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

Shopes, L

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877228175 ISBN 13: 9780877228172

Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S., 1991

Synopsis

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. In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth Fee is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management of The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Linda Shopes is Associate Historian at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Linda Zeidman is Professor of History and Economics at Essex Community College. Contributors: Sylvia Gillett, Bill Harvey, Karen Olson, JoAnn E. Argersinger, Roderick Ryon, Eric Hallengren, W. Edward Orser, David Harvey, and the editors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877228175
• ISBN 13: 9780877228172
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 488