Lloyd Ultan (historian)

Lloyd Ultan (born 1938) is a historian, author and professor. A native of the The Bronx in New York City, he has been the borough's historian since 1996.^[1] He is a professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Lehman College.^[2] He has written several books, including The Beautiful Bronx (1920-1950), The Bronx in the Innocent Years: 1890-1925, and Bronx Accent.^[3]^[4] Ultan is renowned for his walking tours.^[5]

Selected works

The Northern Borough: A History Of The Bronx (2009), popular general history
The Bronx in the frontier era: from the beginning to 1696 (1994)
The Beautiful Bronx (1920–1950) (1979), heavily illustrated
The Birth of the Bronx, 1609–1900 (2000), popular
The Bronx in the innocent years, 1890–1925 (1985), popular
The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday, 1935–1965 (1992), heavily illustrated popular history
"History of the Bronx River," Paper presented to the Bronx River Alliance, November 5, 2002 (notes taken by Maarten de Kadt, November 16, 2002), retrieved on August 29, 2008. This 2½ hour talk covers much of the early history of the Bronx as a whole, in addition to the Bronx River.

References

↑ "Bronx Borough Historian Lloyd Ultan Marks 15 Years in Office" (Press release). Bonx Borough President. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
↑ Parker, Sydney (April 4, 2010), "Bronx historian Lloyd Ultan puts the borough in perspective with books and walking tours", The Daily News, retrieved 2012-02-08
↑ Ultan, Lloyd; Unger, Barbara (2000), Bronx Accent A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0-8135-3862-9
↑ http://www.bookfinder.com/author/lloyd-ultan/
↑ http://view.fdu.edu/default.aspx?id=7044

Lloyd Ultan (historian)

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