Call for Applicants: Asst Grants Manager-MD Historical Trust

Deadline: December 8

The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT), the State's historic preservation office, located within the Maryland Department of Planning (MDP), is seeking an enthusiastic and energetic individual to fill...

Posted: December 3, 2015, 1:28 AM

AMST student and City Paper intern Nate Croll

on racist vandalism and Confederate monuments in Baltimore

Someone vandalized a sculpture of a pregnant black woman at the Copycat Building, scrawling "nigger" repeatedly across her belly, her arms, her chest, her legs—and the incident has become...

Posted: November 24, 2015, 11:10 PM

Mill Stories: Deindustrialization as Public History

Michelle Stefano & Bill Shewbridge featured in Cross Ties

Public historians at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) accepted the challenge of collecting video oral histories of workers associated with Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point,...

Posted: November 21, 2015, 7:42 PM

The Last days of The Hour Haus

Droneberg & Goodrich on the end of the Hour Haus era

At midnight on Thursday, July 30th, 2015, the final amps and drum kits were reluctantly lugged out of Station North's longtime music rehearsal space, The Hour Haus.  After 25 years as a music...

Posted: July 31, 2015, 6:15 PM

The slow poisoning of Freddie Gray

by AMST lecturer Rita Turner

The life of Freddie Gray, and of so many others, was endangered many times over by numerous forms of systemic racism before it was finally taken in the custody of police – an event that has...

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:51 PM

Black and young in Baltimore: a roundtable discussion

featuring Dr. Kimberly Moffitt

For young people of color, growing up in Baltimore is often anything but Rockwellian. Most of the community lives below the poverty line and there’s a widespread distrust of law enforcement....

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:50 PM

"Baltimore riots" in The Conversation

with contributions from Kimberly Moffitt & Kate Drabinsky

On the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between 

Posted: April 29, 2015, 11:43 AM