Directions:

Put together a three to five minute presentation (in Google Slides) on a topic associated with the History of Baltimore in the late 19th and 20th Centuries. 

• You can choose a to from the list below, or you can devise a topic of your own. 
• You can collaborate with a classmate if you wish.
• Include a short introductory video to your presentation either from the internet or one that you have recorded yourself.
• Include relevant pictures, maps or other graphics that you can use to illustrate your presentation.
• Include links to internet articles and sites which your classmates can visit if they want to learn more about your topic.
• Include an interview with someone that you record in video with your cell phone, edit, and then upload to YouTube so that it can be inserted into your presentation.
• Create a Works Cited Page..

1. Interviews with older Gilman/ BMS/ RPCS Staff who are lifelong Baltimoreans.

• Chat with an older Gilman, BMS or RPCS faculty or staff member about their lives, where they grew up, and the changes they have seen take place in Baltimore over the years.

2. Baltimore on Film:

• Barry Levinson’s late 50’s Baltimore: Diner, Tin Men or Avalon
• John Waters’ early 60’s Baltimore: Hairspray: the movie, the Broadway musical, the movie of the musical
  
• Anne Tyler’s 1980’s Baltimore: A Tour of Anne Tyler's Baltimore;  The Accidental Tourist
• David Simon’s Contemporary Baltimore: Bowden, "The Angriest Man In Television" (2008) The Atlantic; T.V. Series:  Homicide: Life on the Streets (1993-99), The Corner (2000), or The Wire (2002-08)
  

• Find information about when your neighborhood was founded and how it developed. Talk with a family member, neighbor or friend of the family about how the neighborhood has changed over the years.
  
• Roland Park History; Then and Now: Roland Park; Wikipedia
• Ruxton-Riderwood-Lake Roland History
  

4. Baltimore History on the Web:

• Explore the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage on the web  and devise a presentation from its list trove of information. They have an enormous archive of photos and documents on many Baltimore topics.
  
•  "The Baltimore Fire"
  
• "Sports in Maryland"
  
• "Views of African American Life in Maryland"
  
• "The Baltimore Inner Harbor's Transformation"
• The Uprising After Freddie Gray's Death
• Explore the Baltimore City Historical Society on the web (even visit it in person!) and devise a presentation from its library of information. Try Baltimore Architecture: Then and Now.
• Mrs. Carey and the Founding of Gilman School

4. The Baltimore Book Topics:

• Camden Yards Railroad Strike of 1877 by Sylvia Gilbert
• Evergreen House, The Garrett Family and the Founding of BMS by Elizabeth Fee
• Hampden-Woodberry: Baltimore’s Mill Villages by Bill Harvey
• Old West Baltimore: African-American Culture and the Struggle for Equality by Karen Olson
  
• Fells Point : Community and COnflict in a Working-Class Neighborhood by Linda Shopes
• Flight to the Suburbs: Block Busting, Redlining and White Flight in the 1950's by W. Edward Research one ofOrser

• Listen to and report on one of the podcasts created by Aaron Henkin for his WYPR series on Baltimore neighborhoods, Out of the Blocks.

6. Baltimore Writers:

• Research and provide an overview of the career of one of the following Baltimore writers:
  

• Russell Baker
• James M. Cain
• Countee Cullen
• John Dos Passos
• Frederick Douglass
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Edith Hamilton
• Dashiell Hammett
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Sidney Lanier
• Murray Kempton
• Francis Scott Key
• Barry Levinson
• Walter Lord
• H.L.Mencken
• Otto Mergenthaler
• Christopher Morley
• Ogden Nash
• Frank O'Hara
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Katherine Anne Porter
• Emily Post
• Dudley Randall
• James Ryder Randall
• Lizette Woodworth Reese
• Adrienne Rich
• Karl Shapiro
• Upton Sinclair
• Gertrude Stein

6.  More Interviews:

• Visit "Our Daily Bread", a Baltimore soup kitchen sponsored by Catholic Charities 
  
• Visit "The Women's Industrial Exchange", a turn of the century luncheonette ; 
  
• Visit "The Engineer's Club", John Work Garrett's mansion on Mt. Vernon Square; 
  
• Visit "Evergreen House", John Work Garrett's mansion on Charles Street. (Garrett was the owner of the B & O railroad.)
• Visit and Report on one of the following Historic Sites in and around Baltimore
  
  • Fort McHenry
  • B & O Railroad Museum
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry
  • Edgar Allen Poe House and Museum
  • Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption
  • Star Spangled Flag House
  • Washington Monument
  • Great Blacks in Wax Museum
  • USS Constellation
  • Presidents Street Station
  • Emerson Bromo Seltzer Tower
  • Westminster Buying Grounds
  • Greenmount Cemetery
  • Phoenix Shot Tower
  • Carroll Mansion (Baltimore)
  • Streetcar Museum
  • Homewood Museum
  • Bab Ruth Birthplace and Museum
  • Hampton Mansion National Historic Site
  • Jewish Museum of Maryland (Lloyd Street Synagogue)
  • Geppi’s Entertainment Museum
  • Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Walter’s Art Gallery
  • Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African- American History
  • Mount Clare Museum House
  • Thomas Stone National Historic Site
  • Sotterly Plantation National Historic Landmark
  • Antietam National Battlefield
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime History Museum (St. Michaels)
  • Paca House and Garden (closed Jan. and Feb.)
  • Chesapeake Bay Bridge
  • Ladew Gardens
  • Monocacy National Battlefield
  •  Historic Jerusalem Mill Village
  • National Cryptologic Museum
  • National Museum of Civil war Medicine
  • Eubie Blake Cultural Center
  • The Music Hall, formerly the Lyric Opera House, now the Modell Performing Arts Center
  • St. Mary’s City (first settlement in MD)
  • Fort Frederick 
  • Air and Space Museum
  • The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
  • Maryland State House (Annapolis)
  • Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center
  • H.L. Mencken House
  • Maryland Historical Society