.
Govenor, Alan B. and Jay F. Brakefield. Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1998.
Hazel, Michael V. Dallas Reconsidered: Essays in Local History. Dallas: Three Forks Press, 1995.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. Dallas: The Making of a Modern City. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Hill, Patricia Evridge. "Origins of Modern Dallas." Ph. D. dissertation, University of Texas at Dallas, 1990.
Holmes, Maxine and Saxon, Gerald, eds., The WPA Dallas Guide and History. Denton, Texas: Dallas Public Library, Texas Center for the Book, University of North Texas Press, 1992.
Howard, James. Big D is for Dallas: Chapters in 20thh Century History of Dallas. Austin, Texas: University Cooperative Society, 1957.
Leslie, Warren. Dallas Public and Private: Aspects of an American City. New York: Grossman, 1964.
Linden, Glenn M. Desegregating Schools in Dallas: Four Decades in the Federal Courts. Dallas: Three Forks Press. 1995.
McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur. Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas College Station: Texas A & M University, 1998.
Minutaglio, Bill and Holly Williams. The Hidden City: Oak Cliff, Texas. Dallas: Elmwood Press and the Oak Cliff Conservation League, 1990.
Payne, Darwin, Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity in the Twentieth Century. Dallas, Three Forks Press, 1994.
Payne, Darwin and Kathy Fitzpatrick. From Prairie to Planes: How Dallas and Fort Worth Overcame Politics and Personalities to Build One of the World’s Biggest and Busiest Airports. Dallas: Three Forks Press, 1999.
Payne, Darwin, ed., Sketches of a Growing Town: Episodes and People of Dallas from Early Days to Recent Times. Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 1991.
Ragsdale, Kenneth B. The Year America Discovered Texas: Centennial 36. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988.
Shulman, Laurie, The Meyerson Symphony Center: Building a Dream. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2000.
Schutze, Jim. The Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City. Secaucus, N.J.; Citadel Press, 1986.
Sharp, Ernest. G. B. Dealey of the Dallas Morning News. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1955.
Thometz, Carol Estes. The Decision Makers: The Power Structure of Dallas. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963.
Wilson, William H. Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Wright, Lawrence. In the New World: Growing Up With America, 1960-1984. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
FORT WORTH
Barksdale, E.C. The Genesis of the Aviation Industry in North Texas. Austin: Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas, 1958.
Buenger, Victoria and Walter L. Buenger. Texas Merchant: Marvin Leonard and Fort Worth. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Cohen, Judith Singer. Cowtown Moderne: Art Deco Architecture of Fort Worth, Texas. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988.
Garrett, Julia K. Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph. Austin: Encino Press, 1972.
Hooks, Michael Q. "The Struggle for Dominance: Urban Rivalry in North Texas, 1870-1910." Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, 1979.
Pate, J’Nell L. Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887-1987. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988.
Pate, J’Nell L. North of the River: A Brief History of North Fort Worth. Texas Christian University Press, 1994.
Roark, Carol. Fort Worth’s Legendary Landmarks. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1995.
Selcer, Richard F. Hell’s Half Acre: The Life and Legend in a Red-Light District. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1991.
Talbert, Robert H. Cowtown-Metropolis: Case Study of a City’s Growth and Structure. Fort Worth, Texas: Leo Potishman Foundation, 1956.
SUBURBS AND EXURBS
Ladino, Robyn Duff. Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shrivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.
Saxon, Gerald D. Transitions: A Centennial History Of The University Of Texas At Arlington, 1895-1995. Arlington: The UTA Press, 1995.
GENERAL, SOUTHWEST AND URBAN SUNBELT
Abbot, Carl. The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern West. Tuscon: Univ. of Arizona Press 1993.
-------,-----. The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1981.
-------, ----. Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present. Arlington, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1987
Bernard, Richard M. and Rice, Bradley R., eds. Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth Since World War II. Austin, TX: Univ. of Texas Press, 1983.
Bridges, Amy. Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Fairbanks, Robert B. and Underwood, Kathleen, eds. Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America. College Station, TX: Texas A & M Univ. Press, 1990.
Findlay, John M. Magic Lands. Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 .Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 1992.
Miller, Char, and Sanders, Heywood, eds. Urban Texas. College Station, TX: Texas A & M Univ. Press, 1990.
Mohl, Raymond A., ed. Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspectives on a Region. Knoxville, TN: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1990.
Nash, Gerald D. World War II and the West: Reshaping the Economy. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, 1990.
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
DALLAS
A number of articles can be found in Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas and Heritage News. Also see the following.
Biles, Roger, "The New Deal in Dallas." Southwestern Historical Quarterly XCV (July 1991):1-19.
Davidson, Rondel V. "Victor Considerant and the Failure of La Reunion."Southwestern Historical Quarterly LXXVI (January 1973): 277-96.
Dulaney, W. Marvin. "The Progressive Voters League: A Political Voice for African Americans in Dallas." Legacies 3(Spring 1991):27-35.
Elkin, Stephen L. "State and Market in City Politics: Or, The ‘Real Dallas’" in The Politics of Urban Development. Edited by Clarence Stone and Heywood Sanders. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987, pp. 25-51.
Enstram, Elizabeth Y. "The Forgotten Frontier: Dallas Women and Social Caring, 1895-1920." Legacies 1( Spring 1989): 20-28.
_______, ______. "The Frontier Woman as City Workers: Women’s Occupations in Dallas, Texas, 1856-1880." East Texas Historical Journal XVIII (Spring 1980): 12-28.
Fairbanks, Robert B., "Dallas in the 1940s: The Challenges and Opportunities of Defense Mobilization," in Urban Texas, Edited by Car Miller and Heywood Sanders. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press, 1990.
_________,_______. "From Consensus to Controversy: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing in Dallas." Legacies 1 (Fall 1989): 37-43.
_________, _______. "The Good Government Machine: The Citizens Charter Association and Dallas Politics, 1930-1960," in Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America. Edited by Robert B. Fairbanks and Kathleen Underwood. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990, pp. 125-150.
_________, _______."Metropolitan Planning and Downtown Redevelopment: The Cincinnati and Dallas Experiences, 1940-1960."Planning Perspectives 2 (1987): 237-253.
_________, _______. "Planning, Public Works, and Politics: The Trinity River Reclamation Project in Dallas," in Planning the Twentieth Century American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996.
________, _______. "Responding to the Airplane: Urban Rivalry, Metropolitan Regionalism, and Airport Development in Dallas, 1927-1965," in Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1880s. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1996.
________, ________."Rethinking Urban Problems: Planning, Zoning, and City Government in Dallas, 1900-1930." Journal of Urban History 25 (September 1999):809-837.
Hazel, Michael V. "The Critic Club: Sixty Years of Quiet Leadership." Legacies 2 (Fall 1990): 9-17.
Hooks, Michael Q., "The Role of Promoters in Urban Rivalry: The Dallas-Fort Worth Experience, 1870-1910," Red River Historical Review 7 (1982), 4-16
Jackson, Kenneth T. "Dallas: Dynamo of the Southwest." in The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 by Kenneth T. Jackson, New York: Oxford University Press, 1967, pp. 66-80.
McElhaney, Jackie,. "Navigating the Trinity." Legacies 3(Spring 1991): 4- 13.
Smith, Thomas H. "Conflict and Corruption: The Dallas Establishment vs. the Freedmen’s Bureau Agent." Legacies 1(Fall 1989): 24-30.
Wilson, William H. "Adapting to Growth: Dallas Texas and the Kessler Plan." Arizona and the West 25 (August 1983): 245-260.
______, _________. "Desegregation of the Hamilton Park School, 1955-1975." Southwestern Historical Quarterly XCV (July 1991):42-63.
______, __________. "Merely Unpractical Dreams: Removing the Texas & Pacific Tracks from Pacific Avenue." Legacies 2(Fall 1990): 26-34.
______, _________."The Survival of the City Beautiful Technique in Dallas." in The City Beautiful Movement . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. pp. 254- 278.
FORT WORTH
Caldwell, Edwin L. "Highlights of the Development of Manufacturing in Texas, 1900-1960. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 68 (April 1965): 405-31.
Hooks, Michael Q., "The Role of Promoters in Urban Rivalry: The Dallas-Fort Worth Experience, 1870-1910," Red River Historical Review 7 (1982), 4-16
Myres, Sandra Lynn, "Fort Worth, 1870-1900." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 72 (Oct. 1968): 200-210.
Spain, August O. "Fort Worth: Great Expectations--Cowtown Hares and Tortoises." in Urban Politics in the Southwest. Edited by Leonard E. Goodall. Tempe: Institute of Public Administration, Arizona State University, 1967.