User:Mapsmo/Peter Hales

Peter Hales (publishing also as Peter B. Hales and Peter Bacon Hales) is a photographer and writer. He is a faculty member in the Art History Department of the University of Illinois, Chicago. His most notable books have been Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 (1984), and Atomic Spaces:  Living on the Manhattan Project (1997), which was winner of the Herbert Hoover Prize in American History and runner-up for the Francis Parkman Prize in 1998. He is founding Director of the American Studies Institute at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is also the creator of two web-based public history projects, The Chicago Architecture Imagebase, developed in collaboration with his colleague, the architectural historian Robert Bruegmann; and Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb.

Partial Bibliography

 * Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915.Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1984.


 * William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988.


 * Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997.


 * Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939. Albuquerque, N.M.: The University of New Mexico Press, 2007.