Great Books on Baltimore (Eden: loans, houses, neighborhoods)

[Infinite_heights77]

Books on Baltimore
GREAT BOOKS ON BALTIMORE

1. Alexander, Robert L. “Baltimore Row Houses of the Early Nineteenth Century.” American Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2: Fall 1975: pp 65 – 76. Print.
2. Baum, Howell S. Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2010. Print.
3. Bodine, A. Aubrey. Bodine's Baltimore. Baltimore, MD: Bodine & Associates, 1973. Print.
4. Bowditch, Eden Unger. Growing up in Baltimore: a Photographic History. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2001.
5. Crenson, Matthew A., “Roots: Baltimore's long march to the era of civil rights”. in Richard Dillworth (Ed), The City in American Political Development. New York: Routlage, 2009, pp. 200-224. Print.
6. Hayward, Mary Ellen and Charles Belfoure. The Baltimore Rowhouse. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
7. Kelly, Jacques. The Pratt Library Album: Baltimore Neighborhoods in Focus. Baltimore, MD: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1986.
8. Phillips, Christopher. Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860 (Blacks in the New World), Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: 1997.Print.
9. Pietila, Antero. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2010.
10. Power, Garrett. "Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances of 1910-1913" Maryland Law Review v.42 (1983): 289-328.
    Available at: "Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances of 1" by Garrett Power
11. Rockman, Seth. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Print.
12. Rudacille, Deborah. Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town. New York: Pantheon, 2010. Print.
13. Sewell, Jane. Medicine in Maryland: The Practice and the Profession, 1799-1999, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Print.
14. Shivers, Frank. The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, Baltimore, Maryland 21228: Johns Hopkins University Press.
15. Shopes, Linda. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History, Philadelphia, PA.: Temple University Press.
16. Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.
17. Walston, Mark. Historic Photos of Baltimore. Nashville, TN: Turner Pub., 2008.
18. Williams, Marilyn Thornton. Washing “The Great Unwashed” Public Baths in Urban America, 1840 - 1920. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1991. Print.
19. Wilkerson, Isabelle. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, New York, Random House, 2010. Print.

*There are many others.......

[Mahatma X]

For fiction Baltimore Chronicles 1-4 is a good series. It's written by Treasure Hernandez.

[dogpark]

Another JHU book, very interesting read and I am surprised it is not on this list:
Baltimore's Alley Houses: Homes for Working People since the 1780s

by Mary Ellen Hayward.

This book talks a lot about migrants and how they lived, basically a worker's part in expanding the city.

[Woodlands]

# 9 is a great book... It helped me better understand the why parts of the city are the way they are....

[Infinite_heights77]

So Woodlands, dogpark and Mahatma X are the only people who read??!!

You see what I mean?!

[rootless_in_va]

Adding to the list:

Nonfiction: "Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America" by Heather Kirn Lanier

Fiction: "Baltimore Blues" and the rest of the Tess Monaghan mystery series by Laura Lippman

[choccity]

Originally Posted by Woodlands

# 9 is a great book... It helped me better understand the why parts of the city are the way they are....

Been meaning to buy it. The book about Henrietta Lacks and JHU is very interesting as well.

[dogpark]

Originally Posted by rootless_in_va

Adding to the list:

Nonfiction: "Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America" by Heather Kirn Lanier

Fiction: "Baltimore Blues" and the rest of the Tess Monaghan mystery series by Laura Lippman

I bought Teaching in he Terrordome" when it came out on Amazon and borrowed Baltimore Blues from my dad (Laura Lippman lives in the same neighborhood, bought two of her books from her at Spoons on Cross St).

I have two copies of Pietila's Not in My Neighborhood - one I bought and one the wife bought me knowing I'd be interested. I've been meaning to donate one to the Pratt. The Pratt does accept book donations.

Speaking of the Pratt, they are great. I've requested many an esoteric book form the Pratt and gotten many inter library loans thru them, certainly a worthy organization.

[Tinawina]

Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998. Studies in Government and Public Policy. By Marion Orr.

Excellent book that really helped me understand Baltimore.

[Devout Urbanist]

Has anyone here read David Simon's Homicide? It's about the year Simon spent following Baltimore homicide detectives. I'd be curious to know what natives thought about that book. I believe it's the first book to provide a real, inside look at how those investigations unfold. I read it several years go. I remember enjoying the writing and how well Simon captured the humanity of cops, perpetrators, and victims.

BTW, I didn't know The Warmth of Other Suns had a section on Baltimore. It's been in my TBR pile for ages. Also, I hear Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer from West Baltimore who works for Atlantic Monthly, writes about growing up in his neighborhood in The Beautiful Struggle.