Baltimore History Evenings, presented in partnership with the Baltimore City Historical Society, is a monthly series of presentations and discussions on Baltimore.

Baltimore History Evenings run from January to June and are held on the third Thursday of every month at from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

 

2012 Baltimore History Evenings schedule:

• January 19, 2012. Protestants & Catholics in Pre-Civil War Baltimore: A Message for Post 9/11 America? Michael S. Franch describes how antebellum Protestants and Catholics constituted separate communities. There was religious prejudice, but also reason for people of good will to be concerned about “the other.”  Every period is unique, but there are similarities to today’s America.

• February 16, 2012. Mapping Baybrook: Environmental Justice in Industrial South Baltimore. Nicole King, Assistant Professor of American Studies, UMBC, and Director, Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture,  discusses the history of the communities that make up Far South Baltimore–several of which no longer exist as residential areas.

• March 15, 2012. The “Invasion” of a Northwest Baltimore Suburb: Suburbanization, Restrictive Covenants, and Property Rights. Eric M. Daniel, co-winner of the 2010 Joseph L. Arnold Prize for Outstanding Writing on Baltimore History, looks back at a surprising issue: Could an Ashburton property-owner sell to an Italian-American family in early 20th-century Baltimore.

• April 19, 2012.  Invest in Baltimore: Baltimore Business History Through Banknotes and Stock Certificates. Russ Sears, a 30-year collector of Baltimore historical artifacts, uses his vast collection to look back at a day when chimneys belching smoke proudly signaled economic development. He gives illustrated talks to historical and collectors’ organizations and is a Maryland Humanities Council speaker.

• May 17, 2012. Jacques Kelly gives the Annual Grace Darin Lecture. Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun columnist, historian, and storyteller gives the 2012 Grace Darin Lecture, named after the woman who named Charles Village and led its efforts to find an identity and place in modern Baltimore.

• June 21, 2012.  The Rise and Fall of Hutzler’s. Michael J. Lisicky, the author Hutzler’s: Where Baltimore Shops, chronicles the 132 year rise of the family-run department store, its growth into Towson and other Maryland cities and its eventual closing.  He is also the author of Wanamaker’s: Meet Me at the Eagle.