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Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Integrating the Orioles: Baseball and Race in Baltimore”

Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Integrating the Orioles: Baseball and Race in Baltimore”

For this edition of “Hitting the Books,” we turn our attention to one of Baltimore’s most valuable institutions, The Enoch...

Josh Land April 07, 2016 1:07 pm
Hitting the Books With Gary Thorne: The final chapter

Hitting the Books With Gary Thorne: The final chapter

Incredibly, a season of baseball and Hitting the Books is at an end. All adventures – and Hitting the Books...

Josh Land September 25, 2015 10:55 pm
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Night the Bed Fell”

Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Night the Bed Fell”

For decades, The New Yorker magazine was the elite repository of literary expression. The best of writers longed to have...

Josh Land May 26, 2015 10:51 am
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Return of George Washington”

Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Return of George Washington”

There is a time in U.S. history that we generally take for granted, if we think of it at all....

Josh Land May 15, 2015 8:41 am
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Crazy Horse – A Life”

Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Crazy Horse – A Life”

Crazy Horse is a name that evokes the history of Native Americans in the western United States at a time...

Josh Land May 15, 2015 8:29 am
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Return of George Washington”

Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “The Return of George Washington”

There is a time in U.S. history that we generally take for granted, if we think of it at all....

Josh Land April 16, 2015 2:31 pm
Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Crazy Horse – A Life”

Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: “Crazy Horse – A Life”

Crazy Horse is a name that evokes the history of Native Americans in the western United States at a time...

Josh Land March 25, 2015 12:01 pm