Lloyd Ultan (born 1938) is a historian and author. A native of

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in New York City, he has been the borough's historian since 1996. He is a professor of history at

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's Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies and a member of the adjunct faculty at

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. Ultan received a

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in history from

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in 1959 and an

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in history from

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in 1960. 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

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s. His predecessor as the official Bronx Borough Historian was Dr. William A. Tieck, who served from 1980 to 1996.

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

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, 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

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