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Bmore Historic: September 19, 2025
We hope to see you this September at the Baltimore Museum of Industry for Bmore Historic 2025! Students are free this year.
Questions? Please email us at info@baltimoreheritage.org.
Thanks,
The Bmore Historic Organizing Committee
What is Bmore Historic?
Bmore Historic is a participant-led unconference for people who care about public history and historic preservation in and around Baltimore. Learn more about Bmore Historic or read our introduction to unconferences.
What do we do at Bmore Historic?
Past, in-person unconferences have been structured around four session blocks: two in the morning and two in the afternoon. We usually have between four to six sessions in each of the time blocks for a total of twenty sessions throughout the day.
Lortz Lane Celebration in Historic Govans
What do you get when you add a Baltimore history trivia contest to a neighborhood event in historic Govans? A great community celebration!
Working with a graduate fellow from the University of Maryland School of Social Work, Diamyn Wilson, we at Baltimore Heritage were proud to contribute to a community event on April 26 where residents of the historic Govans neighborhood came out to celebrate the completion of a street improvement project that will help local elementary and middle school kids walk safely from their school to the nearby Pratt Library Branch. The project focused on separating car traffic from where the kids walk along a street called Lortz Lane, including painting a bright mural on the street. Ms. Wilson worked with numerous community groups and residents to plan the celebration, including a history trivia contest with prizes from local shops along York Road just south of the Senator Theater. It’s one more step forward for this great historic place.
Standing Up For Baltimore City Public Schools
Question 1: Function f is defined as f(x) = x2-6x+14. What is the minimum value of f(x)?
This complicated query above was Question 1 on the Maryland math exam that Donald Trump referenced yesterday in making disparaging remarks about Baltimore City Public School students and our school system generally. Among other things, Mr. Trump said that students who failed the exam could “not [do] even the very simplest of mathematics.” (Can you solve the above math problem? We can’t.) We thought we’d highlight a few Baltimore City Public School graduates who could have solved this question. The list is of course nowhere near complete but we hope it gives a little historical perspective of one of the first public school systems founded in the United States (1829).
Nancy Roman – Astronomer and NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy (Western High School)
Valerie Thomas – NASA mathematician and inventor (Western High School)
John Archibald Wheeler – Theoretical physicist who Stephen Hawking called “the hero of the Black Hole story” (Baltimore City College)
Martin Rodbell – Biochemist and 1994 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology (Baltimore City College)
John Clauser – Physicist and winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics (Baltimore Polytechnic Institute)
–Johns Hopkins, Executive Director
Email Your Support of Historic Conservation Districts
Later this month the Baltimore City Council will decide whether to add historic conservation district designation to the city charter. Conservation districts would give the city’s underserved historic neighborhoods a way to participate in historic designation and historic tax credit benefits, but not have all of the design restrictions of a CHAP district (a locally designated historic district). Baltimore Heritage has helped develop and supports the creation of conservation districts. Please consider sending a short email to the City Council saying you support conservation districts. The email is testimony@baltimorecity.gov. Learn more about conservation districts here.