SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

WEBSITES

The websites of all the places visited in the book were of great help. It is good to check the websites for hours, closings and special exhibitions or instructions.

BOOKS

Alden, John r. A History of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969.

Bailey, thomas A. The American Pageant. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1956.

Breiner, David M. Stone Street Historic District Designation Report. New York: New York City landmarks Preservation Commission, 1996.

Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: oxford University Press, 1999.

Freebert, Ernest. The Age of Light, Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America. New York: Penguin Books, 2014.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism. New York: simon & schuster, 2013. Halberstam, David. The Powers That Be. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

Hamill, Pete. Downtown, My Manhattan. New York: little, Brown and Company, 2004.

Kisling, Vernon n., Jr. “the origin and Development of American Zoological Parks to 1899.” In New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century, edited by r.F. Hoage and William A. Deiss. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Lepore, Jill. New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

McCullough, David. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge. New York: simon & schuster, 1972.

———. Mornings on Horseback. New York: simon & schuster, 1981.

Miller, Donald l. Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America. New York: simon & schuster, 2014.

Pritchard, Evan t. Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York. san Francisco: Council oak Books, 2007.

Rybcznyski, Witold. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century. New York: scribner, 1999.

schlereth, thomas J. Victorian America: Transformation in Everyday Life. New York: Harper Collins, 1991.

schlesinger, Arthur. The Rise of the City, 1878–1898. New York: MacMillan Company, 1933.

shorto, russell. The Island at the Center of the World. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.

Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. New York: Viking, 2001.

Traxel, David. 1898: The Tumultuous Year of Victory, Invention, Internal Strife, and Industrial Expansion That Saw the Birth of the American Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

ARTICLES

Cool, Carol r. “Unbored Walk.” Traveller 7, no. 2 (summer 1999).

Gopnik, Adam. “the Man Who Invented santa Claus.” New Yorker, December 15, 1997.

The website of photographer James Maher is www.jamesmaherphotography.com.