Baltimore has a long, colorful history that traditionally has been focused on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. "The Baltimore Book" is both a history of 'the other Baltimore' and a tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African American, and women's history. The book grew out of a popular local bus tour conducted by public historians, the People's History ...

Manufacturer: Temple University Press
Written By: Linda Shopes

"This book is yet another expression of the careful social observations Walker Evans and James Agee offered in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Patapsco Valley, Maryland, thereby has joined the lucky company of Hale County, Alabama--both places that become, in the hands of an alert photographer and an attentive writer, ...

Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press
Written By: Alison Kahn

Maryland presents cartographers with a formidable test of their skills: unusual natural boundaries, border disputes, and in 1790 the gift of sixty-seven square miles for the creation of the District of Columbia have given the state a distinctively irregular configuration. Since the early seventeenth century, generations of mapmakers have met this challenge with artistic imagination and a ...

Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Written By: Edward C. Papenfuse, Joseph M. III Coale

Documentation on 24 families who were in Maryland prior to July 4, 1776; mainly lineages of contributors. Includes some descendants of Rev. Thomas Airey, Dr. James Anderson, Georg Peter Bargmann, William Byal, William Cockey, Mathew Compton, Sr., Joseph England, Luke Gardiner, Col. Nicholas Gassaway, William Griffith, David Mackelfresh, William Mayhew, Georg Mehn, John Neal, George Noble, Zaccheus ...

Manufacturer: Heritage Books
Written By: Vernon K., Jr. Skinner

Data abstracted from Maryland histories that name immigrant ancestors, and in most cases provide information on at least one generation in America. Many entries give family residence in the old country.

Manufacturer: Heritage Books

Waters of Potowmack is a documentary history of the Potomac River and its wide, fertile basin--the setting for much of early United States history. A collage of primary accounts, it extends from the first explorers and colonists, the building of the Capitol, and the incidents of the Civil War through our recent past. Waters of Potowmack records the firsthand impressions of the settlers and ...

Manufacturer: University Press of Virginia
Written By: Paul C. Metcalf

In St. Mary's County, Maryland there was established the first Catholic parish, the first Catholic school, and the first community of religious men in English-speaking America, and the county residents played a key role in the development of the Catholic Church throughout America. This work has many of the earliest surviving records of Catholic families of the county. From the ...

Manufacturer: Clearfield Co
Written By: Timothy J. Orourke

A delightful companion to the popular postcards books Greetings from Baltimore and Down the Ocean, A Day on the Bay captures the color and charm of Chesapeake beach resorts, the legendary steamships that served them, and the beauty and recreation that give the "Land of Pleasant Living" its identity. Here are the Emma Giles and the Bay Belle, generations apart, steaming to Tolchester and ...

Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Written By: Bert Smith, Anthea Smith

Manufacturer: Frontier Pr
Written By: Karen Mauer Green

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: George Ely Russell, Donna Valley Russell