Maureen A.

Flanagan: Research and Scholarship

Books:

Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good
City, 1871-1933. Princeton, 2002
Charter Reform in Chicago. Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.

Work in Progress

Books:
America Reformed: Progressives and Progressivisms, 1895-1925 (under
contract with Oxford University Press)
Women, Gender and Urbanization in the United States (contract Indiana
University Press)
Co-editor (and contributor) to a book on Chicago Ethnic Women's Clubs

Essays:

"Women, Gender, and the Urban Built Environment in the North

American Context"
"The Political Education of a Gloveworker: Agnes Nestor and Chicago
Politics"

Recent Articles and Essays:

"Being the 'Other': Teaching U.S. History as a Fulbright Professor in

Egypt," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (October 2002):
347-63

Introduction for reissue of Louise DeKoven Bowen, Growing Up with a

City (University of Illinois Press, 2001): 9-24.

"Environmental Justice in the City: A Theme for Urban Environmental

History," Environmental History (April 2000): 159-64.

"Anna Wilmarth Ickes: A Staunch Woman Republican," in We Have

Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960,
eds.,Melanie Gustafson, Kristie Miller, and Elisabeth Perry (University
of New Mexico, 1999): 141-50.
 "Women in the City, Women of the City: Where Do Women Fit in
Urban History?" Introduction for Special Issue on "Women and the
City," Journal of Urban History (March 1997): 251-259.

"The City Profitable, the City Livable: Environmental Policy, Gender,

and Power in Chicago in the 1910s," Journal of Urban History (January
1996): 163-90.

"Exercising New Rights: Suffrage and Women's Political Power from a

Local Perspective," Social Politics: International Studies in Gender,
State and Society (Fall 1995): 305-3

"Gender and Urban Political Reform: The City Club and The Woman's
City Club of Chicago in the Progressive Era," American Historical
Review (October 1990):1032-50; reprinted in Retracing the Past:
Readings in the History of the American People (3rd Edition), eds., Gary
Nash and Ronald Schultz (1994); and in Who Were the Progressives?,
ed., Glenda E. Gilmore, part of the series "Historians at Work" (2002).

"Fred Busse: A Silent Mayor in Turbulent Times," in The Mayors:The

Chicago Political Tradition, eds., Melvin Holli and Paul Green,
Southern Illinois University Press, 1987 (second edition, 1995).

Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries (Published and Forthcoming):

"Madeleine Wallin Sikes" and "Frances Crane Lillie" in Women Building

Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary" (2001)
"Katharine Anthony," in American National Biography (1999)
"City Charter," in Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and
Suburbs (1998)
"Municipal Charters," "Women Suffrage," "Anna Wilmarth Ickes," "The
Woman's City Club of Chicago," "Feminist Movements," "The 'Grey
Wolves,'" "The Illinois League of Women Voters," "Women's Worlds
Fair of 1925," "Chicago Political Equality League," and "Chicago
Politics" for Encyclopedia of Chicago History
"Election of 1916," for American Presidential Campaigns and Elections
"National Organization of Women," "Sanitary Commission, United
States," "Consumers Leagues," "President's Commission on the Status of
Women," "General Federation of Women's Clubs," "Women's Clubs,"
and "Women's Bureau" for Dictionary of American History

Selected Book Reviews:

A Fierce Discontent: the Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in
America, 1870-1920, by Michael McGerr, in Journal of the Gilded Age
and Progressive Era (forthcoming 2004)

La democrazia vissuta: individualismo e pluralismo nel pensiero di

Mary Parker Follett, by Raffaela Baritono, in Journal of American
History (July 2003)

Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan

Community, by Paul H. Mattingly, in Urban Studies: An International
Journal for Research in Urban and Regional Studies ( 2003)

Helping Others: Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland,

Ohio, 1880-1930, by Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan, in Northeast Ohio
Journal of History ( 2003)

Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League Women's

Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era, by Landon R.Y.
Storrs, in Journal of Southern History (May 2002)

How Women Saved the City, by Daphne Spain, in The Annals of Iowa
(Spring 2002)

Don't Breathe the Air: Air Pollution and U.S. Environmental Politics,
1945-1970, by Scott H. Dewey, in Journal of Southern History (August
2002)

Trionfo e declino dei partiti politici negli Stati Uniti, 1860-1930, by

Arnaldo Testi, in Journal of American History (September 2002)

Modern Mothers in the Heartland: Gender, Health, and Progress in

Illinois, 1900-1930, by Lynne Curry, in Journal of Family History
(2003)

Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, by

Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, in Indiana Magazine of History
(2003)

La democrazia vissuta: individualismo e pluralismo nel pensiero di

Mary Parker Follett, in Journal of American History (2003)
Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California
Women's Movement, 1880-1911, by Gayle Gullett, in Journal of
American History (February 2001)

Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image, by Douglas

Bukowski, in American Historical Review (June 2000)

Laboratoires du Nouveau Siècle: La nébuleuse réformatrice at ses

réseaux en France, 1880-1914, Christian Topalov, ed., for H-Urban
(September 2000)

Review essay of Scenes from the Life of a City: Corruption and

Conscience in Old New York, by Eric Homberger; The Public City: the
Political Construction of Public Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900, by
Philip Ethington; Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, by
Karen Sawislak; and Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great
Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman, by
Carl Smith in the Journal of Urban History (July 1999): 725-33

Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory

Democracy during the Progressive Era, by Kevin Mattson, for H-Urban
(February 1999)

Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights, by Ellen Carol DuBois, for H-

SHGAPE (October 1998)

Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago, by

Roger Biles, American Historical Review (April 1997)

Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New

York, Cleveland, and Chicago, by Kenneth Finegold, for H-SHGAPE
(November 1996)

Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872, by Robin L.