History and Urban Studies 971: Seminar on the History of American Urban Problems

They Were Not Sitting Ducks: Rethinking Black Activism in Housing and Urban Renewal in Late Nineties Milwaukee

Apeku, Bernard (2022-01-01)
History of Early Twentieth Century Child Labor in America

Tamla Rai, Vijaya (2018-12-17)

This paper portrays the lives of children laboring in early twentieth century America with a closer focus on cases from Wisconsin. Child labor permits issued by Ozaukee County court and other literature and reports on child ...
Post World War II Housing Crisis for African-American Communities in the North: Case Study the Inner Core of Milwaukee, 1945 – 1968.

Taher, Mania Tahsina (2017-12-18)
Black-Jewish Tensions and Modern Antisemitism in America

Wieczorek, David Michael (2017-12-18)

This paper explores the theme of antisemitism as it relates to the relationship between Blacks and Jews. It looks at the history of the relationship and how it came to crumble during the 1960s and 1970s.
The Profits of Insanity: The Urbanization and Economic Development of Asylum Poor Farms in Wisconsin, 1890-1920

Penner, Robert W. (2017-12-18)

A primary source research project and term paper on the intersection of poverty and insanity and the exploitation of inane labor at Wisconsin county asylums 1890-1920.