Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am indebted to many sources of financial, intellectual, and personal support that enabled me to write this book. A Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Award facilitated a trip to the New York State Archives. The History Department , the Dean’s Office of the College of Liberal Arts, and the Faculty Research Grant Program of Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia, have contributed travel funding, course reductions, and a summer stipend. I am grateful to many historians for their suggestions and criticisms. Bruce Schulman generously offered wisdom, encouragement, and humor at all the right times. The insightful comments of Julian Zelizer, Marilyn Halter, Brooke Blower, and Thomas Whalen were most useful. As I began this project , Mike Wallace and Joshua Freeman welcomed me into the City University of New York Graduate Center Gotham Institute Postwar New York City History Symposium, where I learned more than I thought possible from all participants , but especially Samuel Zipp, Joshua Guild, and Eric Schneider. Kenneth Kusmer, Elaine Abelson, Alan Bloom, Nicolas Bloom, and Brad Hunt posed useful questions at an Organization of American Historians session and a meeting of the Urban History Association, as did everyone involved with the Cityscapes in History conference sponsored by the Center of Advanced Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. More recently, I benefited from the comments offered by Kim Sichel and Claire Dempsey at the Boston University American Conversations series House and Home in American Culture. I am grateful to Michael Price for his close reading and helpful comments on this manuscript. Readers and editors for this 276 Acknowledgments press have also offered extremely useful suggestions, as have Jonathan Bell, Tim Stanley, Katrina Gulliver and Helena Toth. Many librarians and archivists provided valuable assistance, including Susan Mitchem and Scott Bedio of the Salvation Army National Archives and Research Center in Alexandria, Virginia, Kenneth Cobb of the New York City Municipal Archive, and Ann Fuller, Caroline Hopkinson, and all the members of the reference and interlibrary loan teams of Lane Library at Armstrong. My partner, Susan Hacker, spun microfilm wheels, braved the New York Public Library photocopy pen, formatted footnotes, and listened to painfully early drafts. She did not resent the space this work occupied in our lives, and has embraced our move to Savannah with good cheer. I am forever in her debt. Family and friends were also patient with me, especially James Howard, Tanya Koukeyan, Samantha Khosla, Jason Tatlock, and Chris Hendricks. My parents, Lynn and Lola Howard, did not see this project begun, but I hope that traces of their compassionate worldview emerge in its pages. ...