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The Climate is in Your Head, Inside Higher Education, December 10, 2010
Detroit, vestiges du rêve américain, Le Monde, December 9, 2010
L'american dream d'une société de propriétaires est mort, L'Echo (Brussels), September 3, 2010.
Mt Airy Named One of Best Neighborhoods, NBC News Philadelphia, February 20, 2010.
Spring 2010 Hardcovers: Contemporary Affairs, Publishers Weekly, January 25, 2010.
Federal Bias Toward Homeownership, Cato@Liberty, January 11, 2010.
Decade in Review: The Biggest Stories from 2000-2009, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 27, 2009.
Will the Packard Purr Again? Detroit Free Press, November 12, 2009.
Will "Notown" Become Everytown? In These Times, Nvember 10, 2009.
Paperback Row, New York Times Book Review, November 8, 2009.
Ten Books that Didn't Get the Treatment, The Root, November 4, 2009.
Living in the Shadow of Yankee Stadium, Counterpunch, October 30, 2009.
New in Paperback, Cleveland Plain Dealer, October 18, 2009.
Mulling a Long-Term Drop in Homeownership Rate, American Banker, October 8, 2009.
In One Home, A Mighty City's Rise and Fall, Wall Street Journal, September 25, 2009.
The New American Dream: Renting, Wall Street Journal, August 15, 2009.
Ten Places to Relive the '60s, U.S. News and World Report, August 13, 2009.
Bestsellers in U.S. History, Library Journal, July 23, 2009.
On the Boards, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 13, 2009.
We Shall Overcome Some Day--but apparently that day isn't 2009, Philadelphia Daily News, July 8, 2009
The Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue, Penn Gazette, May/June 2009.
Fighting for Civil Rights: The Incomplete Victory, Milwaukee Shepherd-Express, May 12, 2009.
America's Most Dangerous Cities, Forbes, April 23, 2009.
Not in My Neighborhood, Columbia Magazine, Spring 2009.
Talk, Meetings to Redefine Civil Rights Movement, UNC News, March 4, 2009.
Los Angeles Times Announces 2008 Book Prize Nominees, Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2009.
Exploring abandoned industrial hulks, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1, 2009.
Review of Sweet Land of Liberty, Charleston Journal-Gazette/ Times-Courier, February 24, 2009.
Looking Back: I-496 Construction Complicated Legacy, Lansing State Journal, February 22, 2009.
All the President's Books: Books Recommended for Barack Obama's Reading List, Minnesota Public Radio, February 19, 2009.
A Chorus of Voices on the African American Experience, Hartford Courant, February 1, 2009.
Scholar Documents an Earlier Push for Civil Rights, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, February 1, 2009.
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The Northern Struggle on Civil Rights, Raleigh News-Observer, February 1, 2009.
Sweet Land of Liberty, Chicago Tribune, January 31, 2009.
Recommended New Books, Tuscon Citizen, January 26, 2009.
Auto industry's slide cuts a main route to the middle class, USA Today, January 21, 2009.
South Jersey gears up for historical moment, Courier-Post, January 13, 2009.
Book examines blacks' struggle for equality in the North, Tulsa World, January 11, 2009.
Freeing the North, review of Sweet Land of Liberty, Newsday, January 4, 2009
For Inauguration zeal, LBJ '65 may be the precedent for Obama, Boston Globe, January 2, 2009.
True North, Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2009.
Autoworkers demand revolution, Michigan Citizen, December 30, 2008
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North: An Interview with Thomas Sugrue, History News Network, December 15, 2008
The Untold Story of the Civil Rights Movement--In the North, BeyondChron (San Francisco), December 11, 2008
Movement North, E-History, December 2008.
Auto Industry a Boon and Bust for Blacks in the Midwest, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, December 7, 2008.
Liberty is a Worthy Struggle, Harvard Crimson, December 5, 2008
Was November 4 the End of Racial History? The New Republic Online, December 4. 2008
At GSD, U Penn's Thomas Sugrue talks about civil rights in the Metropolis, Harvard Gazette, December 4, 2008
The Auto Industry Meltdown and How It is Burning Black Folks, Ebony, November 2008
Review: Sweet Land of Liberty, Bookreporter.com, November 2008
The Other Battlefield: Sweet Land of Liberty, Boston Globe, November 30, 2008.
Detroit Bound, Metro Times, November 26, 2008
Black and White, North and South, New York Observer, November 26, 2008
Thomas Sugrue, author of Urban Crisis, promotes new book," Michigan Review, November 25, 2008
The Northern Front, New York Times Book Review, November 23, 2008
From the Rise of Civil Rights to the Debate Over Affirmative Action," Washington Post, November 16, 2008
Uncommon Ground, New York Times Book Review, November 9, 2008
New Arrivals, Indianapolis Star, November 9, 2008
A Day Like No Other, Philadelphia Daily News, November 5, 2008
Book of the Week, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 4, 2008.
Book of the Week: Post-Racial America: Not Yet,Books and Culture, November 3, 2008
So, you're looking for a good read? Norfolk Pilot, Oct. 12, 2008
Hitting the shelves, Denver Post, Sept. 25, 2008
Fiction and non-fiction books for fall, McClatchy Newspapers, Sept. 24, 2008
40 upcoming fiction and non-fiction books, Seattle Times, Sept. 21, 2008
A century of General Motors: Detroit reshaped, retooled, Detroit News, Sept. 16, 2008
On racial issues, GM traveled rocky road from laggard to leader, Automotive News, Sept. 14, 2008
Even during the Depression, GM managed to make money, Automotive News, Sept. 14, 2008
City's sometimes rocky image tarnished further after scandal, Detroit News, Sept. 4, 2008.
Fall Book Preview, Washington Post, Aug. 31, 2008
Fall Books Preview, San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 31, 2008
Liberals a Sideshow in Denver, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 25, 2008
King's legacy is felt forty years after death, Metro, April 4, 2008
Saving Race: forty years after his death MLK's message has never been more relevant, City Paper, March 26, 2008
Don't let the green grass fool you, New York Times, February 10, 2008
Outgoing Dean of Wayne State University Law School Creates Endowment, Michigan Lawyer, January 28, 2008
Author states that history of struggle for racial equality has been mischaracterized, South End, January 16, 2006
New Book Tackles Race in the North, Detroit Free Press, January 11, 2008
Stamping Out Detroit Postmark Irks 'Michigan Metro' Residents, Bloomberg News, October 30, 2007
Author says cities foster inequality, Cleveland Call and Post, October 17, 2007
Riot or Rebellion: Detroiters Don't Agree," Detroit News, July 18, 2007
Forty Years Later, Riot Wounds Remain, Newark Star-Ledger, July 16, 2007
Remembering When Plainfield Burned--Forty Years Later Riot Wounds Remain, Newark Star-Ledger, July 15, 2007
Crossroads, Part I: Before 1967, A Gathering Storm, Newark Star-Ledger, July 8, 2007
Detroit Can't Afford to Lose This Family, Detroit Free Press, March 13, 2007
Forgotten But Not Gone, Detroit Free Press, March 12, 2007
"Jim Crow" is Shocking Reminder, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 9,, 2007
City Wants to Fix Up But Not Push Out, Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, December 10, 2006.
Readers' Poll: Best Non-Fiction Book Set in Detroit, Metro Times, October 18, 2006
Bill McGraw: Film on Race Looks at Detroit, Detroit Free Press, September 6, 2006
Doubts Cast Over Casino Benefits, BBC Scotland, September 3, 2006
Thomas Sugrue speaks on the forces of segregation in Detroit, Michigan Times, October 10, 2006
That Train Done Gone and Left the Station: Yes, Residents of Casino Neighborhoods Got Railroaded, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 16, 2006.
Blacks' Dream Cruises About More than Fun, Detroit Free Press, August 17, 2006
1956: Pioneering Year: Youth Culture, Civil Rights, the Suburbs, Women's Rights, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 6, 2006
Street Fair: Philadelphia's First Integrated Housing Development Turns 50, Philadelphia Weekly, July 26, 2006
Beyond the Picket Fence, Boston Globe, July 23, 2006
Heart of Detroit is On a Roll, Detroit News, July 15, 2006
Not So Middle America: Suburban Flight, Gentrification Put the Squeeze on Incredibly Shrinking Middle Class, Kansas City Star, July 4, 2006
Four Cities Offer Cautionary Tales to the Next Mayor of Newark, Newark Star-Ledger, May 7, 2006
Sugrue Named Top Young Historian, History News Network, April 9, 2006
Rustbaelte, Weekendavisen (Copenhagen, Denmark), April 6, 2006
Granholm Pushes Affirmative Action at Civil Rights Summit, Detroit News, March 28, 2006
Revising the Suburbs, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 24, 2006
How Super Bowl Fast Tracked Houston's Comeback, Detroit News, February 12, 2006
Ford Can't Sustain Its Workforce, San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2006
NAACP Leader Turned Heads by Backing 'Tookie' Williams, Baltimore Sun, January 15, 2006
Till Rites Site Could Become a Landmark, Chicago Tribune, Nov. 1, 2005
Hispanics and Blacks Take Different Path to Success, Detroit News, September 4, 2005