Tools for exploring suburbanization, redlining, urban reform, and minority political incorporation — drawn from H-Net H-Urban curricula.
Trace the postwar suburban boom in a metro area — FHA loans, highway construction, white flight, the hollowing of the urban core, and the mechanisms that excluded Black families from the suburban wealth boom.
Explore how HOLC neighborhood grades shaped mortgage access, school funding, and generational wealth accumulation — and trace whose neighborhoods were colored red and what that meant.
Pick a city problem — cholera, tenements, machine politics, highway construction, urban renewal — and trace the reform movement: who organized, what institutional support they had, what changed, what didn't.
Read a neighborhood history and identify the ethnic succession — who settled first, who replaced them, what economic niches enabled each group's arrival, and how the process shaped the city's political geography.
Pick an immigrant or minority group in a city and trace how they moved from political exclusion to representation — machine politics, community organizing, protest, coalition-building, and electoral breakthroughs.
