A Place Called Poppleton: Investigating the Slow Violence of Redevelopment in West Baltimore (Journal of Urban History, Dec 2025)
A collective narrative investigation of bad development.
How can researchers and residents work together to build collective power and fight the displacement of extractive development? A collective narrative investigation that centers those...
Posted: December 12, 2025, 9:34 AM
Press coverage of the Arabber Reunion & Celebration
Next steps are a community archiving event in spring 2026.
An Arabber Reunion and celebration supported by Baltimore Traces is in the news. For media coverage of the event see the Baltimore Beat "Photo story: An arabber reunion". On Saturday,...
Posted: December 1, 2025, 12:54 PM
Ground down and depopulated, Poppleton makes a last stand
Read Mark Reutter in the Baltimore Brew on Poppleton
Read Mark Reutter’s piece in the Baltimore Brew on Poppleton Ground down and depopulated, Poppleton makes a last stand Told by the city to move aside for future development, Black residents...
Posted: July 11, 2021, 12:53 PM
Sounds of a City: Podcasts & Public Humanities in Baltimore
New Publication: Nicole King, "Sounds of a City: Podcasts and Public Humanities in Baltimore," Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Volume 25, Number 1 (2021). Abstract:...
Posted: March 30, 2021, 11:27 AM
Do Listen to Strangers: Nicole King speaks at GRIT-X 2018
Dr. Nicole King Associate Professor and Chair, American Studies at UMBC talks about the Baltimore Traces project and learning to listen to the city.
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Posted: October 23, 2018, 2:41 PM
Baltimore Traces featured in "Humanities for All"
Baltimore Traces is featured on the "Humanities for All" website, an initiative of the National Humanities Alliance Foundation, showcasing higher ed-based publicly engaged humanities initiatives.
Posted: October 23, 2018, 2:36 PM
"Mill Stories" documentary wins Telly Award
The film, "Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill," co-produced by the UMBC New Media Studio and Maryland Traditions, has been named a Bronze winner by the 37th Annual Telly...
Posted: May 16, 2016, 12:56 PM
"Maintain the Crane" - BMI restores historic crane
The Baltimore Museum of Industry is currently raising funds to repair and refresh the World War II era crane currently located at the museum's Inner Harbor Location. During World War II, this...
Posted: September 30, 2015, 10:46 AM
Marc Steiner: Watching Neighborhoods Change
On Feb 24 Marc Steiner presented a talk entitled "Watching Neighborhoods Change." Marc is the creator of the Peabody Award-winning Marc Steiner Show and founder of the Center for Emerging Media...
Posted: January 29, 2015, 3:24 PM