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Modern American cities

Provides articles from the New York Times which, taken together, provide a survey of the growth of American cities over the past hundred years beginning with the Chicago Fire of 1871, and also touches on the great migration of African Americans to northern cities and on Jane Addams' Hull House.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 242 pages

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