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

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this n...

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The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

The Price of Freedom carefully examines how urban slavery, long neglected by historians, became an important step in the path from bonded ...

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The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland

Paradoxically, in the decades following the Revolution, slavery in Baltimore gained strength even as slaves were being freed in record num...

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Education As My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools

When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her "the mos...

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