Baltimore Histories

Our essential titles in Baltimore history from below.

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

Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman

The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland

Robert E. Shalhope

Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America

Marisela B. Gomez

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)

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

Antero Pietila

Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community

Harold A. McDougall

A New Deal for All?: Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore (Radical Perspectives)

Andor Skotnes

Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story

W. Edward Orser

Education As My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)

Jo Ann Robinson

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

Mark Reutter

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

Leonard Augsburger

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

Kenneth D. Durr (Author)

African-American Entertainment in Baltimore (Black America)

Tonya Taliaferro and Rosa Pryor-Trusty

Cherry Hill: A Brief History

Mike Mathis and Lisa C. Mangiafico

Mount Vernon Place (MD) (Images of America)

Bill Wierzalis and John P. Koontz

The Struggle and the Urban South: Confronting Jim Crow in Baltimore Before the Movement

David Taft Terry

The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk About Life, Politics, and The Revolution

Susan Elaine Day and Ta-Nehisi Coates

Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a US City

P. Nicole King (editor), Joshua C. Davis, and Marisela B. Gomez

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