Thursday, May 19- "The Baltimore Book" event

[Bill Harvey]

    [Go to the end of this message for Linda Shopes's more detailed description of the program.]

2011 Baltimore History Evenings The Baltimore City Historical Society and the Village Learning Place will be sponsoring their third year of free evening Baltimore history presentations at the Village Learning Place, 2521 St. Paul St., Baltimore, MD 21218. Each evening begins with a reception at 7 pm, and the presentation follows at 7:30. The schedule of remaining programs is as follows:

May 19, Where Do We Go from Here? The 20th Anniversary of The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. This ground-breaking look at Baltimore labor, African-American, and women's history is still in print after 20 years! What did the book tell us about Baltimore, and what would a 21st century New Views look like? Presenters will include authors of the original New Views and people looking at the same issues anew today.

THE BALTIMORE BOOK at Temple University Press
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/516_reg.html

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Dear Friends and Colleagues:  We write to remind you of the Baltimore City Historical Society program on May 19th:  "Where Do We Go From Here? The 20th Anniversary of The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History."   Focusing on labor, community, women's and African American history, The Baltimore Book was groundbreaking in its critical approach to the social history of Baltimore when it was published in 1991; it still remains in print, is used in classrooms, and is regularly cited.  Yet much of the book is dated, many topics are not covered, and exciting new work on the city's history is being done by scholars, activists, and public historians.  So:  what would a new "new view" of local history look like?  What kind of history might be relevant to current issues in the city?  What formats might such a history take?
 
The program will bring together a panel that includes both authors from the The Baltimore Book and people doing new work on local history.  Panelists include John Bullock, assistant professor of political science at Towson University; Hampden historian Bill Harvey; Elizabeth Nix, assistant professor of history at the University of Baltimore; Edward Orser, professor emeritus of American Studies at UMBC;  Eli Pousson, field officer at Baltimore Heritage; and Linda Zeidman, professor emerita of history and economics at Essex Community College.
 
The program will take place at the Village Learning Place, 2521 St. Paul Street in Baltimore.  Reception begins at 7; program starts at 7:30.  The building is accessible.
 
Please join us in considering what a new history of Baltimore might look like.   --Linda Zeidman and Linda Shopes
 
Linda Shopes
Carlisle, PA 17015
lsh...@aol.com
717/243-4294