Biography
Peter Cunningham Baldwin was born in New York City and grew up in Ithaca, New York. He was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1984. For the next seven years, he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Hartford Courant. He received his M.A. in history from Brown University in 1992 and his Ph.D. in history from Brown in 1997. From 1997 to 2001, he served as an assistant professor of history at DePaul University in Chicago. He came to the University of Connecticut in 2001.
Prof. Baldwin teaches classes in the History of Urban America, and America Since 1877. He is currently researching and writing his second book, which will examine the social history of night in American metropolitan centers from 1800 to 1930. A portion of the manuscript has been published in the Journal of Social History.
Selected Publications
"Mapping Time: Night and Day in the Nineteenth-Century City" Common-Place, vol. 6, no. 1 (October, 2005)
http://www.common-place.org/vol-06/no-01/baldwin/ Winner of
Common-Place's 2007 "Uncommon Voice Prize"
"In the Heart of Darkness: Blackouts and the Social Geography of Lighting in the Gaslight Era," Journal of Urban History 30, no. 5 (July 2004): 749-768.
Howard P. Chudacoff and Peter C. Baldwin, eds., Major Problems in American Urban and Suburban History (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005)
"How Night Air Became Good Air, 1776--1930," Environmental History 8, no. 3 (July 2003): 412-429.
"Nocturnal Habits and Dark Wisdom: The American Response to Children in the Streets at Night, 1870-1920," Journal of Social History 35, no. 3 (Spring 2002): 593-611.
Domesticating the Street: The Reform of Public Space in Hartford, 1850-1930. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. Winner, Urban History Association's 2000 prize for "Best Book in North American Urban History."
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