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About the Author

Image credit: Margaret Garb [credit: American Historical Association]

Obras de Margaret Garb

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1962
Data de falecimento
2018-12-15
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Local de falecimento
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Locais de residência
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Educação
University of Vermont
University of California, San Diego
Columbia University
Ocupação
historian
professor of history
journalist
prison reformer
Relacionamentos
Pegg, Mark Gregory (husband)
Foner, Eric (teacher)
Organizações
Washington University in St. Louis
Premiações
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (fellow)
Collegium de Lyon (fellow)
Fulbright Fellowship
Pequena biografia
Margaret Garb was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and raised in an 18th-century farmhouse in Buckingham Township, Pennsylvania. Her father, who served as a judge, was passionate about prison reform, especially for young offenders, and her mother was a reproductive rights activist. She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris before earning a bachelor’s degree in comparative religion from the University of Vermont. She then worked as a reporter in Chicago, on the police beat, and later wrote for The New York Times, among others. She earned her master’s degree in history from the University of California, San Diego, and her doctorate from Columbia University in New York, where she studied with Eric Foner. She joined the Arts & Sciences faculty of Washington University in St. Louis in 2001, teaching courses on the American city and the history of poverty, race, and social reform. She also co-directed Wash U.'s Prison Education Program. Her numerous publications included the books City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform, Chicago 1871-1919 (2005) and Freedom’s Ballot: African-American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration (2014). She held fellowships at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Collegium de Lyon in France. She also won a Fulbright Fellowship to study in the Philippines, though her final illness prevented her from going. In 2017, she was featured on C-SPAN’s "Lectures in History" program, discussing the birth of the skyscraper. She was married to Mark Gregory Pegg, also a professor of history at Wash U., with whom she had a daughter. She died of cancer at age 56 in 2018.

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The late Maggie Garb was probably a better writer than I deserved editing a newspaper real estate section, but I indulged her interest in the evolution of Chicago neighborhoods. Garb left freelance writing for academia, breaking ground with this history of homeownership after the Chicago fire. Real estate then was prone to speculation and by no means an assured path to wealth. But immigrant families saw it as a security they could borrow against, carpenters found a good living as small-time builders, and developers learned how efficiency and marketing could scale their business. As the city grew, government set winners and losers early on by where they extended sewer lines, health reformers saw the move from tenements to tracts as unalloyed public good, and patterns of segregation began to set in place. With wealth inequality growing wider, it's fascinating to see how the gap opened up, and the progress of home ownership toward its hallowed position.… (mais)
 
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rynk | Jul 11, 2021 |

Estatísticas

Obras
2
Membros
17
Popularidade
#654,391
Resenhas
1
ISBNs
5