Bibliography
I have divided the bibliography between resources for other teachers in Chicago and resources that are more broadly applicable to all teachers engaging with their students in this work.
Resources for Chicago Teachers
Bachrach, Julia Sniderman. The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks. Placitas, N.M.: Center for American Places, 2001. Print. This is a history of Chicago's parks compiled by the park district historian. Each park's history is accompanied by a photograph.
Burnham, Daniel Hudson. Plan of Chicago. New York: Da Capo, 1970. Print. This
edition of Burnham's Plan of Chicago makes accessible the 1909 vision for the city. Any teacher in Chicago considering teaching this unit should obtain a copy.
Dina, Frank, and Jeff Huebner. Chicago Parks Rediscovered. Chicago: Jannes Art, 2001. Print. This is another photographic tribute to Chicago's parks. The photographs present different views into the parks across Chicago's neighborhoods than other texts. And, the history at the beginning of the book provides good background for a person interested in Chicago park history.
Graf, John. Chicago's Parks: A Photographic History. Chicago: Arcadia, 2000. Print. This text, in the Images of America series, can provide a good entry point for teachers interested in looking for images of parks in their neighborhood.
Johnson, Elmer W. Chicago Metropolis 2020: The Chicago Plan for the Twenty-first Century. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2001. Print. This is the 2001 plan for the city of Chicago, also developed through the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Print. This text is a useful and engaging history of the making of modern Chicago. It is a good tool for grasping the speed at which the city developed in the mid-to-late 1800s.
Resources for All Teachers
Mars, Roman. “Holdout,” 99% Invisible. Podcast. PRX: Cambridge, MA. 2 September 2014. Though the entire series is done well, the episode "Holdout" is a great exemplar to use with students to show them how to produce an aural story about a physical place.
Perks, Robert. The Oral History Reader. London: Routledge, 1998. This text provides good background for doing oral history and includes the essay "Authoring in Sound," which is cited in this unit.
Rosenzweig, Roy, and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992. Central Park was the first landscaped park in America. This history provides good background for teachers exploring landscaped park spaces in their own cities.
Shopes, Linda. "The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project: Oral History and Community Involvement." In Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. This essay on the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project provides insight into how public historians may engage with the community in which they are working.
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