Explore Baltimore’s Culture and History
FLICKERING TREASUREs BY AMY DAVIS
Flickering Treasures is a revelatory chronicle of Baltimore’s movie theaters over the past century, eloquently told through extraordinary photographs and poignant reminiscences. Amy Davis, a Pulitzer Prize -winning photographer at the Baltimore Sun, devoted ten years to this beautiful book that pays tribute to Baltimore’s little-known theater culture.
Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theaters by Amy Davis, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017
bALTIMORE, A POLITICAL HISTORY BY Matthew a.Crenson
Charm City or Mobtown? People from Baltimore glory in its eccentric charm, small-town character, and North-cum-South culture. But for much of the nineteenth century, violence and disorder plagued the city. More recently, the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in police custody has prompted Baltimoreans—and the entire nation—to focus critically on the rich and tangled narrative of black–white relations in Baltimore, where slavery once existed alongside the largest community of free blacks in the United States.
Matthew A. Crenson, a distinguished political scientist and Baltimore native, examines the role of politics and race throughout Baltimore’s history.
Baltimore, A Political History by Matthew A. Crenson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017
Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City by Jessica Elfenbein, Thomas Hollowak, Elizabeth Nix
In 1968, Baltimore was home to a variety of ethnic, religious, and racial communities that, like those in other American cities, were confronting a quickly declining industrial base. In April of that year, disturbances broke the urban landscape along lines of race and class. This book offers chapters on events leading up to the turmoil, the riots, and the aftermath as well as four rigorously edited and annotated oral histories of members of the Baltimore community. The combination of new scholarship and first-person accounts provides a comprehensive case study of this period of civil unrest four decades later.
Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City by Jessica Elfenbein, Thomas Hollowak, Elizabeth Nix, Temple University Press, 2011
LOCAL ARCHIVES
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA)
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive (MARMIA) is dedicated to the preservation and public access of the moving images and recorded sounds of the United States’ Middle Atlantic area.
Preserve The Baltimore Uprising Archive Project
Preserve the Baltimore Uprising is a digital repository designed to preserve and make accessible original content captured and created by individual community members, grassroots organizations, and witnesses to the protests that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015.
A freely available resource for students, scholars, teachers, and the greater community, Preserve the Baltimore Uprising seeks to ensure that the historical record of these events will include diverse perspectives from people whose lives have been directly impacted by the complex events surrounding the conflicts in Baltimore.