Abstract
hat is presently called urban history originated as a sub-discipline in response to the so-called urban crisis of the 1960s. In 1932 scholars of Pennsylvania history interested in exploring Philadelphia's past turned to Thomas Scharf and Thompson Westcott's 1884 History of Philadelphia or Horace Mather Lippincott's tome. Leland Baldwin produced a somewhat similar albeit more popular urban biography of Pittsburgh in 1937. Before 1968 scholars like Frederick B. Tolles and Struthers Burt did write about Philadelphia Quakers; Edwin Wolf and Maxwell Whiteman; about Philadelphia Jews; while Richard Wade and Carl Bridenbaugh (in the vein of Frederick Jackson Turner) strategically situated both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia on the cultural frontier of the young American civilization. None of this announced the emergence of a new historical discipline.1 Sam Bass Warner changed all that. Warner's pioneering 1968 Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of its Growth made The City of Brotherly Love a laboratory (scaffolding) for the
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