Lloyd Ultan (historian)

Lloyd Ultan (born 1938) is a historian, author and professor. A native of The Bronx in New York City, he has been the borough's historian since 1996. He is a professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Lehman College. He has written several books, including The Beautiful Bronx (1920-1950), The Bronx in the Innocent Years: 1890-1925, and Bronx Accent. Ultan is renowned for his walking tours. Ultan's predecessor as the official Bronx Borough Historian was Dr. William A. Tieck, who served from 1980 to 1996.

Contents

• Classic movies and more woodlawn cemetery tour with bronx historian lloyd ultan
• Lloyd ultan and shelley olson on the bronx the ultimate guide to new york city s beautiful borough
• Selected works
• References

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.