Lloyd Ultan (historian)
Lloyd Ultan is a historian and author. A native of the borough of The Bronx in New York City, he was the Bronx borough historian from 1996 to 2023. He is a professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University's 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
Legacy of the Revolution: The Valentine-Varian House, popular general historyBronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough, popular general historyBlacks in the Colonial Bronx Era: A Documentary History, popular general historyThe Bronx: The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough, popular general historyThe Northern Borough: A History Of The Bronx, popular general historyThe Bronx in the frontier era: from the beginning to 1696 The Beautiful Bronx , heavily illustratedThe Birth of the Bronx, 1609–1900, popularThe Bronx in the innocent years, 1890–1925, popularThe 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.