The Human Tradition in Urban America

The Human Tradition in Urban America offers an intimate telling of America’s evolution into an urban nation through the experiences of individuals. This book considers the growth of American cities by carefully looking at the lives of those people, famous and ordinary, who contributed to this important transition in the country’s history. Professor Roger Biles has assembled an expert group of scholars who have provided a diverse collage of colorful and engaging characters to this volume. The Human Tradition in Urban America covers the eighteenth through twentieth centuries and is well balanced with respect to race, region, and gender. This collection of biographies shows that the formation of America’s new structure and environment was not simply the product of some mysterious blend of impersonal forces, but instead was the handiwork of a rich variety of human actors.