I. OFFICIAL TOWN, UNOFFICIAL POLITICS
Chapter 2. Government in the Streets
II. CHARTERED CITY, NEST OF PIRATES
Chapter 6. “Calamities Peculiarly Incident to Large Cities”
III. STAR-SPANGLED VICTORY, ORDEAL OF PEACE
Chapter 8. Baltimore Triumphant
Chapter 9. Public Debt and Internal Improvements
Chapter 10. Working on the Railroad
Chapter 11. Corporate Challenge to Equality and an Educational Response
Chapter 13. Policing the Disorderly City
Chapter 15. Between Mobs and Corporations
Chapter 16. Pigs and Politicians
VI. POLITICAL DECLINE, MILITARY GOVERNMENT, MUNICIPAL PRIDE
Chapter 18. American Party Reckoning
Chapter 19. Baltimore in the Divided Nation
Chapter 21. Democratic Resurrection
VII. PUNGENT POLITICS AND THE FAINT SMELL OF MONEY
Chapter 22. Ex-Slaves, Ex-Confederates, and the New Regime
VIII. DEVASTATION: RACIAL DIVISION, MORAL AND MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES
Chapter 26. Fire, Smoke, and Segregation
Chapter 27. Metropolitan Morality
Chapter 28. World War and Municipal Conquest
Chapter 29. Civil Service and Prohibition
Chapter 31. Relief, Repeal, New Deal
Chapter 32. Democratic Harmony, Republican Victory
Chapter 33. D’Alesandro and His Democrats
X. BUILDING A BETTER BUREAUCRACY
Chapter 34. I’m All Right, Jack
Chapter 35. Slow-Motion Race Riot
Appendix A. Population, Race, and Nativity, Baltimore, 1790–2000