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Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests.

ABSTRACTThe tension between civic virtue and self-interest has been a central theme of three generations of American urban historians. Indeed these historians have played an important role in the struggle to build America's civic culture. Critically examining their cities in light of American ideals, they have embraced the responsibilities of citizenship and kept alive the spirit of civic virtue. This essay examines democracy in Cincinnati through the work of these urban historians and argues that Americans have dispensed with civic virtue at their own peril. The democratization of the republican ideal of citizenship remains the great, unfinished task of American civilization.

Introduction to part I -- Zane L. Miller, Fom Istanbul to Philadelphia: ideas and the urban origins of the United States -- Zane L. Miller, The resiliency of cities and the uncertain future of American civic nationalism -- Zane L. Miller, Cities, American civic nationalism, and fundamentalism -- John D. Fairfield, "The metropolitan mode of thought": Zane L. Miller and the history of ideas -- Robert B. Fairbanks, Creating cities in the post World War II southwest: the Arlington, Texas, and Mesa, Arizona, experiences -- Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Claiming space: petrified ethnics, identity, and civic space -- Charles Lester, "I see my job as helping you": Zane L. Miller the scholar, mentor, and friend -- Larry Bennett, Working with Zane Miller -- Appendix: A Zane L. Miller timeline and slected bibliography -- Contributors.