Lloyd Ultan (historian)
Lloyd Ultan is a historian and author. 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's Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies and a member of the adjunct faculty at Lehman College. Ultan received a B.A. in history from Hunter College in 1959 and an M.A. in history from Columbia University in 1960.
He has written several books, including The Beautiful Bronx , 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
- The Northern Borough: A History Of The Bronx, popular general history
- The Bronx in the frontier era: from the beginning to 1696
- The Beautiful Bronx , heavily illustrated
- The Birth of the Bronx, 1609–1900, popular
- The Bronx in the innocent years, 1890–1925, popular
- The Bronx: It Was Only Yesterday, 1935–1965, heavily illustrated popular history
- Paper presented to the Bronx River Alliance, November 5, 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.
