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

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in New York City, he was the Bronx borough historian from 1996 to 2023. He is a professor of history at

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's and a member of the adjunct faculty at

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. Ultan received a B.A. in history from

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in 1959 and an M.A. 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 walking tours. His predecessor as the official Bronx Borough Historian was Dr. William A. Tieck, who served from 1980 to 1996.

Selected works

* ''Legacy of the Revolution: The Valentine-Varian House'' (1983), popular general history * ''Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough'' (2006), popular general history * ''Blacks in the Colonial Bronx Era: A Documentary History'' (2010), popular general history * ''The Bronx: The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough'' (2015), popular general history * ''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

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Podcast Professor Lloyd Ultan Bronx Borough Historian Bronx Bohemian
1938 births 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male journalists American male non-fiction writers Fairleigh Dickinson University faculty Historians from New York (state) Historians of New York City History of the Bronx Journalists from New York City Lehman College faculty Living people Writers from the Bronx {{US-historian-stub

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