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Garment Industry Sweatshops in Baltimore at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

"A Kind and Benevolent Gentleman": Jacob I. Cohen Jr.'s Fight for Jewish Political Rights in Maryland

Baltimore and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877

How Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleetwood Spent His 24th Birthday While in the Union Army

Railroad Infrastructure and the Pratt Street Riot of 1861

Hope H. Slatter’s Presidential Pardon and the Erasure of Black Lives

City of Brick: Bricks and Early Baltimore

“Every Day Is a Membership Day”: Lillie Carroll Jackson's Baltimore NAACP Membership Drives

Juanita Jackson Mitchell’s Expansive NAACP Role: From Baltimore to National

Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Virginia Jackson Kiah, and the Baltimore City-Wide Young People’s Forum

The Baltimore Black Sox, the American Negro League, and the Onset of the Great Depression, 1929-1930

Baltimore Slave Trader Austin Woolfolk’s Assault on Abolitionist Benjamin Lundy and the Trial That Followed, 1827

Fugitive Black Radical Self-Liberators Who Lived in Antebellum Baltimore

William Watkins, Sr., the Anti-Colonizationist Struggle, and Education in Antebellum Black Baltimore

The Role of the Almshouse in Early Republic and Antebellum Baltimore

“Baltimore Buzz”: The Life and Impact of Black Baltimorean Musician Eubie Blake

Becoming “The Monumental City”: The Story of Baltimore’s Washington Monument

Julia Emory, Baltimorean Women’s Suffrage Activist

“Why does Franklin/Mulberry need to be an expressway at all?”: Baltimore’s Highway to Nowhere

Baltimore Blockbusting and American Racial Capitalism, 1944-1968

Harry Sythe Cummings: Relentless Advocate for Black Empowerment and Possibility in Baltimore, 1866-1917

Frank Robinson, Baseball Integration, and the 1966 World Series Champion Baltimore Orioles

How the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Shaped Baltimore’s European Immigration Histories

Race, Gender, and Class at Baltimore’s Lexington Market, 1803-2023

Lumbee Community Histories of Baltimore City

Henrietta Lacks, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Baltimore Racial Histories of Medicine

Rethinking Baltimore's July Fourth: Anti-Segregation Protests at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, 1963

Baltimore LGBTQIA+ Histories and the Peabody Ballroom Oral History Interviews: Part Three

Baltimore LGBTQIA+ Histories and the Peabody Ballroom Oral History Interviews: Part Two

Baltimore LGBTQIA+ Histories and the Peabody Ballroom Oral History Interviews: Part One

Revisiting the "Baltimore '68" Oral History Interviews: Part Four

Revisiting the "Baltimore '68" Oral History Interviews: Part Three

Revisiting the "Baltimore '68" Oral History Interviews: Part Two

Revisiting the "Baltimore '68" Oral History Interviews: Part One

Reckoning with Baltimore's Role in the Domestic Slave Trade

Ford’s Theater and the Struggle for Postwar Civil Rights in Baltimore City

Mary K. Goddard: Late-Eighteenth Century Baltimore’s Newspaper Publisher, Printer, and Postmaster Extraordinaire

Intertwined Histories of Courthouses and Black Legal Rights in Baltimore, 1770-1900

Historicizing Harborplace: A History of Local Exclusion and the Future of the Project

John H. Murphy Sr. and the Early History of the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper

Slavery and Apprenticeship in the Making of the Flag That Inspired the National Anthem

Public History, Industrial Capitalism, and the Presence of Ships in Baltimore

"The Standard": Baltimore’s Historical Relationship with Its Standard Oil Skyscraper

Justice from Baltimore: Thurgood Marshall's Story through the Lens of His Hometown

Maryland Civil War Memory at Baltimore City’s Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument

What Does Maryland Penitentiary's Demolition Mean for Its History?

Druid Hill Pool No. 2: Memorializing the One Public Pool for Black Residents of Segregation-Era Baltimore

Fells Point Firebrand: Why Every Song Billie Holiday Sang Was Radical

Edgar Allan Poe and Edwin, the Enslaved Person He Sold