Prof.
R. Fairbanks
201AUH
817-272-2864
Office Hours:
Mon/Wed 2:30-4:00PM & appt.
fairbank@uta.edu
blog.uta.edu/~fairbank
http://www.uta.edu/ra/real/faculty/fairbank
Introduction
History 3351 offers a case study in metropolitan
history using the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex as the case.
This course will explore the urban and suburban development of the two
cities with special attention to the expansion and rearrangement of their
internal form and structure; to the growth of neighborhoods, suburbs and
so-called exurbs; to the creation of governmental services, to the experiences
of racial and ethnic minorities; to their economy and urban institutions; and
to the changing nature of politics and leadership in both cities. The course
will also analyze how federal government actions impacted this areas’ growth
as well as trace the cities’ changing role in the national urban network.
Finally, the course will equip students with the necessary knowledge to allow
them to research their own areas of special interest.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, students will be able to
1. identify and discuss significant events in the shaping the Dallas and Fort Worth region.
2. incorporate primary sources relating to the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan region in a research paper that presents an historical analysis or argument using clear organization, effective style, and correct grammar.
3. assess secondary sources on the history of Dallas and/or Fort Worth.
4.
relate the growth of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to national urban
patterns.
Requirements
Since this course relies on both a lecture and a discussion format, students need to attend regularly and complete reading assignments on schedule. You will have a midterm and final exam over the material we cover in class. The midterm exam is worth 100 points composed of essay and short answer questions. The final is worth 100 points and is the same format. Students will also take two reading quizzes on The Making of Modern Dallas. Each one will be worth 50 points. Class participation on the blog is worth 50 points and is required. You need to have at least 4 substantial entries throughout the semester including at least one on either the Hill or the Fairbanks book. Entries on other readings are also encouraged. Finally, students will have in-class participation grades which include participating in field trips, class discussions and pop quizzes or other in-class writing assignments. Students are required to attend at least one field trip and are encouraged to attend two and will get additional credit under class participation for that. I reserve the right to include pop quizzes over assigned readings if class discussion falters. More than 6 unexcused class absences will result in a deduction of 10 points. Excessive tardiness (6) can also result in you losing up to 5 points
You also have an outside writing assignment worth 100 points. You have
two options for the “research” paper. You can either write a 5-10 page
research paper on some aspect of Dallas–Fort Worth using both primary and
secondary sources, or undertake a newspaper report that examines some period
in Dallas or Fort Worth history. For
the latter project, you will read a minimum of three consecutive months of a
Dallas or Fort Worth newspaper focusing on local news and then summarize what
you found out about your city for that time period.
That also should result in a 5-10 page paper.
All work should be typed and double-spaced. More guidelines will follow.
An extended version of this syllabus that includes a bibliography of
works on Dallas and Fort Worth along with links to study questions, writing
guidelines and supplemental materials can also be found online.
Required Readings (books available at UTA Bookstore)
Patricia Evridge Hill, Dallas:
The Making of a Modern City
Richard F. Selcer, Fort Worth: A
Texas Original
Michael Hazel. Dallas: A History of
"Big D"
PDF Format
Robert B. Fairbanks. For the City as a
Whole: Planning, Politics and the Public Interest in Dallas, 1900-1965
https://mavspace.uta.edu:443/fairbank/FOR_THE_CITY_AS_A_WHOLE.pdf
Required Articles
on electronic reserve
Char Miller and David R. Johnson,
“The Rise of Urban Texas” in Urban
Texas, 3-29.
Elizabeth Enstam, “The County Market Town” in Woman and the Creation of Urban Life, Dallas, Texas, 1843-1920, 3-33.
Richard G. Miller, “Fort
Worth and the Progressive Era: The Movement for Charter Revision,
1899-1907” in Essays on Urban America,
89-121.
Roger Biles, “The New Deal in Dallas,’ Southwestern Historical Quarterly, (XCV), 1-19.
W. Marvin Dulaney, "Whatever Happened to the Civil Rights Movement in Dallas?" in Essays on the Civil Rights Movement, 66-95.
Martin Melosi, “Dallas-Fort Worth: Marketing the
Metroplex," in Sunbelt Cities,
162-195.
Required Website
http://www.trinityrivertexas.org/
Internet Links
Students should visit the following links.
Texas Bird's-Eye Views http://www.birdseyeviews.org/ (very good site with 19th century bird's eye view maps of Dallas and Fort Worth)
Fort Worth Timeline www.fortworthtimeline.org (A major effort by the city of Fort Worth to put its history on the internet.)
Dallas Historical Society www.dallashistory.org (This website contains a Dallas timeline, bulletin board for researchers and other information on Dallas history)
Dallas County based maps for the years 1950 to 2000
Macintosh:
http://gis.uta.edu/sr/dallas19502000/viewer.htm
PC:
http://gis.uta.edu/sr/DallasCitiesSuburbs/viewer.htm
These maps were developed specifically for this class.
Old Red Courthouse www.oldred.org (website of the Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Culture. It has good links including an index for articles written in Legacies, the local history journal.)
Jim Wheat’s Dallas County Texas Archives http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~jwheat/index.html (good online archival material including city directories and census stuff
Architecture in Downtown Dallas http://www.dallasarchitecture.info/dallas.htm (Wonderful introduction to the skyline of Dallas. Pictures of new and older buildings with short histories)
Architecture in Downtown Fort Worth http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com ( A great introduction to the skyline of Fort Worth. Pictures of new and older buildings with short histories. This also includes links to pictures of other Fort Worth neighborhoods.)
An Archaeology of Juliette Street, Freedman's Town in
Dallas http://www.projectpast.org/dallas/index.html
midterm - 100 pts
final - 100 pts
newspaper project /research paper - 100 pts
2 Book Quizzes - 100 pts
Participation/pop quizzes -50 pts
blog assignment - 50 points
A = 500-450 pts. D = 300-349 pts.
B = 400-449 pts. F = 299-00 pts.
C = 350-399 pts.
Class Schedule and
Assignment Sheet (Reading Assignments are subject to change)
Aug. 24 Introduction to the Course
Aug. 26
Urban History and City Building in Texas (“The Rise of Urban Texas”)
Aug. 31
Inventing Dallas and Fort Worth (Selcer, 3-23; Hazel, 1-26)
Sept. 2
Life in the Frontier Towns of Dallas and Fort Worth, (Selcer, 39-43,
"County Market Town" all)
Sept. 7
No Class Labor Day
Sept. 9
Transportation and Growth in Early Dallas and Fort Worth (see
the Trinity River Website)
Sept. 14-16
From Town to City: Growth in a New Urban Age (Selcer,
30-38, Hazel, 27-36)
Sept. 21-23
Political and Social Reform in the “New City,” 1880-1920 (“Fort
Worth and the Progressive Era," all)
Sept. 28
Mike Hazel, Women and Reform
in Dallas
Sept. 30
Progressive Era Planning in Dallas and Fort Worth (Fairbanks,
intro and chapter1)
Oct. 5
Quiz and discussion of Part
1 of Dallas: The Making of a Modern City
Oct. 7
Dallas Field Trip
Oct. 12 Dallas and Fort Worth as Special Places
Oct. 14
Midterm Exam
100 POINTS
Oct. 19
The Urban Mosaic. Diversity
and Opportunities in Dallas and Fort Worth
Oct. 21
Video: Cowtown
Memories
Oct. 26-28 Reacting to Urban Fragmentation: The Klan, Suburbs and Reform as Responses (Selcer. 72-78, 94-98; Hazel 37-46, Fairbanks, chapter 2)
Nov. 2
Dallas, Ft Worth and the Great Depression ("New Deal in
Dallas," Fairbanks, chapters 3 and 4).
Nov. 4
Dallas, Fort Worth and Defense Mobilization for World War II
(Selcer, 55-71, Fairbanks, chapter 5)
Nov. 7
Fort Worth tour 10AM (yes it is a Saturday) in front of Tarrant County
Courthouse
Nov. 9 Quiz and discussion of Part 2 of Dallas: The Making of a Modern City
Nov. 11
Post War Growth and Change. The Downtown Crisis in a Booming
Metropolitan Region (Selcer,
79-93)
Nov. 16 The Transformation of Planning and Politics in a Growing Dallas
(Discussion of Fairbanks, chapters 6-8, epilogue)
Nov. 18 Race and the City: Blacks and Hispanics in Dallas and Fort
Worth (“Whatever Happened to the Civil Rights Movement in Dallas,
Texas," all; Selcer, 44-54,
Hazel, 47-55) In class video: Dallas at
the Cross Roads
Nov. 23
The Airport Crisis in Dallas and Fort Worth
Nov. 25
The Birth of Sunbelt Cities and the Invention of the
Metroplex
(“Dallas-Fort Worth: Marketing the Metroplex;”
Selcer, 99-122, Hazel 56-65)
Nov. 30
Carol Roark, Historic Preservation in Fort Worth
Dec. 2
The New World of DFW (paper due
Dec. 2)
Classroom
behavior. Students are expected to be on time to class and have cell
phones or beepers turned to the silent mode or off. Laptops can only be
used for classroom activities. No Ipods or MP3 players should be used in
the class and students should show respectful behavior for their fellow
students as well as the professor. I
reserve the right to deduct up to 25 points for any disruptive behavior in
class.
Statement on
cheating and plagiarism. It is the philosophy of
The University of Texas at Arlington that academic dishonesty is a completely
unacceptable mode of conduct and will not be tolerated in any form. All
persons involved in academic dishonesty will be disciplined in accordance with
University regulations and procedures. Discipline may include suspension or
expulsion from the University. "Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not
limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any
work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person,
any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to
commit such acts." [Regents' Rules and Regulations, Part One, Chapter Vi,
Section 3, Subsection 3.2, Subdivision 3.22]
At the least you will receive a
0 for the test or project on which you cheated.
Drop Policy. Students
who stop coming to the class are required to drop it. I am no longer allowed
to drop students for non-attendance.
Disability Policy.
The University of Texas at Arlington is on
record as being committed to both the spirit and letter of federal equal
opportunity legislation; reference Public Law 93112--The Rehabilitation Act of
1973 as amended. With the passage of new federal legislation entitled
Americans with Disabilities Act - (ADA), pursuant to section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act, there is renewed focus on providing this population with
the same opportunities enjoyed by all citizens. As a faculty member, I am
required by law to provide "reasonable accommodation" to students
with disabilities, so as not to discriminate on the basis of that disability.
Student responsibility primarily rests with informing faculty at the beginning
of the semester and in providing authorized documentation through designated
administrative channels.
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BOOKS
DALLAS
Acheson, Sam.
Dallas Yesterday. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1977.
Banitch, George. “The Ultra Conservative Congressman
from Dallas: The Rise and Fall of Bruce Alger, 1954-1964.” M.A. thesis,
University of Texas at Arlington, 2001.
Black, William Neil. “Empire of Consensus: City
Planning, Zoning, and Annexation in Dallas, 1900-1960. Ph. D. dissertation,
Columbia University, 1982.
Carney, Carolyn. “The City of Hate: Conservative and
Anti-Communist Attitudes in Dallas, Texas, 1950-1964.”
M.A. Thesis, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, 1994.
Carraro. Francine. Jerry
Bywaters: A Life in Art.. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Cristol, Gerry. A
Light in the Prairie: Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, 1872-1997. Fort Worth:
Texas Christian University Press, 1998.
Dallas Institute for the Humanities and Culture. Imagining
Dallas .Dallas: Dallas Institute, 1982.
Enstam, Elizabeth York,
Women and the Creation of Urban Life. College Station: Texas A&M
University Press, 1998.
Fairbanks, Robert B.
For the City as a Whole: Planning, Politics and the Public Interest in
Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.
Graff, Harvey, The
Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Govenor, Alan B. and Jay F. Brakefield. Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of
Dallas Converged. Denton:
University of North Texas Press, 1998.
Greene, A.C. Dallas: The Deciding Years -- A Historical Portrait. Austin: Encino Press, 1973.
______, ____. Dallas
U.S.A. Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1984.
______, _____. A
Place Called Dallas: The
Pioneering Years of a Continuing Metropolis . Dallas: Dallas County
Heritage Society, 1975.
Hanson, Royce. Civic
Culture and Urban Change: Governing Dallas. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 2003.
Hazel, Michael V., ed.
Dallas Reconsidered: Essays in
Local History. Dallas: Three Forks Press, 1995.
_____, ________. Dallas:
A History of Big “D” . Austin:
Texas State Historical Association, 1997.
Hill, Patricia Evridge.
Dallas: The Making of a Modern City. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1996.
___, _____________. “Origins of Modern Dallas.” Ph.
D. dissertation, University of Texas at Dallas, 1990.
Hill-Aiello, Thomas.
“Dallas, Cotton, and the Transatlantic Economy, 1865-1956.” Ph. D.
University of Texas at Arlington, 2006.
Holmes, Maxine and Saxon, Gerald, eds. The WPA Dallas Guide and History. Denton, Texas: Dallas Public
Library, Texas Center for the Book, University of North Texas Press, 1992.
Howard, James. Big
D is for Dallas: Chapters in 20thh Century History of Dallas.
Austin, Texas:University Cooperative Society, 1957.
Leslie, Warren. Dallas
Public and Private: Aspects of an American City. New
York: Grossman, 1964. [Reissued in
1998 with an introduction by Harvey J. Graff and Patricia Evridge Hill and
published by Southern Methodist University Press]
Linden, Glenn M. Desegregating
Schools in Dallas: Four Decades in the Federal Courts. Dallas: Three Forks
Press. 1995.
McCorkle, Gerald Steward, “Desegregation and Busing in
the Dallas Independent School District,” M.A. Thesis, Univ. of Texas at
Arlington, 2006.
McDonald, William L. Dallas
Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion 1870-1925.
Dallas: Dallas Historical Society, 1978.
McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur.
Pauline Periwinkle and
Progressive Reform in Dallas
College Station: Texas A & M University, 1998.
Minutaglio, Bill and Holly Williams. The Hidden City: Oak Cliff, Texas.
Dallas: Elmwood Press and the Oak Cliff Conservation League, 1990.
Marcus, Stanley. Minding
the Store. Denton: University
of North Texas 1997 [1974].
Morgan, Ruth P. Governance
by Decree: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act in Dallas. Lawrence,
Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Payne, Darwin. As
Old as Dallas Itself: A History of the Lawyers of Dallas, the Dallas Bar
Associations and the City They Helped Build (Dallas: Three Fork Press,
1999.
Payne, Darwin. Big
D: Triumphs and Troubles of an
American Supercity in the Twentieth Century.
Dallas, Three Forks Press, 1994.
Payne, Darwin. The
Dallas Citizens Council: An Obligation of Leadership. Dallas: Three Forks
Press, 2008.
Payne, Darwin and Kathy Fitzpatrick. From Prairie to Planes: How Dallas and Fort Worth Overcame Politics
and Personalities to Build One of the World’s Biggest and Busiest Airports.
Dallas: Three Forks Press, 1999.
Payne, Darwin, Quest
for Justice: Louis A, Bedford Jr. and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas.
Dallas SMU Press. 2009.
Payne, Darwin, ed. Sketches
of a Growing Town: Episodes and People of Dallas from Early Days to Recent
Times. Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 1991.
Phillips, Michael.
White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
Prince, Robert. A
History of Dallas From a Different Perspective. Dallas: Sunbelt Media,
Nortex Press, 1993.
Ragsdale, Kenneth B.
The Year America Discovered
Texas: Centennial 36. College
Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988.
Santerre, George H. White
Cliffs of Dallas: The Story of La Reunion the Old French Colony. Dallas:
Book Craft, 1955.
Shulman, Laurie. The
Meyerson Symphony Center: Building a Dream. Denton: University of North
Texas Press, 2000.
Schutze, Jim. The
Accommodation: The Politics of Race in an American City. Secaucus, N.J.;
Citadel Press, 1986.
Sharp, Ernest. G.
B. Dealey of the Dallas Morning News.
New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1955.
Thometz, Carol Estes. The
Decision Makers: The Power Structure of Dallas. Dallas: Southern Methodist
University Press, 1963.
Wiley, Nancy. The
Great State Fair of Texas: An Illustrated History. Dallas: Taylor
Publishing Co., 2000.
Wilson, William H. Hamilton
Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Wright, Lawrence. In
the New World: Growing Up With America, 1960-1984. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 1988.
ARTICLES AND
ESSAYS
DALLAS
A number of articles can be found in Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas and
Heritage News. Also see the
following.
Behnken, Brian D. "The Dallas Way: Protest,
Response, and the Civil Rights Experience in Big D and Beyond." Southwestern Historical Quarterly CXI (July 2007): 1-29.
Biles, Roger. “The New Deal in Dallas.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly XCV (July
1991):1-19.
Davidson, Rondel V. “Victor
Considerant and the Failure of La Reunion.”Southwestern Historical Quarterly LXXVI (January 1973): 277-96.
Dulaney, W. Marvin. “The
Progressive Voters League: A Political Voice for African Americans in Dallas.”
Legacies 3(Spring 1991):27-35.
_______. _________. Whatever Happened to the Civil Rights Movement in Dallas, Texas? In Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement. eds., W. Marvin Dulaney and Kathleen Underwood. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993..
Elkin, Stephen L. “State and Market in City Politics:
Or, The ‘Real Dallas.’” In The
Politics of Urban Development, eds.
Clarence Stone and Heywood Sanders, 25-51.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987.
Enstram, Elizabeth Y. “The Forgotten Frontier: Dallas Women and Social Caring, 1895-1920.” Legacies 1( Spring 1989): 20-28.
_______, ______. “The
Frontier Woman as City Workers: Women’s Occupations in Dallas, Texas,
1856-1880.” East Texas Historical
Journal XVIII (Spring 1980): 12-28.
Fairbanks, Robert B.
“Advocating City Planning in the Public Schools: The Chicago and Dallas
Experiences, 1911-1928.” In Making
Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in
Urban America, eds. Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin, 57-74.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001.
_________, _____. “Boosterisnm, Reform, and Planning in
Dallas in the 1920s and 1930s.” In
Major Problems in Texas History:
Documents and Essays, eds. Sam W. Haynes and Cary D. Wintz, 360-369.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.
________,_______. “Dallas in the 1940s: The Challenges
and Opportunities of Defense Mobilization.” In Urban
Texas, ed. Car Miller and Heywood Sanders, 141-153.
College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press, 1990.
_________, _______. “From
Consensus to Controversy: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing in Dallas.” Legacies
1 (Fall 1989): 37-43.
_________, _______. “The
Good Government Machine: The Citizens Charter Association and Dallas Politics,
1930-1960.” In Essays on Sunbelt
Cities and Recent Urban America, ed. Robert B. Fairbanks and Kathleen Underwood, 125-150. College
Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990.
_________, _______.”Metropolitan Planning and Downtown
Redevelopment: The Cincinnati and Dallas Experiences, 1940-1960.”Planning
Perspectives 2 (1987): 237-253.
_________, _______. “Planning, Public Works, and
Politics: The Trinity River Reclamation Project in
Dallas.” In Planning the
Twentieth Century American City, eds.
Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver, 187-212. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Univ. Press, 1996.
__________, _______. “Public Housing for the City as a
Whole: The Texas Experience, 1934-1955,”
Southwestern Historical Quarterly CIII (April 2000): 403-424.
________, _______. “Responding to the Airplane: Urban
Rivalry, Metropolitan Regionalism, and Airport Development in Dallas,
1927-1965.” In Technical Knowledge in
American Culture: Science, Technology, and Medicine Since the Early 1880s,
eds. Hamilton Cravens, Alan I Marcus, and David M. Katzman, 171-188.
Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1996.
________, ________.”Rethinking Urban Problems:
Planning, Zoning, and City Government in Dallas, 1900-1930.” Journal of Urban History 25 (September 1999):809-837.
Hazel, Michael V. “The
Critic Club: Sixty Years of Quiet Leadership.” Legacies 2 (Fall 1990): 9-17.
Hooks, Michael Q. “The Role of Promoters in Urban
Rivalry: The Dallas-Fort Worth Experience, 1870-1910,” Red River Historical Review 7 (1982), 4-16
Jackson, Kenneth T. “Dallas:
Dynamo of the Southwest.” In The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 . New York: Oxford
University Press, 1967, pp. 66-80.
McElhaney, Jackie. “Navigating the Trinity.” Legacies
3(Spring 1991): 4- 13.
Melosi, Martin V. “Dallas-Fort Worth: Marketing the
Metroplex.” In Sunbelt Cities:
Politics and Growth Since World War II, eds. Richard M. Bernard and
Bradley R. Rice, 162-195. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.
McCorkle, Gerald Steward. "Busing Comes to
Dallas." Southwestern Historical
Quarterly CXI (Jan. 2008): 305-333.
Phillips, Michael. "White Violence, Hegemony and
Slave Rebellion in Dallas, Texas, Before the Civil War," East Texas Historical Journal 37(Fall
1999): 25-35.
Smith, Thomas H. “Conflict
and Corruption: The Dallas Establishment vs. the Freedmen’s Bureau Agent.”
Legacies 1(Fall 1989): 24-30.
Wilson, William H. “Adapting to Growth: Dallas Texas
and the Kessler Plan.” Arizona and the
West 25 (August 1983): 245-260.
FORT WORTH
Barksdale, E.C. The Genesis of the Aviation Industry in North Texas. Austin: Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas, 1958.
Buenger, Victoria and Walter L. Buenger. Texas Merchant: Marvin Leonard and Fort Worth. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Cohen, Judith Singer. Cowtown Moderne: Art Deco Architecture of Fort Worth, Texas. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988.
Hill-Aiello, Thomas. “Martial Fort Worth? Protecting the Interests of the City and the Nation, 1945-1961.” M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington, 2001.
Garrett, Julia K. Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph. Austin: Encino Press, 1972.
Knight, Oliver, Fort Worth: Outpost on the Trinity Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1990[1953].
Pate, J'Nell L. Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887-1987. College
Station:
Texas A & M University Press, 1988.
___,_______.
North of the River: A Brief
History of North Fort Worth. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University
Press, 1994.
Pearce, James T. “Crime and Punishment in Cowtown,”
Ph. D. University of Texas at Arlington. 2000.
Roark, Carol E . Fort Worth & Tarrant County :An Historical Guide Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 2003.
Selcer, Richard F. Fort that Became a City : An Illustrated Reconstruction of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1995.
_____, _________ Fort Worth: A Texas Original. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004.
_______, ______. Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend in a Red-Light District. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1991.
Talbert, Robert H.
Cowtown-Metropolis: Case Study of a City's Growth and Structure.
Fort Worth, Texas: Leo Potishman Foundation, 1956.
Buisseret. David. A
Cartographic History of Arlington and the Dallas-Fort Worth Area. Center
for Greater Western Studies and the History of Cartography. Arlington:
University of Texas at Arlington, 2006.
Cannon, David Lynn , “Arlington’s Path to
Post-Suburbia,” Ph. D.
dissertation, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, 2000.
Allan Saxe. Politics
of Arlington, Texas: An Era of Continuity and Growth. Austin: Eakin Press,
2001.