Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ425030
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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Historians and the Suburbs.
Marsh, Margaret
OAH Magazine of History, v5 n2 p43-49 Fall 1990
Reviews suburbanization of United States, created by assembly line construction, wartime housing shortages, and federal mortgage subsidies. States earlier scholars viewed suburban migration as a solution to urban overcrowding, whereas later scholars examined suburbs as symbolic of U.S. values and conformity, insulated from problems of U.S. cities. (NL)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Historians, Literature Reviews, Local History, Middle Class Standards, Modern History, North American Culture, Residential Patterns, Secondary Education, Social Studies, Social Values, Suburban Environment, Suburban Housing, Suburbs, United States History, Urban to Suburban Migration
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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