The two cities project

Community differentiation in 19th century America:

 

This project is a close analysis of the people inhabiting two mid-sized American cities in the middle years of the nineteenth century. As total history, the project allows the reconstruction of the economic, cultural and political lives of the residents of those cities at that time... read more...

 

Work from the Two Cities Project is presented on this site, where you can explore Alexandria, Virginia in 1859 or Newport, Kentucky in 1874.

Produced for the Two Cities Project, March, 2005.
Donald DeBats and Sue Hesch, Department of American Studies in conjunction with Mark Lethbridge
and Jacqueline Best, Department of Geography, Population and Environmental Management,
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Funded by the Australian Research Council.