Profs & Pints Baltimore: How “Mobtown” Earned Its Name

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “How ‘Mobtown’ Earned the Name,” a review of riotousness throughout Baltimore’s existence, with Joseph Rosalski, longtime teacher of local history and current assistant professor of history at the Community College of Baltimore County.

[Doors open at 3. The talk starts at 4:30. The room is open seating.]

Baltimore has no shortage of nicknames, “Monumental City,” “Charm City,” and “the Clipper City” among them. None, however, has stuck quite like the moniker of “Mobtown,” arising not from organized crime but from city residents’ reputation for loosely organized belligerence toward those who get on their bad side.

Join Joe Rosalski, who has taught local history at the Community College of Baltimore County, the University of Baltimore, and Stevenson University, for a nearly 300-year journey back through time to revisit some of Charm City’s roughest moments. 

We’ll start with a charitable discussion of how Baltimore residents’ legendary feistiness…