Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
 Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 is a non-fiction book by historians Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. Based on over twenty years of research by Burrows and Wallace it was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press and won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for History. Wallace is currently working on the second volume which will cover New York City history through World War II.The book was met with mostly laudatory reviews. In his review for The Atlantic Timothy J.