Part of the Building Baltimore Lecture Series: The B&O’s Role in the Making of Charm City 

At 12:00 PM, Historian Dr. David Shley will provide a virtual, live-streamed lecture accessible through the B&O’s social media Pages.  

Dr. Shley will discuss his book Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore, which examines how the birth and spread of the American railroad has had a lasting impact on urban space and domestic life in Baltimore.  

There will be a Q&A segment with Shley, and the entire session will be made available after the lecture. 

About the Lecturer

Dr. David Shley is a historian of the modern United States specializing in urban history, environmental history, the history of capitalism, and histories of mobility. He currently teaches at Durham University in the United Kingdom and has previously held teaching positions in Baltimore, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.