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America On the Move

Reading List

For Teachers and ParentsGrades Pre-K - 3

Brown, Don. Alice Ramsey’s Grand Adventure. Boston: Houghton Mi�in, 1997.

Goodman, Steve. The Train They Call the City of New Orleans. New York: Putnam, 2003.

Maestro, Betsy. Coming to America: The Story of Immigration. New York: Scholastic, 1996.

O’Brien, Patrick. Steam, Smoke, and Steel: Back in Time with Trains. Watertown, Mass:Charlesbridge, 2000.

Priceman, Marjorie. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World. New York: Knopf, 1994.

Grades 3 - 5

Krensky, Stephen. The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps. New York: Delacorte, 1994.

Weitzman, David. Model T: How Henry Ford Built a Legend. New York: Crown, 2002.

Lawrence, Jacob. The Great Migration: An American Story. New York: HarperTrophy, 1995.

Grades 4 - 7

Durbin, William. The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker. New York: Scholastic, 1999.


Grabham, ed. Circling the Globe: A Young People’s Guide to Countries and Cultures of the World.

New York: King�sher, 1995.

Haskins, James, and Kathleen Benson. Out of the Darkness: The Story of Blacks Moving North, 1890-1940. New York: Benchmark Books, 2000.


Morgan, Sally. Homes and Cities: Living for the Future. New York: Franklin Watts, 1998.

Sandler, Martin W. Driving around the U.S.A.: Automobiles in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Sandler, Martin W. Riding the Rails in the U.S.A.: Trains in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Sinnott, Susan. Chinese Railroad Workers. New York: Franklin Watts, 1999. Weitzman, David. Locomotive: Building an Eight-Wheeler. Boston: Houghton Mi�in, 1999.

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Grades 4 - 8

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963. New York: Bantam, 1997. Goodman, Steve. The Train They Call the City of New Orleans. New York: Putnam, 2003.

Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. New York: Scholastic, 1999.


Quackenbush, Robert. Along Came the Model T! How Henry Ford Put the World on Wheels. New York: Parents’ Magazine Press, 1978.

Grades 6 - 9

Press, Petra. A Multicultural Portrait of Immigration. New York: Benchmark Books, 1996.

Ryan, Pam Muñoz. Esperanza Rising. New York: Scholastic, 2000.

Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Mariner Books, 2001.

Bode, Janet. New Kids on the Block: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens. New York: Franklin Watts, 1989. 7 UP



Grades 9 - Adult

Transportation in America before 1876

Anderson, Patricia. The Course of Empire: The Erie Canal and the New York Landscape, 1825-1875. Rochester, N.Y.: Memorial Art Gallery of University of Rochester, 1984.

Bain, David Haward. Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Viking, 1999.

Davidson, Janet F., and Michael S. Sweeney. On the Move: Transportation and the American Story. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Press, 2003.

Howard, Thomas Frederick. Sierra Crossing: First Roads to California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1949.

Labaree, Benjamin W., et al. America and the Sea: A Maritime History. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport, 1998.

Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

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Transportation in America before 1876 cont.

Shaw, Ronald E. Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790-1860. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

Shaw, Ronald E. Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966.

Stover, John F. American Railroads. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Taylor, George Rogers. The Transportation Revolution 1815-1860. New York: Rinehart, 1951.

Withuhn, William L., ed. Rails across America: A History of Railroads in North America. New York: Smithmark, 1993.

Withuhn, William L. The Spirit of Steam. New York: Smithmark, 1995.

Community Dreams: Santa Cruz, California, 1876

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr., ed. The Railroads: The Nation’s First Big Business. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965.

Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business.

Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.

Davidson, Janet F., and Michael S. Sweeney. On the Move: Transportation and the American Story. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2003.

Deverell, William. Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Gilbert, M. E. Santa Cruz County: Faithful Reproduction in Print and Photography of Its Climate Capabilities, and Beauties. San Francisco: H. S. Crocker, 1896. Hamman, Rick. California Coast Railways. Boulder, Colo.: Pruett, 1980.

Harrison, E. S. History of Santa Cruz County, California. San Francisco: Paci�c Press, 1892.

Licht, Walter. Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Lydon, Sandy. Chinese Gold: The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region. Capitola, Cal.: Capitola Book Company, 1985.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987.

Stromquist, Shelton. A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Con�ict in Nineteenth-Century America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.


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Delivering the Goods: Watsonville, California 1895

Chang, Sucheng. This Bitter-Sweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Clark, Edgar L. Watsonville Images, 1888-1940, captions and text by Betty Lewis. Watsonville, Cal: Pajaro Valley Historical Association, 1995.

Danbom, David B. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Daniel, Cletus. Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.


Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers’ Frontier, 1865-1900. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1966.

Gilbert, M. E. Santa Cruz County: Faithful Reproduction in Print and Photography of Its Climate Capabilities, and Beauties. San Francisco: H. S. Crocker, 1896.

Hsu, Madeline Y. Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Lydon, Sandy. Chinese Gold: The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region. Capitola, Cal.: Capitola Book Company, 1985.

McWilliams, Carey. Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California. Santa Barbara: Peregrine, 1971.

Stoll, Steven. The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Takaki, Ronald. A Di�erent Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Di�erent Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.

A Streetcar City: Washington, DC, 1900


Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

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A Streetcar City: Washington, DC, 1900 cont.

Girouard, Mark. Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1985.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Lampl, Elizabeth Jo, and Kimberly Prothro Williams. Chevy Chase: A Home Suburb for the Nation’s Capital. Crownsville, Md.: Montgomery County Historic Preservation Commission, 1998.

Marsh, Margaret. Suburban Lives. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Miller, John Anderson. Fares, Please! From Horse-Cars to Streamliners. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1941.

Nye, David. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992.

Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Reps, John W. Washington on View: The Nation’s Capital since 1790. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Smith, Kathryn Schneider, ed. Washington at Home: An Illustrated History of Neighborhoods in the Nation’s Capital. North Ridge, Cal.: Windsor Publications, 1988.

Teaford, Jon C. The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

People on the Move

Berry, Chad. Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Calavita, Kitty. Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the I.N.S. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth. Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C. 1910-1940. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Daniels, Roger. Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988.

Daniels, Roger, and Otis Graham. Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Little�eld, 2001.

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Gamio, Manuel. Mexican Immigration to the United States: A Study of Human Migration and Adjustment. New York: Dover, 1971.

Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Lai, Him Mark, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung. Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.

Martinez, Ruben. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. New York: Henry Holt, 2001. McElvaine, Robert S. The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Ramirez, Bruno. Crossing the 49th Parallel: Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001.

Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Takaki, Ronald. A Di�erent Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.

Uys, Errol Lincoln. Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move during the Great Depression. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Valdes, Dennis. Al Norte: Agricultural Workers in the Great Lakes Region, 1917–1970. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.

Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, and Marjorie Lightman. Ellis Island and the Peopling of America. New York: New Press, 1997.

The Connected City: New York, New York, 1920s

Bailey, Vernon Howe. Magical City: Intimate Sketches of New York. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935.

Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Bonner, William T. New York: The World’s Metropolis. New York: R. L. Polk, 1924. Braynard, Frank O. “The World's Greatest Ship”: The Story of the Leviathan, vols. 1-6. New York: South Street Seaport Museum, 1972-83.

Burns, Ric, and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History. New York: Knopf, 1999.

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People on the Move cont.

The Connected City: New York, New York, 1920s cont.


Furer, Howard B. New York: A Chronological and Documentary History. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceania Publications, 1974.

Giovanni, Nikki, ed. Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Jackson, Kenneth T. The Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press and the New-York Historical Society, 1995.

Labaree, Benjamin W., et al. America and the Sea: A Maritime History. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport, 1998.

Levine, Louis. The Women’s Garment Workers: A History of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. New York: B. W. Heubsch, 1924.

Maxtone-Graham, John. The Only Way to Cross. New York: Collier Books, 1978.

Nevins, Allan, and John A. Krout, eds. The Greater City: New York, 1898-1948. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948.

Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Works Project Administration. A Maritime History of New York. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1941.

Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, and Marjorie Lightman. Ellis Island and the Peopling of America. New York: New Press, 1997.

Crossing the Country: Somewhere in Wyoming, 1903


Davies, Pete. American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.

Duncan, Dayton, and Ken Burns. Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip. New York: Knopf, 2003.

McConnell, Curt. Coast to Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899-1908. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2000.

McConnell, Curt. A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It: The First Coast-to-Coast Auto Trips by Women, 1899-1916.

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Crossing the Country: Somewhere in Wyoming, 1903 cont.

Schar�, Virginia. Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

White, Roger B. Home on the Road: The Motor Home in America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Americans Adopt the Auto Eastman, Joel W. Styling v. Safety: The American Automobile Industry and the Development of Automotive Safety, 1900-1966. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1984.

Flink, James J. America Adopts the Automobile, 1895-1910. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970.

Flink, James J. The Automobile Age. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1988.

Franz, Kathleen. “Narrating Automobility: Travelers, Tinkerers, and Technological Authority in the Twentieth Century.” Providence, R.I.: Brown University, Ph.D. diss., 1999.

Hokanson, Drake. The Lincoln Highway: Main Street across America, a Tenth Anniversary Edition. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1999.

Hounshell, David. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle. The Gas Station in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Kline, Ronald R. Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

McShane, Clay. The Automobile: A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Meyer, Stephen. The Five-Dollar Day: Labor, Management, and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1981.

Rae, John B. The Road and the Car in American Life. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1971.

Schar�, Virginia. Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

U.S. Department of Transportation. America’s Highways, 1776-1976: A History of the Federal-Aid Program. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing O�ce, 1977.

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Lives on the Railroad: Salisbury, North Carolina, 1927

Brown, Charlotte Hawkins. The Correct Thing to Do—to Say—to Wear. Boston: Christopher, 1941.

Bryant, Keith L., ed. Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980. New York: Facts on File, 1988.

Davis, Colin J. Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen’s Strike. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. Goddard, Stephen B. Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Higgenbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Martin, Albro. Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Saunders, Richard, Jr. Merging Lines: American Railroads, 1900-1970. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001.

Stover, John F. American Railroads. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Wadelington, Charles W., and Richard F. Knapp. Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Welke, Barbara Young. Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.


The People’s Highway: Route 66, 1930s - 1940s


Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Scott, Quinta. Along Route 66. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

Scott, Quinta, and Susan Kelly. Route 66: The Highway and Its People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Wallis, Michael. Route 66: The Mother Road. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.

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Roadside Communities:

Ring’s Rest, Muirkirk, Maryland, 1930s

Belasco, Warren James. Americans on the Road: From Autocamp to Motel, 1910-1945. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979.


Margolies, John. Home Away from Home: Motels in America. New York: Bull�nch Press, 1995.

Family Camping: York Beach, Maine, 1930s

Aron, Cindy S. Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Burkhart, Bryan, and David Hunt. Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht. New York: Chronicle Books, 2000.


Hart, John Fraser, Michelle J. Rhodes, and John T. Morgan. The Unknown World of the Mobile Home. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Marsh, Freeman. Trailers. New York: Coward-McCann, 1937.

Nash, Charles Edgar. Trailer Ahoy! Lancaster, Pa.: Intell Pictorial, Intelligencer Printing, 1937.

Rockland, Michael Aaron. Homes on Wheels. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1980.

Thornburg, David A. Galloping Bungalows: The Rise and Demise of the American House Trailer. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1991.

Wallis, Allan D. Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

White, Roger B. Home on the Road: The Motor Home in America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2000.

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Abbott, Carl. Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Paci�c Northwest. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.


Fogelson, Robert M. Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.

Liebs, Chester H. Main Street to Miracle Mile: American Roadside Architecture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Longstreth, Richard. The Drive-In, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999.

Rubenstein, James M. Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.


Walsh, Margaret. Making Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2000.

City and Suburbs: Chicago and Park Forest, Illinois, 1950

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Altshuler, Alan. The Urban Transportation System: Politics and Policy Innovation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979.

Barrett, Paul. The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formulation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.

Blankenship, Edward G. The Airport: Architecture, Urban Integration, Ecological Problems. New York: Praeger, 1974. Callow, Alexander B., Jr., ed. American Urban History: An Interpretive Reader with Commentaries.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.


Davies, Richard O. Age of Asphalt: The Automobile, the Freeway, and the Condition of Metropolitan America. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.

Dearing, Charles L., and Wilfred Owen. National Transportation Policy. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Suburban Strip: Sandy Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, 1949

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City and Suburbs: Chicago and Park Forest, Illinois, 1950 cont.

Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

Fitch, Lyle C. & Associates. Urban Transportation and Public Policy. San Francisco: Chandler, 1964. Foster, Mark. From Streetcar to Superhighway: American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900-1940. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Kain, John F. Interrelationships of Transportation and Poverty: Summary of Conference on Transportation and Poverty. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968.

Krambles, George, and Arthur H. Peterson. CTA at 45: Recollections of the First 45 Years of the Chicago Transit Authority. Oak Park, Ill.: George Krambles Transit Scholarship Fund, 1993.

Lund, Alan R. Chicago Surface Lines: An Illustrated History. Park Forest, Ill: Transport History Press, 1974. McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: American Cities and the Coming of the Automobile. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Mayer, Harold M., and Richard C. Wade. Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.

Meyer, John R., and José A. Gómez-Ibáñez. Autos, Transit, and Cities: A Twentieth-Century Fund Report. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Mo�at, Bruce. The “L”: The Development of Chicago’s Rapid Transit System 1888-1932. Chicago: Central Electric Railfans’ Association, 1995.

Owen, Wilfred. The Metropolitan Transportation Problem. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1966.

Randall, Gregory C. America’s Original G.I. Town: Park Forest, Illinois. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Rast, Joel. Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999.

Rose, Mark. Interstate Express Highway Politics, 1941-1956. Lawrence, Kans.: Regents Press of Kansas, 1990.


Young, David M. Chicago Transit: An Illustrated History. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998.

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On the Interstate: I-10, 1956 - 1990

Davidson, Janet F., and Michael S. Sweeney. On the Move: Transportation and the American Story. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2003. Foster, Mark. From Streetcar to Superhighway: American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900-1940. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

Lewis, Tom. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life. New York: Viking, 1997.

Rose, Mark. Interstate Express Highway Politics, 1941-1956. Lawrence, Kans.: Regents Press of Kansas, 1990.

Transforming the Waterfront: San Fransiscoand Oakland, California, 1960 - 1970


Fairley, Lincoln. Facing Mechanization: The West Coast Longshore Plan. Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles, 1979.

Federal Maritime Commission. Seminars on the Container Revolution. For the Committee on Commerce, U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing O�ce, 1968.

Finlay, William. Work on the Waterfront: Worker Power and Technological Change in a West Coast Port. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.

Fitzgerald, Donald. “A History of Containerization in the California Maritime Industry: The Case of San Francisco.” Santa Barbara, Cal.: University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D. diss., 1986.

Gibson, Andrew, and Arthur Donovan. The Abandoned Ocean: A History of United States Maritime Policy. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.

Goldblatt, Louis. Men and Machines: A Story about Longshoring on the West Coast Waterfront. San Francisco: International Longhoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union and Paci�c Maritime Association, 1963.

International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. The ILWU Story: Six Decades of Militant Unionism. San Francisco: International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union, 1997.

Larrow, Charles P. Harry Bridges: The Rise and Fall of Radical Labor in the United States. New York: Lawrence Hill, 1972.

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Going Global: Los Angeles, 2000

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Adler, William M. Mollie’s Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Line. New York: Scribner’s, 2000. Bottles, Scott L. Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Cowie, Je�erson R. Capital Moves: RCA’s 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999.


Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.

DeBoer, David J. Piggyback and Container: A History of Rail Intermodal on America’s Steel Highways. San Marino, Cal.: Golden West Books, 1992.

Friedman, Thomas. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Sassen, Saskia. Cities in a World Economy. Thousand Oaks, Cal.: Pine Forge Press, 2000.

Soja, Edward W., and Allen J. Scott. The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.

Wachs, Martin, and Margaret Crawford, eds. The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.

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