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Baltimore Histories

Our essential titles in Baltimore history from below.

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

Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman

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

Antero Pietila

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

Leonard Augsburger

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African-American Entertainment in Baltimore (Black America)

Tonya Taliaferro and Rosa Pryor-Trusty

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

Andor Skotnes

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Baltimore Authors

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We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America

D. Watkins

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The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir

D. Watkins

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2 Parts Oxygen

Tariq Touré

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Wes Moore (Author)

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Rethinking Emílíe Frances Davis: Lesson Plans for Teaching Her Civil War Pocket Diaries

Karsonya Wise Whitehead and Conra D. Gist

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Baltimore and Maryland

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

Antero Pietila

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A Beautiful Ghetto

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

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Wes Moore (Author)

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Racebrave: New and Selected Works

Karsonya Wise Whitehead

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

Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman

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111 Places in Baltimore That You Must Not Miss

Allison Robicelli

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A Beautiful Ghetto

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

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A Brief History of Charles Village (Brief Histories)

Gregory J. Alexander and Paul K. Williams

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A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920

Dennis Patrick Halpin

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

Wallace Shugg

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

Andor Skotnes

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A. Aubrey Bodine, Baltimore Pictorialist, 1906-1970

Kathleen M. H. Ewing

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African American Community History and Entertainment in Maryland

Rosa Pryor-Trusty (Author)

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African-American Entertainment in Baltimore (Black America)

Tonya Taliaferro and Rosa Pryor-Trusty

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Art Activism : The Workbook Edition

Aaron Maybin

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Art-Activism: The Revolutionary Art, Poetry, & Reflections of Aaron Maybin

Aaron Maybin

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Art: A Sex Book

John Waters and Bruce Hainley

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

William M. Armstrong

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Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City

Jessica Elfenbein, Elizabeth Nix, and Thomas Hollowak

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Baltimore (MD) (Black America)

Philip Merrill and Uluaipou-O-Maloaiono

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Baltimore Architecture

Charles Duff and Tracey Clark

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Baltimore Bench T-Shirt

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Baltimore Civil Rights Leader Victorine Q. Adams: The Power of the Ballot

Ida E. Jones

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Baltimore Close Up

Christopher T. George

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Baltimore Noir

Laura Lippman

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Baltimore Open City

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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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Baltimore Streetcars: The Postwar Years

Herbert H. Harwood

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Baltimore Then & Now

Alexander D. Mitchell IV

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Baltimore Trails: A Guide for Hikers and Mountain Bikers

Bryan MacKay

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Baltimore Unbound: Creating a Greater Baltimore Region for the Twenty-First Century - A Strategy Report

David Rusk

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Baltimore's Historic Parks and Gardens (MD) (Images of America)

Eden Unger Bowditch

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

Mary Ellen Hayward

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Baltimore's Patterson Park (MD) (Images of America)

Tim Almaguer and Friends of Patterson Park

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Baltimore, Rising Up

Ta-Nehisi Coates (contributor), D. Watkins (contributor), and Mark Puente (contributor)

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Baltimore: A Novel

Harrison Edward Livingstone and Conservatory Press

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Baltimore: A Political History

Matthew A. Crenson

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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa and Mim Eichler Rivas

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

Kenneth D. Durr (Author)

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Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community

Harold A. McDougall

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Black Seeds

Tariq Touré (Author)

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Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998 (Studies in Government and Public Policy)

Marion Orr

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Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story

W. Edward Orser

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Bmore Art

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Bmore Art

Rebekah Kirkman

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Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism

Howell S. Baum

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Bush (zine)

Emma Mattson and Saalika Khan

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Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

John Waters

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Cherry Hill: A Brief History

Mike Mathis and Lisa C. Mangiafico

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Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore

Linda G. Morris

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Coming of Age in the Other America

Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin

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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

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Conversations with Healers: Baltimore City

Miranda Ellis Hontz

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

Peter Moskos

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Country Walks Near Baltimore: Revised and Expanded 5th Edition

Alan Hall Fisher

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Druid Hill Park: The Heart of Historic Baltimore

Eden Unger Bowditch and Anne Draddy

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Dundalk (MD) (Images of America)

Gary Helton

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Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore

David F. Gaylin

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

Jo Ann Robinson

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Everything Must Change

James "Turtle" Wells

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Fallen Angel

Thomas "C-Rock" Wallace

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Female Trouble: A Queer Film Classic

Chris Holmlund

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Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore's Forgotten Movie Theaters

Amy Davis

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Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860

Christopher Phillips

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Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age

Michael Olesker

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Glimpses of Jewish Baltimore

Gilbert Sandler

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Grace After Midnight: A Memoir

Felicia Pearson and David Ritz

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Hampden-Woodberry

Mark Chalkley

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Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets

Tongo Eisen-Martin

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Hey Cabbie ll: There's nothing more real than the streets. (Volume 2)

Mr Thaddeus N Logan

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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

David Simon

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Hummingbirds in the Trenches

Kondwani Fidel

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Industrial Baltimore (Images of America)

Tom Liebel

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It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood

Frida Berrigan

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Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore

Elisa New

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Jewish Baltimore: A Family Album

Gilbert Sandler

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John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Kathleen Waters Sander

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John Waters: Interviews

John Waters

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Jordan Year: Poems

Wallace Lane

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Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore

Michael Olesker

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Just Enough for the City

Jo'rell H. Whitfield

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Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children

Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner

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LGBT Baltimore

Louise Parker Kelley

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LONG LONELINESS IN BALTIMORE

Brendan Walsh and Willa Bickham

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Love Simply

Simply Sherri

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Make Trouble

John Waters

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

Mark Reutter

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Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther

Marshall "Eddie" Conway and Dominque Stevenson

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Maryland in Black and White: Documentary Photography from the Great Depression and World War II

Constance B. Schulz

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Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards: A Literary History with Notes on Washington Writers

Frank R. Shivers

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Middle East Baltimore Stories

SMEAC and Elizabeth Barbush

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Mobtown Massacre: Alexander Hanson and the Baltimore Newspaper War of 1812

Josh S. Cutler

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Mount Vernon Place (MD) (Images of America)

Bill Wierzalis and John P. Koontz

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Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder

John Waters

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My Baltimore Book

Becky Slogeris

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Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home

Sheri Booker

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Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home

Sheri Booker

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

Antero Pietila

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On the Wire

Linda Williams

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Paddling Maryland and Washington, DC: A Guide to the Area's Greatest Paddling Adventures

Jeff Lowman

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Perspective : Baltimore

Kyle Pompey (Author)

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Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

J. W. Ocker

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Prejudices: A Selection (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)

H. L. Mencken

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Prettyboy Reservoir, Vol. 1

Various

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Queer Joy

Marybeth Mareski

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

Marisela B. Gomez

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Raw Wounds

Kondwani Fidel

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Rebuilding Middle East Baltimore: Race and class determine 'who gets the land'

Marisela B. Gomez

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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

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Remington: The History of a Baltimore Neighborhood

Kathleen C. Ambrose

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Role Models

John Waters

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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)

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Sherrywood Forest

Kevin Sherry

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Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

John Waters

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Slanguage Arts and Griot Glimpses (Black Jesus Edition) Poems 2002-2017

Slangston Hughes

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Small Town Baltimore: An Album of Memories

Gilbert Sandler

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Stone Hill in Baltimore: Stories From a Cotton Mill Village

Guy Hollyday

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Street Legends, Vol. 2

Seth Ferranti

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Strengthening Baltimore's Neighborhoods: A Legal Handbook for Community Associations

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Tales from the Holy Land

Rafael Alvarez (Author)

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Tapping into The Wire: The Real Urban Crisis

Peter L. Beilenson, Patrick A. McGuire, and David Simon

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Tha Bloc: Words, Photographs and Baltimore City in Black White and Gray

T. P. Luce

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The 1877 Railroad Strike in Baltimore

Bill Barry

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The 2015 Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary

Baltimore Teens (Author)

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The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History

Mary Ellen Hayward and Frank R. Shivers, Jr.

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The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland

Robert E. Shalhope

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

Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman

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The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball

Bob Luke

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The Baltimore Rowhouse

Mary Ellen Hayward and Charles Belfoure

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The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities

Mary Cadenasso, S. T. Pickett, J. Morgan Grove, W. R. Burch, G. E. Machlis, and Laura A. Ogden

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The Baltimore Textbook: A Guide to Where You Live

Becky Slogeris

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

D. Watkins

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

Mark Bowden

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The Black Book: Reflections from the Baltimore Grassroots

Dayvon Love and Lawrence Grandpre

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The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball

Alejandro Danois

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

Shawn Francis Peters

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The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography

John R. Wennersten (Author)

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The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir

D. Watkins

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

David Simon and Edward Burns

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

Antero Pietila

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The Great Baltimore Fire

Peter B. Petersen

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The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America During the 1960s

Peter B. Levy (Author)

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The Gwynns Falls: Baltimore Greenway to the Chesapeake Bay

W. Edward Orser

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The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State

Patricia Fernández-Kelly

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The History of the Black Guerrilla Family

Gabe Morales

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The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper

Frederic B. Hill

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The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide

Lawrence Lanahan

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

Karl Alexander (Author) and Linda Olson (Author)

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The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1812 (Working Class in American History)

Charles G. Steffen

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The Men of Mobtown

Adam Malka (Author)

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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Wes Moore (Author)

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The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed

Elaine Eff (Author)

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

Rhonda Y. Williams

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The Power in the Room

Jay Gillen

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The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

Daniel Berrigan, Robin Andersen, and James L. Marsh

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The Unknown Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Foye, Andre Breton (contributor), and Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (contributor)

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The Wire

Sherryl Vint

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The Wire: Truth Be Told

Rafael Alvarez and David Simon

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The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters

Wes Moore

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Too Poor for Pop Culture and other essays

D. Watkins

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TORTILLAGURL

Cash.Liss

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

Leonard Augsburger

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True Laurels

Lawrence Burney

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True Laurels

Lawrence Burney

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True Laurels (Vol. 2) Issue 04

Lawrence Burney

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True Laurels Vol 1

Lawrence Burney and Kasai Rex

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True Laurels Vol 1

Lawrence Burney and Kasai Rex

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True Laurels Vol Two

Lawrence Burney and Brandon Soderberg

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Turtle Island

Kevin Sherry

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Two Baltimores

D. Watkins

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Uncommon threads: Threads that Wove the Fabric of Baltimore Jewish Life

Philip Kahn, Jr.

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Uprising In the City: Made In America

Kevin Shird

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Walking in Baltimore: an Intimate guide to the Old City

Frank R. Shivers

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Washington and Baltimore Art Deco: A Design History of Neighboring Cities

Richard Striner and Melissa Blair

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We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America

D. Watkins

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

Steve D. McCutchen

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What Does It Mean To Be Black?

Shannon Wallace

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Why Do We Kill?: The Pathology of Murder in Baltimore

Kelvin Sewell (Author) and Stephen Janis (Author)

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Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

Alan Licht

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Wised Up

Charlie Wilhelm and Joan Jacobson

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With My Head Unbowed

Lady Brion

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Woodlawn, Franklintown and Hebbville: Three Communities - Two Centuries

Woodlawn History Committee

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You Can't Stop Murder: Truths about Policing in Baltimore and Beyond

Stephen Janis (Author) and Alan Z. Forman (Author)

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You're Not Listening: Baltimore Youth Speak Out

Anna K. Stone and Cynthia Hartzler-Miller