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

Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman

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Baltimore has a long, colorful history that traditionally has been focused on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. The Baltimore Book is both a history of "the other Baltimore" and a tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African American, and women's history. The book grew out of a popular local bus tour conducted by public historians, the People's History Tour of Baltimore, that began in 1982. This book records and adds sites to that tour; provides maps, photographs, and contemporary documents; and includes interviews with some of the uncelebrated people whose experiences as Baltimoreans reflect more about the city than Francis Scott Key ever did.

The tour begins at the B&O Railroad Station at Camden Yards, site of the railroad strike of 1877, moves on to Hampden-Woodbury, the mid–19th century cotton textile industry's company town, and stops on the way to visit Evergreen House and to hear the narratives of ex-slaves. We travel to Old West Baltimore, the late 19th–century center of commerce and culture for the African American community; Fells Point; Sparrows Point; the suburbs; Federal Hill; and Baltimore's "renaissance" at Harborplace. Interviews with community activists, civil rights workers, Catholic Workers, and labor union organizers bring color and passion to this historical tour. Specific labor struggles, class and race relations, and the contributions of women to Baltimore's development are emphasized at each stop.

ISBN 9781566391849
List price $35.95
Publisher Temple University Press
Year of publication 1993
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One of our favorite talks we've helped organize....

December 15, 2013

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Here, David Harvey, speaking at the opening event of the 2009 "City From Below" conference, revisits his canonical essay on Baltimore urban history "A View From Federal Hill."

The essay appeared in The Baltimore Book, one of our all-time best sellers and still one of the best introductions to the people's history of Baltimore.

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