Eric S. Singer

Eric S. Singer is a high-school and university educator and a historian of the Cold War in the United States. He served on the faculty of the University of Baltimore, where he taught about the Cold War’s impact on ordinary Americans’ lives. He adapted for young readers Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick's The Untold History of the United States and Martin J. Sherwin and Kai Bird's American Prometheus (Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb). His work has been featured in Hamburg Institute for Social Research’s Angst im Kalten KreigUrban HistoryThe NationThe Baltimore SunSan Francisco ChronicleTeen Vogue, and The Baltimore Banner.

Why Baltimore Burns

Why Baltimore Burns Why Baltimore Burns

In 1950, Baltimore was the sixth-most-populous city in the country. Today, it is 26th, and its remaining poor black residents are cut off from their more affluent neighbors.

May 1, 2015 / Eric S. Singer

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