Roger Lane

Roger Lane is an American historian, and Professor Emeritus at Haverford College.

Awards

• 1987 Bancroft Prize
• 1992 Urban History Association's award.

Works

• Policing the City: Boston 1822-1885, Harvard University Press, (1967).
• Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident Murder in 19th Century Philadelphia. Harvard University Press. 1979. ISBN 9780674939462. http://books.google.com/books?id=SaXAOdBJJc8C&lpg=PA6&dq=Roger%20Lane%20historian&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Roger%20Lane%20historian&f=false. 
• Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia. Harvard University Press. 1986. ISBN 9780674779785. http://books.google.com/books?id=T3V-40R8oaMC&lpg=PA177&dq=Roger%20Lane%20historian&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Roger%20Lane%20historian&f=false. 
• William Dorsey's Philadelphia Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 9780195065664. http://books.google.com/books?id=wh_3bVcn25cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Roger+Lane+historian&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Murder in America: A History. Ohio State University Press. 1997. ISBN 9780814207321. 

External links

• "Murder, Mayhem and Mystery: It's All Elemental, 'Dear Reader' in Roger Lane's New Book ", Haverford News
• "What Do Historians Have to Say About Violence?", HFG Review, Jeffrey S. Adler and Thomas W. Gallant
• PETER APPLEBOME (May 29, 1999). What Murder Says About the Society It Exists In. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/29/arts/what-murder-says-about-the-society-it-exists-in.html?pagewanted=1.