The Basics
Full Story Baltimore is a walking tour company committed to telling fuller stories of this city, its history, and its people.
Our mission was born out of a movement to confront the more difficult and unpleasant parts of our history and to build something constructive from them. This nationwide (and international) movement has deep roots in Maryland and Baltimore, and a wide expression in our local cultural institutions. Baltimoreans have demonstrated their investment in knocking white supremacists down off of their pedestals—and elevating the stories of marginalized people in the past. Full Story Baltimore brings that approach to our walking tours.
Some of our tours explore parts of the city that other walking tours tend to overlook. All of them engage difficult topics head-on. We fight against the historical erasure of ordinary people’s lives. We believe that “place-based public history helps to write both ordinary and extraordinary stories back into our communal memory.” We honor the Indigenous people(s) of this place. We believe that Black lives more than matter.
Does this sound like you, too? Come on a tour!
Your Guide
Emma Katherine Bilski, PhD (any pronouns) is an expert tour guide and award-winning educator with 14 years of experience working in public history. Emma Katherine also has many years of experience doing historical research, graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Oxford, and puts extensive research into each Full Story Baltimore tour.
Emma Katherine especially enjoys talking to tour guests about Indigenous/Native American and Black histories of the greater Baltimore area, as well as “religious history as local history and vice versa,” but has wide-ranging interests and loves tying together a variety of historical threads in each tour.
Find out more about your expert guide here.
All website photos taken by James Goldsborough Bigwood, unless noted otherwise.
Logo by MICA-trained illustrator Kirsty Hambrick, 2024 @ khambrick.com