Baltimore Presentations:

Put together a five to seven minute presentation (in Word or Powerpoint) on a topic associated with the History of Baltimore in the late 19th and 20th Centuries. You can choose from the list below, or you can devise a topic of your own. (Remember to apply The Siliciano Rules to presentations.)

1. Interviews with older Gilman/ BMS 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:

a. Barry Levinson’s late 50’s Baltimore: Diner, Tin Men or Avalon
b. John Waters’ early 60’s Baltimore: Hairspray
c. Anne Tyler’s 1980’s Baltimore: The Accidental Tourist
d. David Simon’s Contemporary Baltimore: Homicide, The Corner, The Wire

3. Baltimore on the Web:

a. 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. Try "The Baltimore Fire" or "Sports in Maryland" or "Views of African American Life in Maryland" or "The Baltimore Inner Harbor's Transformation"

b. 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.

4. The Baltimore Book Topics: 

a. Camden Yards Railroad Strike of 1877
b. Evergreen House, The Garrett Family and the Founding of BMS
c. Mrs. Carey and the Founding of Gilman School
c. Hampden-Woodberry: Baltimore’s Mill Villages
d. Old West Baltimore: The Heyday of Black Baltimore's Renaissance
e. Fells Point at the Turn of the Century
f.  Flight to the Suburbs: Block Busting, Redlining and White Flight in the 1950's

5. Book Reports

a. Wised Up (2004) Charlie Wilhelm and Joan Jacobsen
b. The Accidental Tourist (1988) by Anne Tyler

6 More Interviews

a. Visit "Our Daily Bread", a Baltimore soup kitchen sponsored by Catholic Charities 
b. Visit "The Women's Industrial Exchange", a turn of the century luncheonette ; 
c. Visit "The Engineer's Club", John Work Garrett's mansion on Mt. Vernon Square; 
d. Visit "Evergreen House", John Work Garrett's mansion on Charles Street. (Garrett was the owner of the B & O railroad.)