Profs & Pints Baltimore: When the Civil War Came to “Mobtown”

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “When the Civil War Came to ‘Mobtown’,” on the infamous Baltimore incident known as the Pratt Street Riot, with Anne Sarah Rubin, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County who teaches courses on Southern and Civil War history.

Although the American Civil War began in Charleston, South Carolina, it’s Baltimore that has the dubious distinction of being the site where the war's first blood was shed. The deaths came not as the result of military combat, but rather because ordinary Baltimoreans attacked troops from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts passing through the city.

Gain an in-depth understanding of this clash and its impact on the course of the Civil War in Maryland and elsewhere with the help of Anne Sarah Rubin, author of books such as Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory and A Shattered Nation: The Rise and…