Jackson, Mandi Isaacs.
Model city blues urban space and organized resistance in New Haven
. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.
This book is a great resource for looking at New Haven's neighborhoods and history. Jackson does a great job of connecting Lee's policies and legacy to the modern day. While students will struggle with the text, selections may be appropriate to use in the classroom. The fact that many of writings are neighborhood based may help motivate students to work through their struggles to learn more.
Lassonde, Stephen.
Learning to forget schooling and family life in New Haven's working class, 1870-1940
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.
This book is very useful for a couple of different reasons. Students may enjoy sections of it because it focuses around the life and times of students, a perspective not often found in textbooks. The book also provides a rich diversity of primary sources. Chapters and tables from this book would be a great classroom resource to use with students and test their evaluative skills.
Perks, Robert, and Alistair Thomson.
The oral history reader
. London: Routledge, 1998.
This book can serve as guide and a resource for the challenges and benefits of oral history. There are several different chapters that discuss the challenges of oral history. While very few of the chapters will be appropriate for use in class, this book serves as a resource for the teacher. This book contains useful tips for interview questions, release forms, and techniques. A good and selective use of this book can help your class complete this unit successfully.
Rae, Douglas W..
City: urbanism and its end
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
This book contains a lot of information about New Haven's History and struggles over the past hundred years. In previous sections of this book, Rae's work has shown its usefulness. Rae does a good job of showing change in New Haven and providing evidence and accounts of that change. Chapters of this book can be read in your class and the chapters about Richard Lee can provide an excellent base for understanding New Haven's recent history.
Riccio, Anthony V..
The Italian American experience in New Haven
. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Riccio's work provides an excellent look at how one group has changed New Haven and been impacted by the New Haven experience. Many different resources in this book can be used in the classroom with students. Using the book, or parts of it, before visiting Wooster Square or the New Haven M
useum, can provide an excellent study looking at neighborhoods and groups. Its use is definitely recommended.
Riis, Jacob A..
How the other half lives; studies among the tenements of New York.
. New York: Sagamore Press, 1957.
Riis's work is seminal in understanding urban environments and immigration. This photo essay and its text provide wonderful insight into how immigrant and urban populations lived in the late 19
th
Century. While the text holds many of the prejudices and ideas of its time, there is still a tremendous amount of value that students can pull from this text. The photos will allow students of all levels to access the information along with possibly serving as a case study for analyzing neighborhoods.