The scandal of reform the grand failures of New York's political crusaders and the death of nonpartisanship / by Barry, Francis S., 1975-

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A perfect Babel of confusion Dutch religion and English culture in the middle colonies / by Balmer, Randall Herbert

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Coxsackie : the life and death of prison reform / by Spillane, Joseph F.

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Coxsackie The Life and Death of Prison Reform / by Spillane, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…The reformer's mural -- A new deal for prisons : the politics of reform in New York -- Adolescents adrift : young men on the road to Coxsackie -- Against the wall : survival and resistance at Coxsackie -- Reform at work : ideas into action at Coxsackie -- A conspiracy of frustration : coming home -- The frying pan and the fire : the reformatory in crisis, 1944-1963 -- Out of time : Coxsackie and the end of the reform idea -- Floodtide : Coxsackie and post-reformatory prison politics, 1963-1977 -- Conclusion : the ghost of prisons future.…”
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Coxsackie : The Life and Death of Prison Reform / by Spillane, Joseph F.

Table of Contents: “…The ashes of reform --…”
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Streetwise for book smarts grassroots organizing and education reform in the Bronx / by Su, Celina, 1977-

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Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city the life and times of an urban reformer / by Pritchett, Wendell E.

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Organizing for educational justice the campaign for public school reform in the South Bronx / by Fabricant, Michael

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House of Refuge : Origins of Juvenile Reform in New York State, 1815-1857 / by Pickett, Robert S.

Table of Contents: “…Manhattan, gateway to the New York world (1825-55) -- The society for the prevention of pauperism (1825-55) -- The quest for support (1824-26) -- Joseph Curtis, first superintendent of the New York house of refuge (1824-26) -- Institutions for the reformation of juvenile delinquents (1825-59) -- "Most prolific sources of juvenile crime" (1826-56) -- The road to Albany (1827-54) -- The New York house of refuge system (1827-54) -- Coming of age (1827-57).…”
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Unprotected labor household workers, politics, and middle-class reform in New York, 1870-1940 / by May, Vanessa H.

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Pursuing Johns : Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930 / by Mackey, Thomas C., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Veiller again prevailed": disappointment and death -- Reflection on a reform.…”
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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

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William Jay abolitionist and anticolonialist / by Budney, Stephen P., 1950-

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Democracy, liberty, and property the state Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s /

Table of Contents: “…The test oath -- The Third Article -- The "poll parish" -- Tax exemption -- The suffrage -- The basis of representation -- Joseph Story on representation -- Daniel Webster on representation -- "Address to the people" -- Statement of the votes for and against the Articles of Amendment, in the several counties -- The Council of Revision and the veto power -- The term of the governor -- The appointive power -- The Senate and the suffrage -- The Negro and the suffrage -- Blasphemy and libel -- Reform of the judiciary -- Cooke on democratic representation -- Upshur on majorities and minorities -- Doddridge in rebuttal -- Leigh on power and property -- Randolph on the federal issue -- Marshall on compromise -- Summers on the Gordon plan -- Gordon on the Gordon plan -- The non-freeholders' memorial -- The freehold suffrage defended -- The reformers' rebuttal -- The executive -- The county courts -- The amendment article -- The question of ratification.…”
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Wives without husbands marriage, desertion, & welfare in New York, 1900-1935 / by Igra, Anna R.

Table of Contents: “…They need not become a burden to the state -- The creation of an antidesertion system in New York -- Ambivalent breadwinners and the public purse -- Bread givers : from desertion to the national desertion bureau -- Desertion and the courts -- Deserted women and social welfare policy -- Epilogue: The legacy of antidesertion reform.…”
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How New York became American, 1890-1924 by Blake, Angela M.

Table of Contents: “…Reforming New York's image in the 1890s -- Tourism and New York's image in the 1890s -- Architecture, Americanism, and a "new" New York, 1900-1919 -- New York is not America : immigrants and tourists in post-World War I New York -- Brand New York : making midtown in the 1920s.…”
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Public housing that worked : New York in the twentieth century / by Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The boom years; Designs for a new metropolis; The price of design reform; The benefits of social engineering; Meeting the management challenge -- Welfare-state public housing. …”
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Leadership on the federal bench the craft and activism of Jack Weinstein / by Morris, Jeffrey Brandon, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…"All the facts of real life revealed in our work" : the "job" of a federal district judge -- The years before appointment to the bench, 1921-67 -- The political and legal environment within which Jack Weinstein judged : the nation and the district, 1967-2007 -- Characteristics of Jack Weinstein's judging -- "An activist seeker of troublesome issues" : Jack Weinstein's first decade on the bench, 1967-76 -- "Making the unequal equal through the alchemy of the law :" growing renown, 1977-86 -- "Imaginative reformer" and "vindicator of the ideal of a judge" : Jack Weinstein's work, 1987-96 -- "Under the blindfold, does justice weep?" …”
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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Readers, Libraries, and New York City Before 1911 -- Chapter 1: The New York Society Library: Books, Authority, and Publics in Colonial and Early Republican New York -- Chapter 2: Books for a Reformed Republic: The Apprentices' Library in Antebellum New York -- Chapter 3: The Past in Print: History and the Market at the New-York Historical Society Library -- Chapter 4: The Biblical Library of the American Bible Society: Evangelicalism and the Evangelical Corporation Chapter 5: Commerce and Culture: Recreation and Self-Improvement in New York's Subscription Libraries -- Chapter 6: "Men of Leisure and Men of Letters": New York's Public Research Libraries -- Chapter 7: Scholars and Mechanics: Libraries and Higher Learning in Nineteenth-Century New York -- Chapter 8: New York's Free Circulating Libraries: The Mission of the Public Library in the Gilded Age -- Chapter 9: The Founding of the New York Public Library: Public and Private in the Progressive Era -- Conclusion: New York's Public Libraries and the Elusive Reading Publics -- Works Cited -- Notes.…”
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Mobilizing the Metropolis : How the Port Authority Built New York / by Plotch, Philip Mark, 1961-, Nelles, Jen, 1979-

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