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Baltimore Histories
Our essential titles in Baltimore history from below.
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and The Revolution
Susan Elaine Day
and
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
Kenneth D. Durr (Author)
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American city
Antero Pietila
Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a US City
P. Nicole King (editor)
,
Joshua C. Davis
, and
Marisela B. Gomez
Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America
Marisela B. Gomez
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Baltimore Authors
The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir
D. Watkins
Knocking the Hustle
Lester K. Spence (Author)
The Antiracist: How to Start the Conversation about Race and Take Action
Kondwani Fidel
and
Devin Allen (Foreword)
The Beast Side: Living (And Dying) While Black in America
D. Watkins
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
D. Watkins
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Baltimore and Maryland
Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
Kenneth D. Durr (Author)
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American city
Antero Pietila
I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
Baynard Woods
and
Brandon Soderberg
The Beast Side: Living (And Dying) While Black in America
D. Watkins
A Beautiful Ghetto
Devin Allen
,
D. Watkins (Introduction)
,
Tariq Touré (contributor)
, and
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (contributor)
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All titles in this section
111 Places in Baltimore That You Must Not Miss
Allison Robicelli
3 Dot Zine Issue 1
Devin Morris
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Baltimore: Including Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford, and Howard Counties
Allison Sturm
A Beautiful Ghetto
Devin Allen
,
D. Watkins (Introduction)
,
Tariq Touré (contributor)
, and
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (contributor)
A Brief History of Charles Village (Brief Histories)
Gregory J. Alexander
and
Paul K. Williams
A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920
Dennis Patrick Halpin
A History and Narrative of Muslim Americans in Baltimore, Maryland : Volume II
Rashidah R. Uqdah
A History and Narrative of Muslim Americans in Baltimore, MD from 1945-2000
Imam Wali Muhammad Uqdah
and
Rashidah R. Uqdah
A Monument to Good Intentions: The Story of the Maryland Penitentiary
Wallace Shugg
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Dawidziak
A New Deal for All?: Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore (Radical Perspectives)
Andor Skotnes
A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
Jane Berger
A Place for Memory: Baltimore's Historic Laurel Cemetery
Isaac Shearn
and
Elgin Klugh
A. Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore Pictorialist, 1906-1970
Kathleen M. H. Ewing
African American Community History and Entertainment in Maryland
Rosa Pryor-Trusty (Author)
African-American Entertainment in Baltimore (Black America)
Tonya Taliaferro
and
Rosa Pryor-Trusty
Al Sadu of Life
Aisha Alfadhalah
All the Fighting Parts
Hannah V. Sawyerr
Art Activism : The Workbook Edition
Aaron M. Maybin
Art-Activism: The Revolutionary Art, Poetry, & Reflections of Aaron Maybin
Aaron M. Maybin
Art: A Sex Book
John Waters
and
Bruce Hainley
Baltimore in World War II (MD) (Images of America)
William M. Armstrong
Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City
Jessica Elfenbein
,
Elizabeth Nix
, and
Thomas Hollowak
Baltimore (MD) (Black America)
Philip Merrill
and
Uluaipou-O-Maloaiono
Baltimore Architecture
Charles Duff
and
Tracey Clark
Baltimore Bench T-Shirt
Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot
Ida E. Jones
Baltimore Close Up
Christopher T. George
Baltimore Lives: The Portraits of John Clark Mayden
John Clark Mayden
Baltimore Noir
Laura Lippman
Baltimore Open City
Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a US City
P. Nicole King (editor)
,
Joshua C. Davis
, and
Marisela B. Gomez
Baltimore Streetcars: The Postwar Years
Herbert H. Harwood
Baltimore Then & Now
Alexander D. Mitchell IV
Baltimore Trails: A Guide for Hikers and Mountain Bikers
Bryan MacKay
Baltimore Unbound: Creating a Greater Baltimore Region for the Twenty-First Century - A Strategy Report
David Rusk
Baltimore's Historic Parks and Gardens (MD) (Images of America)
Eden Unger Bowditch
Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People Since the 1780s
Mary Ellen Hayward
Baltimore's Patterson Park (MD) (Images of America)
Tim Almaguer
and
Friends of Patterson Park
Baltimore, Rising Up
Ta-Nehisi Coates (contributor)
,
D. Watkins (contributor)
, and
Mark Puente (contributor)
Baltimore: A Novel
Harrison Edward Livingstone
and
Conservatory Press
Baltimore: A Political History
Matthew A. Crenson
Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
and
Mim Eichler Rivas
Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
Kenneth D. Durr (Author)
Birthing A New
Destinii Williams
Black Baltimore, 1820-1870
Ralph Clayton
Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community
Harold A. McDougall
Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
D. Watkins
Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
D. Watkins
Black Hero: The Mixtape
Jacob Mayberry (Author)
Black Seeds
Tariq Touré (Author)
Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998 (Studies in Government and Public Policy)
Marion Orr
Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story
W. Edward Orser
Bmore Art
Bmore Art
Rebekah Kirkman
Bmore Art: Issue Eight: Archive
Michael Anthony Farley
,
Devin Allen
, and
Brandon Soderberg
BoOTS: Liberation in the Masses and in the Margins
Eric Jackson
Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism
Howell S. Baum
Bush (zine)
Emma Mattson
and
Saalika Khan
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
John Waters
Cash for Blood: The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade
Ralph Clayton
Cherry Hill: A Brief History
Mike Mathis
and
Lisa C. Mangiafico
Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore
Linda G. Morris
Colors Of The City
Aaron M. Maybin
Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore beyond John Waters and The Wire
Mary Rizzo
Coming of Age in the Other America
Stefanie DeLuca
,
Susan Clampet-Lundquist
, and
Kathryn Edin
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Conversations with Healers: Baltimore City
Miranda Ellis Hontz
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
Peter Moskos
Country Walks Near Baltimore: Revised and Expanded 5th Edition
Alan Hall Fisher
Druid Hill Park: The Heart of Historic Baltimore
Eden Unger Bowditch
and
Anne Draddy
Dundalk (MD) (Images of America)
Gary Helton
Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore
David F. Gaylin
Education As My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
Jo Ann Robinson
Everything Must Change
James "Turtle" Wells
Fallen Angel
Thomas "C-Rock" Wallace
Female Trouble: A Queer Film Classic
Chris Holmlund
Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore
Nicole Fabricant
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Wes Moore
and
Erica L. Green
Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters
Amy Davis
Freaky Darlings
Simply Sherri
Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860
Christopher Phillips
Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age
Michael Olesker
Glimpses of Jewish Baltimore
Gilbert Sandler
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
Felicia Pearson
and
David Ritz
Growing Up Barksdale: A True Baltimore Story
Dante Barksdale
and
Grace Kearney (co-author)
Hampden-Woodberry
Mark Chalkley
Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Hey Cabbie ll: There's nothing more real than the streets. (Volume 2)
Mr Thaddeus N Logan
Home Front Baltimore: An Album of Stories from World War II
Gilbert Sandler
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simon
Hummingbirds in the Trenches
Kondwani Fidel
I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad
Baynard Woods
and
Brandon Soderberg
If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories
Ron Cassie
Industrial Baltimore (Images of America)
Tom Liebel
Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
Baynard Woods
Inheritance: An Autobiography of Whiteness
Baynard Woods
It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood
Frida Berrigan
Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore
Elisa New
Jewish Baltimore: A Family Album
Gilbert Sandler
John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Kathleen Waters Sander
John Waters: Interviews
John Waters
Jordan Year: Poems
Wallace Lane
Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore
Michael Olesker
Just Enough for the City
Jo'rell H. Whitfield
Kings of B'More
R. Eric Thomas
Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Gerald Markowitz
and
David Rosner
LGBT Baltimore
Louise Parker Kelley
Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism
Gregory Smithsimon
Love Simply
Simply Sherri
Make Trouble
John Waters
Making Steel: Sparrows Point And The Rise And Ruin Of American Industrial Might
Mark Reutter
Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
Marshall "Eddie" Conway
and
Dominque Stevenson
Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
Marshall "Eddie" Conway
Maryland in Black and White: Documentary Photography from the Great Depression and World War II
Constance B. Schulz
Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards: A Literary History with Notes on Washington Writers
Frank R. Shivers
Middle East Baltimore Stories
SMEAC and Elizabeth Barbush
Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812
Josh S. Cutler
Mount Vernon Place (MD) (Images of America)
Bill Wierzalis
and
John P. Koontz
Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
John Waters
Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball
Muggsy Bogues
and
Jake Uitti
My Baltimore Book
Becky Slogeris
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
Sheri Booker
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
Sheri Booker
No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
Devin Allen
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American city
Antero Pietila
On Such a Full Sea
Chang-Rae Lee
On the Wire
Linda Williams
Paddling Maryland and Washington, DC: A Guide to the Area's Greatest Paddling Adventures
Jeff Lowman
Perspective : Baltimore
Kyle Pompey (Author)
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
J. W. Ocker
Prejudices: A Selection (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
H. L. Mencken
Prettyboy Reservoir, Vol. 1
Various
Queer Joy
Marybeth Mareski
Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America
Marisela B. Gomez
Raw Wounds
Kondwani Fidel
Reasons Why I Love My Hair
Aaron M. Maybin
Rebuilding Middle East Baltimore: Race and class determine 'who gets the land'
Marisela B. Gomez
REDLINES: Baltimore 2028
Jason T. Harris
,
Maya Lynn Harris
,
Dirk Joseph
,
Marialuz Castro- Johnson
,
Sierra McCleary Harris
,
Devlon Waddell
,
Kenisha Groomes- Faulk
,
Mirlande Jean- Gilles
,
Fernando Quijano III
,
Alexis Skinner
,
Indirah Estelle
, and
Tonika Berkley
Remington: The History of a Baltimore Neighborhood
Kathleen C. Ambrose
Role Models
John Waters
Science for the Sustainable City: Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
Steward T. A. Pickett (Editor)
,
Christopher M. Swan (Editor)
,
J. Morgan Grove (20703) [1 title(s)] (Editor)
,
Elena G. Irwin (28212) [0 title(s)] (Editor)
,
Emma J. Rossi (28213) [0 title(s)] (Editor)
, and
Christopher M. Swan (28214) [0 title(s)] (Editor)
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
Seth Rockman (Author)
Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore
Lawrence Jackson
Sherrywood Forest
Kevin Sherry
Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
John Waters
Slanguage Arts and Griot Glimpses (Black Jesus Edition) Poems 2002-2017
Slangston Hughes
Slavery, Slaveholding, and the Free Black Population of Antebellum Baltimore
Ralph Clayton
Small Town Baltimore: An Album of Memories
Gilbert Sandler
Somewhere Through the Haze
Analysis
Stone Hill in Baltimore: Stories From a Cotton Mill Village
Guy Hollyday
Stop the Road: Stories from the Trenches of Baltimore's Road Wars
E. Evans Paull
Street Legends, Vol. 2
Seth Ferranti
Strengthening Baltimore's Neighborhoods: A Legal Handbook for Community Associations
Tales from the Holy Land
Rafael Alvarez (Author)
Tapping into The Wire: The Real Urban Crisis
Peter L. Beilenson
,
Patrick A. McGuire
, and
David Simon
Tha Bloc: Words, Photographs and Baltimore City in Black White and Gray
T. P. Luce
The 1877 Railroad Strike in Baltimore
Bill Barry
The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary
Baltimore Teens (Author)
The Antiracist: How to Start the Conversation about Race and Take Action
Kondwani Fidel
and
Devin Allen (Foreword)
The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History
Mary Ellen Hayward
and
Frank R. Shivers, Jr.
The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland
Robert E. Shalhope
The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
Elizabeth Fee
,
Linda Shopes
, and
Linda Zeidman
The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball
Bob Luke
The Baltimore Rowhouse
Mary Ellen Hayward
and
Charles Belfoure
The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
Mary Cadenasso
,
Steward T. A. Pickett
,
J. Morgan Grove
,
W. R. Burch
,
G. E. Machlis
, and
Laura A. Ogden
The Baltimore Textbook: A Guide to Where You Live
Becky Slogeris
The Beast Side: Living (And Dying) While Black in America
D. Watkins
The Best Game Ever: Giants Vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL
Mark Bowden
The Black Book: Reflections from the Baltimore Grassroots
Dayvon Love
and
Lawrence Grandpre
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
Lawrence T. Brown
The Black Cell
Wendy Shaia
The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball
Alejandro Danois
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and The Revolution
Susan Elaine Day
and
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era
Shawn Francis Peters
The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography
John R. Wennersten (Author)
The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir
D. Watkins
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
David Simon
and
Edward Burns
The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City
Antero Pietila
The Great Baltimore Fire
Peter B. Petersen
The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America During the 1960s
Peter B. Levy (Author)
The Gwynns Falls: Baltimore Greenway to the Chesapeake Bay
W. Edward Orser
The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
Patricia Fernández-Kelly
The History of the Black Guerrilla Family
Gabe Morales
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper
Frederic B. Hill
The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide
Lawrence Lanahan
The Long Loneliness in Baltimore: Stories Along the Way
Brendan Walsh
and
Willa Bickham
The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
Karl Alexander (Author)
and
Linda Olson (Author)
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
Chris Wilson
and
Bret Witter
The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812 (Working Class in American History)
Charles G. Steffen
The Men of Mobtown
Adam Malka (Author)
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Wes Moore (Author)
The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed
Elaine Eff (Author)
The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality
Rhonda Y. Williams
The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Penguin Classics)
Edgar Allan Poe
and
J. Gerald Kennedy
The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment
Jay Gillen
The Struggle and the Urban South: Confronting Jim Crow in Baltimore Before the Movement
David Taft Terry
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
Daniel Berrigan
,
Robin Andersen
, and
James L. Marsh
The Unheard: Students' and teachers' perspectives on The Baltimore Uprising and what is NOT being told.
The Unknown Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
,
Raymond Foye
,
Andre Breton (contributor)
, and
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (contributor)
The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood
Eva Rosen
The Wire
Sherryl Vint
The Wire: The Complete Visual History
D. Watkins
and
David Simon (Foreword)
The Wire: Truth Be Told
Rafael Alvarez
and
David Simon
The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters
Wes Moore
They Killed Freddie Gray: The Anatomy of a Police Brutality Cover-up
Justine Barron
Too Poor for Pop Culture and other essays
D. Watkins
TORTILLAGURL
Cash.Liss
Treasure in the Cellar: A Tale of Gold in Depression-Era Baltimore
Leonard Augsburger
True Laurels
Lawrence Burney
True Laurels
Lawrence Burney
True Laurels (Vol. 2) Issue 04
Lawrence Burney
True Laurels Vol 1
Lawrence Burney
and
Kasai Rex
True Laurels Vol 1
Lawrence Burney
and
Kasai Rex
True Laurels Vol Two
Lawrence Burney
and
Brandon Soderberg
Tunnel Maze
Simply Sherri
Turtle Island
Kevin Sherry
Two Baltimores
D. Watkins
Uncommon threads: Threads that Wove the Fabric of Baltimore Jewish Life
Philip Kahn, Jr.
Uprising In the City: Made In America
Kevin Shird
Walking in Baltimore: an Intimate guide to the Old City
Frank R. Shivers
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories
Cookie Mueller
Washington and Baltimore Art Deco: A Design History of Neighboring Cities
Richard Striner
and
Melissa Blair
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
Justin Fenton
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption
Justin Fenton
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
D. Watkins
We Were Free for a While: Back to Back in the Black Panther Party
Steve D. McCutchen
West Baltimore Ruins
Shae McCoy
What Does It Mean To Be Black?
Shannon Wallace
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Carmelo Anthony
and
D. Watkins
Why Do We Kill?: The Pathology of Murder in Baltimore
Kelvin Sewell (Author)
and
Stephen Janis (Author)
Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Alan Licht
Wised Up
Charlie Wilhelm
and
Joan Jacobson
With My Head Unbowed
Lady Brion
Woodlawn, Franklintown and Hebbville: Three Communities - Two Centuries
Woodlawn History Committee
You Can't Stop Murder: Truths about Policing in Baltimore and Beyond
Stephen Janis (Author)
and
Alan Z. Forman (Author)
You're Not Listening: Baltimore Youth Speak Out
Anna K. Stone
and
Cynthia Hartzler-Miller
You're Not Listening: Baltimore Youth Speak Out
Cynthia Hartzler-Miller
and
Anna K. Stone
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