The 2020 Program Consisted of the following Baltimore History Evenings:
January 16, 2020
The Invention of Downtown: How Baltimore and the Other North Atlantic Cities Created the Central Business District
Presented by Charles B. Duff, president of Jubilee Baltimore, a frequent lecturer on architectural history, past president of the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, and the author of the recently published The North Atlantic Cities.
February 20, 2020
The Jones Falls Valley: Its People and the Things They Made
Presented by BCHS Board Member Nathan Dennies, Chair of the Greater Hampden Heritage Alliance, a community historic preservation organization that works to save the stories and places of Hampden and Woodberry. He works for the Baltimore Architecture Foundation and the American Institute of Architects, Baltimore Chapter, and lives in Woodberry.
March 19, 2020
Cherry Hill: Raising Successful Black Children in Jim Crow Baltimore
Presented by Linda G. Morris, with John H. Morris and Sidney Rauls Ellis. Like many other families, the Morris children and their friends spent formative years in Cherry Hill and went on to successful careers. Her book draws on happy memories, but also solid research on this once idyllic community in segregated Baltimore.
This presentation is available on the BCHS YouTube channel here.
April 16, 2020
The Lumbee Community: Revisiting the Reservation of Baltimore's Fell's Point
Ashley Minner is a community-based visual artist, an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and Professor of the Practice and folklorist in the Department of American Studies at UMBC. She is a contributor to Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City (2019)
May 21, 2020
Who Lived in Your House? Uncovering the History of a Baltimore Neighborhood
Preparing for the centennial of his North Baltimore subdivision on Cloverhill and Canterbury Roads in Tuscany-Canterbury, Josh set out to discover the history of the neighborhood. Using online resources to trace deeds and relations, Josh built family trees for the homeowners of all 84 houses. He gathered extensive biographical details of those first families and made connections with their descendants, who provided personal recollections and photos. Josh will share some of his exciting finds as well as techniques that residents of any neighborhood can use to explore the history of their homes.
This presentation is available on the BCHS YouTube channel here.
June 18, 2020
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
Baltimore was a port of entry for enslaved Africans, and it played an even larger role in the domestic slave trade.
This presentation is available for viewing on the BCHS YouTube channel here.
