Baltimore and Maryland

The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland

Robert E. Shalhope

Making Steel: Sparrows Point And The Rise And Ruin Of American Industrial Might

Mark Reutter

The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era

Shawn Francis Peters

The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History (Critical Perspectives on the Past)

Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman

Baltimore Then & Now

Alexander D. Mitchell IV

Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

John Waters

Pink Flamingoes and Other Filth: Three Screenplays by John Waters

John Waters

Role Models

John Waters

Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

John Waters

Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District

Peter Moskos

African-American Entertainment in Baltimore (Black America)

Tonya Taliaferro and Rosa Pryor-Trusty

Baltimore (MD) (Black America)

Philip Merrill and Uluaipou-O-Maloaiono

Industrial Baltimore (Images of America)

Tom Liebel

Druid Hill Park: The Heart of Historic Baltimore

Eden Unger Bowditch and Anne Draddy

The Gwynns Falls: Baltimore Greenway to the Chesapeake Bay

W. Edward Orser

Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story

W. Edward Orser

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American city

Antero Pietila

Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town

Deborah Rudacille

Hampden-Woodberry

Mark Chalkley

Liberation Theology Along the Potomac: Labor's Golden Rule In Early American Catholicism

Edward Terrar

We Were Free for a While: Back to Back in the Black Panther Party

Steve D. McCutchen

Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism

Howell S. Baum

Maryland's Vanishing Lives

John Sherwood

Treasure in the Cellar: A Tale of Gold in Depression-Era Baltimore

Leonard Augsburger

A Year Across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region

Bryan MacKay

The Great Baltimore Fire

Peter B. Petersen

Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland

C. Fraser Smith

Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age

Michael Olesker

You're Not Listening: Baltimore Youth Speak Out

Anna K. Stone and Cynthia Hartzler-Miller

Small Town Baltimore: An Album of Memories

Gilbert Sandler

The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality

Rhonda Y. Williams

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Wes Moore (Author)

Too Poor for Pop Culture and other essays

D. Watkins

Grace After Midnight: A Memoir

Felicia Pearson and David Ritz

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

David Simon and Edward Burns

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

David Simon

The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood

Karl Alexander (Author) and Linda Olson (Author)

Baltimore Noir

Laura Lippman

Country Walks Near Baltimore: Revised and Expanded 5th Edition

Alan Hall Fisher

50 Hikes in Maryland: Walks, Hikes & Backpacks from the Allegheny Plateau to the Atlantic Ocean, Second Edition

Leonard M. Adkins

The Slaves' Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812

Gene A. Smith

Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980

Kenneth D. Durr (Author)

The Wire

Sherryl Vint

The Beast Side: Living (And Dying) While Black in America

D. Watkins

LGBT Baltimore

Louise Parker Kelley

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

Racebrave: New and Selected Works

Karsonya Wise Whitehead

Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People Since the 1780s

Mary Ellen Hayward

Remington: The History of a Baltimore Neighborhood

Kathleen C. Ambrose

Baltimore in World War II (MD) (Images of America)

William M. Armstrong

True Laurels

Lawrence Burney

They Can't Kill Us All

Wesley Lowery

The Best Game Ever: Giants Vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL

Mark Bowden

A Beautiful Ghetto

Devin Allen, D. Watkins (Introduction), Tariq Touré (contributor), and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (contributor)

Raw Wounds

Kondwani Fidel

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)

Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography

Arthur Hobson Quinn

A Monument to Good Intentions: The Story of the Maryland Penitentiary

Wallace Shugg

Smile, Hon, You're In Baltimore!

Benn Ray (contributor) and Rahne Alexander

The Men of Mobtown

Adam Malka (Author)

The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City

Antero Pietila

Female Trouble: A Queer Film Classic

Chris Holmlund

True Laurels (Vol. 2) Issue 04

Lawrence Burney

Dildo: Masturbation for Your Brain

Nadja Martens

The Power in the Room: Radical Education Through Youth Organizing and Employment

Jay Gillen

I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

Lawrence T. Brown

The History of the Black Guerrilla Family

Gabe Morales

If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories

Ron Cassie

A History and Narrative of Muslim Americans in Baltimore, Maryland : Volume II

Rashidah R. Uqdah

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