History in Our Everyday Lives

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.03.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. The Historical Context: Hunting Park
  5. Strategies
  6. Activities
  7. Appendix
  8. Bibliography
  9. Notes

My City Need' Something

Sydney Hunt Coffin

Published September 2015

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Bibliography

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Amato, R., and J. T. Manuel. "Using Radical Public History Tours to Reframe Urban Crime." Radical History Review, 2012, 212-24.

Cranz, Galen. The Politics of Park Design: A History of Urban Parks in America. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.: MIT Pr., 1982.

Gross, Kali N. Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910. 1st ed. Durham [N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. 15-18.

"Hunting Park." Growing History. September 8, 2013. Accessed August 15, 2015.

"Hunting Park Revitalization Project – Fairmount Park Conservancy." Fairmount Park Conservancy. Accessed August 1, 2015. http://myphillypark.org/what-we-do/capital-projects/hunting-park/.

Knowles, Scott Gabriel. Imagining Philadelphia Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Laviera, Tato. "The New Rumbón." Poetry Foundation. 2014. Accessed August 18, 2015.

LeGates, Richard T. The City Reader. London: Routledge, 1996.

"Logan House." Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust. Accessed August 1, 2015. http://www.fairmountparktrust.org/lp-loganhouse.php.

Low, Setha M., and Dana Taplin. Rethinking Urban Parks Public Space & Cultural Diversity. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

PlanPhilly. Accessed August 1, 2015. http://planphilly.com/neighborhoods/hunting-park.

Rosenzweig, Roy, and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Scharf, John Thomas, and Thompson Westcott. History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884. L.H. Everts & Company, 1884. 1851.

Squeri, Lawrence. Better in the Poconos: The Story of Pennsylvania's Vacationland. Penn State Press, 2010.

Zucchino, David and Lounesberry, Emilie. "Turning A Corner In The Drug War Hunting Park Is Changing For The Better." Philly-archives. September 30, 1990. Accessed August 17, 2015.

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