The Sunpapers Of Baltimore

Author : Frederic B Hill,Stephens Broening
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442268784

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The Life of Kings by Frederic B Hill,Stephens Broening Pdf

In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in Washington, and extended its reach around the globe. Contributors like David Simon, creator of HBO’s The Wire, and renowned political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (better known as KAL), tell what it was like to work in what may have been the last golden age of American newspapers -- when journalism still seemed like “the life of kings” that H.L. Mencken so cheerfully remembered. The writers in this volume recall the standards that made the Sun and other fine independent newspapers a bulwark of civic life for so long. Their contributions affirm that the core principles they followed are no less imperative for the new forms of journalism: a strong sense of the public interest in whose name they were acting, a reverence for accuracy, and an obligation

Author : Mark Jacob,Stephan Benzkofer
Publisher : Agate Digital
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781572844070

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything by Mark Jacob,Stephan Benzkofer Pdf

For years, the Chicago Tribune's "10 Things You Might Not Know" column has been informing and entertaining readers on a diverse range of fascinating subjects. 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything is a collection of the best of these columns, presented in a fun and easy-to-read format. This book gives readers well-researched, obscure facts on universal topics—including arts and culture, food and leisure, history, politics, science and technology, sports, holidays and religion, lifestyle, language, and more. 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything contains a plethora of surprising trivia and pertinent tidbits on so many different areas that will appeal to everyone from history buffs to sports fans to foodies, with an especially riveting look into Chicago-area history and facts. For example, in Zion, Illinois it was once not only illegal to gamble, curse, and sell alcohol and tobacco, but also to whistle on Sundays, put on plays, eat pork or oysters, spit, or wear tan-colored shoes. Some facts will make readers laugh and some will make jaws drop. This collection is a kaleidoscope of the absurd, the outrageous, and the sometimes-gruesome, making a highly entertaining mix of people, places, and things. 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything will leave readers brighter, wittier, and curious to learn more about myriad worlds they never encountered before and will never forget.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018398878

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Pdf

Author : Harold A. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4971105

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The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987 by Harold A. Williams Pdf

Author : A.S. Abell & Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Newspaper publishing
ISBN : UGA:32108003234419

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A New Home for the Sunpapers of Baltimore by A.S. Abell & Co Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1976*
Category : Advertising, Newspaper
ISBN : OCLC:182555201

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The Baltimore Sunpapers by Anonim Pdf

Author : James H. Bready
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 080185833X

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Baseball in Baltimore by James H. Bready Pdf

In Baseball in Baltimore: The First Hundred Years, James H. Bready presents a vivid and compelling portrait of the players, managers, ballparks, and games that shaped the history of the national pastime in one of America's oldest baseball towns. Packed with rare illustrations, colorful anecdotes, and fascinating details - many of them skillfully brought to life from the original box scores on preserved newspaper pages and scorecards - Baseball in Baltimore tells a story that will captivate baseball fans everywhere.

Author : Dr. Leana Wen
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250186249

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Lifelines by Dr. Leana Wen Pdf

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role—from opioid addiction to global pandemic—and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. “Public health saved your life today—you just don’t know it,” is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. Leana Wen—emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist—has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health. Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where children live does not determine whether they live.

Author : Letitia Stockett
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0801856701

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Baltimore by Letitia Stockett Pdf

A charming and anecdotal account of Baltimore history—as fresh today as it was when first published in 1928. A teacher of English and English History at the Friends School in Baltimore, Letitia Stockett was inspired to write her whimsical history of the city when a friend told her that nothing much had been done in the way of a history of Baltimore since J. Thomas Scharf's The Chronicles of Baltimore (1874). Rising to the challenge, she spent all of her spare time on the book, telling curious friends and family merely that she "had work to do." Baltimore: A Not Too Serious History was the result, a charming and anecdotal account of the city's history that is as fresh today as it was when first published in 1928. "Would you know Baltimore? Then put deliberately out of your mind the fact that the town makes more straw hats than any other city in the world. Aesthetically speaking, that is a fearsome thought. Forget, too, that Baltimore is the centre of the oyster packing industry. Worse, far worse than a straw hat is a packed oyster; Baltimoreans ought to know better. In truth they do; they export the tinned bivalve to the unsuspecting, unsophisticated Westerner. These two enterprises are worthy and profitable, but a knowledge of these facts will not help you understand this city any more truly than the study of those long lists of products once diligently conned in school gave you an inkling of Tunis, Singapore and Wilkes-Barre."—from Baltimore: A Not too Serious History

Author : Robert Davies
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612514581

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Baldwin of the Times by Robert Davies Pdf

Hanson W. Baldwin was America’s best-known military writer and analyst in the 20th century covering conflicts from World War II to the Vietnam War. He was the military editor of the New York Times for forty years and his dispatches from Guadalcanal and the Western Pacific won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1943.This first biography of this Naval Academy graduate begins with an appreciation of the human and literary values learned from his Baltimore newspaper family. His midshipman years, 1920-1924, taught him the value of concentration. After three years of active service, he chose the life of a professional writer. A few days before the 1929 stock market crash, he joined the New York Times as a reporter. His career was advanced by the patronage of the Times publisher and by the talk of another European war in 1937. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for his Guadalcanal series. After 1945, he thought the atomic bomb to be of limited use on the battlefield as well as in the politics of the Cold War. His news scoops upset many but were in keeping with his determination to tell his readers what its government was doing. His continuing criticism of Secretary McNamara’s management of the Vietnam War and the Times management’s annoyance with his pro-war position contributed to his decision to retire in March 1968. Later, he could only observe and to complain over the decline of American values and its harmful effects on the military. After his retirement he continued to write articles on military affairs for the news columns and Op-Ed page of the New York Times.

Author : Michael Olesker
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421418452

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Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore by Michael Olesker Pdf

In the author's "love letter across the generations", essays capture America's melting pot, particularly Baltimore's, in all its rollicking, good-natured, and chaotic essence. 25 halftones.

Author : Amy Davis
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781421422190

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Flickering Treasures by Amy Davis Pdf

These vintage and contemporary images of Baltimore movie palaces explore the changing face of Charm City with stories and commentary by filmmakers. Since the dawn of popular cinema, Baltimore has been home to hundreds of movie theaters, many of which became legendary monuments to popular culture. But by 2016, the number of cinemas had dwindled to only three. Many theaters have been boarded up, burned out, or repurposed. In this volume, Baltimore Sun photojournalist Amy Davis pairs vintage black-and-white images of downtown movie palaces and modest neighborhood theaters with her own contemporary color photos. Flickering Treasures delves into Baltimore’s cultural and cinematic history, from its troubling legacy of racial segregation to the technological changes that have shaped both American cities and the movie exhibition business. Images of Electric Park, the Century, the Hippodrome, and scores of other beloved venues are punctuated by stories and interviews, as well as commentary from celebrated Baltimore filmmakers Barry Levinson and John Waters. A map and timeline reveal the one-time presence of movie houses in every corner of the city, and fact boxes include the years of operation, address, architect, and seating capacity for each of the 72 theaters profiled, along with a brief description of each theater’s distinct character.

Author : Lawrence Jackson
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781644451731

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Shelter by Lawrence Jackson Pdf

*A Kirkus Best Book of 2022* A stirring consideration of homeownership, fatherhood, race, faith, and the history of an American city. In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides fodder for this captivating memoir in essays. With sardonic wit, Jackson describes his struggle to make a home in the city that had just been convulsed by the uprising that followed the murder of Freddie Gray. His new neighborhood, Homeland—largely White, built on racial covenants—is not where he is “supposed” to live. But his purchase, and his desire to pass some inheritance on to his children, provides a foundation for him to explore his personal and spiritual history, as well as Baltimore’s untold stories. Each chapter is a new exploration: a trip to the Maryland shore is an occasion to dilate on Frederick Douglass’s complicated legacy; an encounter at a Hopkins shuttle-bus stop becomes a meditation on public transportation and policing; and Jackson’s beleaguered commitment to his church opens a pathway to reimagine an urban community through jazz. Shelter is an extraordinary biography of a city and a celebration of our capacity for domestic thriving. Jackson’s story leans on the essay to contain the raging absurdity of Black American life, establishing him as a maverick, essential writer.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Clearfield
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0806359331

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African American News in the Baltimore Sun, 1870-1927 by Anonim Pdf

Founded in 1837, the Baltimore Sun published numerous articles characterizing local, national, and international events relating to and impacting people of color. Beginning with the year 1870, Mrs. Pagan has scoured the newspaper for all such accounts and summarized their contents through 1927. To quote the historian Donna T. Hollie, who wrote the Foreword, "The author has selected articles for this publication which provide an expansive overview of experiences chronicling the African diaspora. For example, the reader will learn of the evolution of 'Jim Crow' regarding housing and interstate travel. Also included are summaries covering sports, lynchings, entertainment, and political, educational, economic, and religious activities. The accomplishments of well-known activists such as Frederick Douglass, and lesser-known ones such as Henry Highland Garnet, both Maryland born, are detailed." Mrs. Pagan has also included references to marriage license applications and obituaries, the latter sometimes providing details about the decedent's family and organizational connections. Among the more than 800 entries, researchers will find references to meetings of Baltimore's Brotherhood of Liberty, the precursor to the Niagara Movement and founding of the NAACP, and efforts to install Black teachers in Baltimore's segregated schools for African Americans. This work includes a comprehensive index to names and events referenced in the chronology.

Author : Marion E. Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-18
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
ISBN : 0801855004

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Baltimore by Marion E. Warren Pdf

This volume takes a look back at the city of Baltimore. It covers American city life from the Civil War to the Great Depression: its joys and sorrows, the growth of industry and institutions, how a city worked and how it took its leisure, tranquil parks and bustling wharfs, change and continuity.