Amy Stanley: A View from Edo, the Greatest City in the World
UMBC's Humanities Forum presents Amy Stanley, associate professor of history at Northwestern University, who will speak on “A View from Edo, The Greatest City in the World.”
UMBC's Humanities Forum presents Amy Stanley, associate professor of history at Northwestern University, who will speak on “A View from Edo, The Greatest City in the World.”
When the Maryland Historical Society took up its home in the Enoch Pratt House in 1919, the Mount Vernon neighborhood was undergoing a major evolution in its history as a home to the city's elite during the Gilded Age, from the mid- to late-19th century. This lecture, presented by Lance Humphries, will map out the development of the area over the last 100 years. This lecture is part of the Francis Scott Key Lecture series. Cost is $50 for member and nonmembers.
Alban Gerhardt has, for 25 years, made a unique impact on audiences worldwide with his intense musicality, compelling stage presence, and insatiable artistic curiosity. He is joined by longtime recital partner pianist Cecile Licad. Acclaimed as “a particularly fine duo, working emotionally in unison” (The Telegraph, London), they perform a program of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, and Franck’s luminous sonata.
BACH: Suite for Solo Cello in C minor, BWV 1011
BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2
DEBUSSY: Cello Sonata
Archaeologists Lisa Kraus and Jason Shellenhamer present their research on the two smallest and oldest wooden homes in Fells Point known as the Caulkers' Houses. Located at 612 and 614 South Wolfe Street, the buildings were home to African American ship caulkers who were part of a prolific shipbuilding industry that depended on free and enslaved black labor. Caulking, the process by which a ship is waterproofed and sealed, was dominated by black workers, including Frederick Douglass who was a caulker in Baltimore in the 1830s.