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From: Wendy Plotkin <U20566@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
List Editor: Wendy Plotkin <U20566@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
Editor's Subject: OAH '98 Roundtable on _Crabgrass Frontier_
Author's Subject: OAH '98 Roundtable on _Crabgrass Frontier_
Date Written: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 12:40:09 CST
Date Posted: Thu, 01 Apr 1998 13:40:09 -0500

Thanks to the efforts of Michael Ebner and several of the panelists, we
are happy to post a portion of the presentations being made as part of
the OAH '98 roundtable "Revisiting _The Crabgrass Frontier_."  The
session is devoted to discussion of Kenneth T. Jackson's _Crabgrass
Frontier: the Suburbanization of the United States_ (Oxford University
Press, 1985), considered by many to be one of the most important books
in U.S. urban history, and urban history in general.  This session,
held on the first day of the meeting, Thursday, from 3:30-5:30 p.m.,
includes:

  Moderator:
    Michael H. Ebner, Lake Forest College

  Panelists:
    Henry Binford, Northwestern U.
    Philip Ethington, U. of Southern California
    Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College, IL
    John R. Logan, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY-Albany

  Comment:
    Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia U.

The next three postings include the presentations of Ann Durkin Keating,
Philip Ethington, and John R. Logan.  We appreciate these scholars sharing
their thoughtful assessments of this landmark book with H-Urban.  We
welcome your own substantive comments on _Crabgrass Frontier_ as part
of this dialogue, whether in relation to its theoretical and empirical
contributions, or its use in the classroom.  Of particular interest is
its role in stimulating your own research, including a description of
that research, or the responses of your students to various sections of
the book.

H-Urban's editors would be especially interested in learning what
impact this important book has had on urban history outside the United
States.

Wendy Plotkin
H-Urban Co-Editor
 on behalf of the H-Urban Editors

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