Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is a nonfiction book written by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. It was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-514049-4). It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History.

It was written from over twenty years of research by Burrows and Wallace.

Wallace is currently working on the sequel to the book, which will span New York history up to 2008.

Elizabeth L. Bradley, who wrote a forward to "A History of New York", on the Leonard Lopate show asserted that Washington Irving made this association between Gotham and New York City in Diedrich Knickerbocker’s History of New York:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/01/22/segments/121663

Preceded by Summer for the Gods

Pulitzer Prize for History 1999

Succeeded by Freedom From Fear

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