Timothy Gilfoyle

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Timothy Gilfoyle is affiliated with the following schools: University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago, Loyola University Chicago, Columbia University, Empire State University

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PhD History University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Timothy J. Gilfoyle is an American historian from New York who is a professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches American urban and social history. He gained a B.A. in 1979, followed by a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University in 1987. He is the former president of the Urban History Association .

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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (1992) (187)
Prostitutes in history: from parables of pornography to metaphors of modernity. (1999) (93)
The invention of pornography: Obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500–1800 (1996) (51)
The First Sexual Revolution: The Emergence of Male Heterosexuality in Modern America. (1994) (43)
White Cities, Linguistic Turns, and Disneylands: The New Paradigms of Urban History (1998) (41)
The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (2008) (32)
The Making of New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940 (1991) (32)
Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900 (2004) (28)
Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (2006) (20)
The Moral Origins of Political Surveillance: The Preventive Society in New York City, 1867-1918 (1986) (19)
Prostitutes in the archives: problems and possibilities in documenting the history of sexuality. (1994) (19)
A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York (2006) (14)
Archaeologists in the Brothel: “Sin City,” Historical Archaeology and Prostitution (2005) (10)
Strumpets and Misogynists: Brothel “Riots” and the Transformation of Prostitution in Antebellum New York City (1993) (8)
The Hearts of Nineteenth-Century Men: Bigamy and Working-Class Marriage in New York City, 1800–1890 (1994) (6)
Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto (2013) (6)
“America's Greatest Criminal Barracks” (2003) (5)
Scorsese's Gangs of New York: Why Myth Matters (2003) (5)
The Lost Museum (2011) (4)
Gangs in the Post-World War II North American City (2002) (4)
Introduction: Urban History, Arnold Hirsch, and the Second Ghetto Thesis Redux (2003) (3)
The Urban Geography of Commercial Sex (1987) (2)
Staging the Criminal: In the Tenderloin, Freak Drama, and the Criminal Celebrity (2005) (2)
A Pickpocket's Tale: The Autobiography of George Appo (1993) (1)
Revisting Gangs in the Post–World War II North American City (2012) (1)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History (2019) (1)
Introduction: New Perspectives on Crime and Punishment in the American City (2003) (1)
Making an American Upper Class (2002) (1)
THE IMMIGRANT, HOLLYWOOD AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING (2015) (1)
Cindy R. Lobel, 1970-2018: Historian of New York; AHA Member (2019) (0)
Breaking Chicago’s Glass Ceilings: Making History Interviews with Deborah L. DeHaas and Adele S. Simmons (2018) (0)
Obituary (2019) (0)
Add Prostitutes and Stir (1993) (0)
Book Reviews: Harrisburg's Old Eighth Ward, edited by Michael Barton and Jessica Dorman. (2005) (0)
Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919. By Timothy B. Spears. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxiii + 322 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. ISBN: cloth, 0-226-76873-2; paper, 0-226-76874-0 (2006) (0)
Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York , Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 386. $29.95 (ISBN 978-0-674-03283-5). (2010) (0)
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 by Kali N. Gross (2008) (0)
Ordinary People Leading Extrordinary Lives: Making History Interviews with Fritzie Fritzshall and Art Johnston (2017) (0)
Chicago's Education Innovators: Making History INterviews with Paul Adams III and Walter Massey (2017) (0)
Revising the Newsboy (2023) (0)
Harrisburg's Old Eighth Ward (2005) (0)
Sporting Heroes: Interviews with Mike Krzyzewski and Jerry Reinsdorf (2014) (0)
A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (review) (2009) (0)
Finding God in the City: Religion and Urban History (2017) (0)
The Changing Forms of History (2015) (0)
Rebecca Yamin & Donna J. Seifert. 2019. The archaeology of prostitution and clandestine pursuits. Gainesville: University Press of Florida; 978-0-8130-5645-6 hardback $85. (2020) (0)
Introduction (2009) (0)
Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld by Dominique Kalifa (review) (2020) (0)
John Adams Returns (2002) (0)
Chicago's Public Servants: Making History Interviews with William M. Daley and Jesse White Jr. (2016) (0)
Michael Katz on Place and Space in Urban History (2015) (0)
Urban History: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? (2006) (0)
Introduction (2003) (0)
Children as Vagrants, Vagabonds, and Thieves in Nineteenth-Century America (2012) (0)
Introduction (2003) (0)
Chicago’s Global Entrepreneurs: Making History Interviews with John Canning and Ronald Gidwitz (2018) (0)
Converging cultural shifts during the first half of the nineteenth century transformed jolly fellowship. Moral reform stigmatized it and generated a competing model of manhood based on self-restraint (2011) (0)
BUILDING METROPOLIS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN URBAN ARCHITECTURE (2003) (0)
Wisconsin Roots: Making History Interviews with Richard M. Jaffee and John W. Rowe (2015) (0)
11. JOURNALISM (2009) (0)
North Side, South Side, All Around the Town: Making History Interviews with Anne McGlone Burke and Josephine Baskin Minow (2019) (0)
Serving Chicago: Interviews with Mary Dempsey and Bernie Wong (2014) (0)
Making History: Quarks, Neutrinos, and Virtual Perfection: Interviews with Robert W. Galvin and Leon M. Lederman (1996) (0)

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