Books published by Maryland Historical Society

McCreary and his community provide a framework to examine slave catching and kidnapping in the Baltimore-Wilmington-Philadelphia region and how those activities contributed to the nation's political and visceral divide.

In this well-balanced and exceptionally sensitive work, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte finally breathes.

The Eastern Shore's Cambridge, guided by savvy and energetic leaders, became a political and cultural center of African American life.

The blood of the Hambletons is the blood of Maryland, a rich land stretching from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the tidal basins of the mighty Chesapeake to the mountains of the west, a poetic framework that illuminates one truly American family that continues its legacy of building new generations of strong Americans.

All but forgotten by Americans, the War of 1812 (1812-1815) was a dramatic watershed for the young United States Republic. Ill-prepared to fight the powerful English nation, the US struggled through three years of conflict. This book uncovers stories of devastating raids, heroic defense, gallant privateers, fugitive slaves, and threatened lands.

Collectors and antiques dealers have long awaited such a book.

Coin collectors and enthusiasts have been familiar with the story of two boys who unearthed a fortune in gold coins while playing in a Baltimore basement in 1934. This title delves into the lives of the boys and their families, recreates the hours at the police station after the boys reported what they found.

A story of family, place, and time before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge paved over a way of life with a six-lane highway.

The Guide is organized into sections such as Vital Records, Church Records, Tax Lists, and Special Finding Aids.

A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. It includes luminaries such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, "Baby Joe" Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall.

An extraordinary narrative of the oldest continuously operating penitentiary in the Western World, based on prison records, investigative reports, and personal interviews.

Reproducing over 70 maps, 15 in full color, from John White's 1590 map of Virginia showing "Chesepiooc Sinus," the first appearance of the name Chesapeake Bay on any map, to the meticulous maps of the late 19th century.

Their correspondence related everyday events that became history.

This rich lode of Indian and ethnic (English, French, Scottish, Irish, German etc) tradition and lore is a browser's paradise.

Their dispatches, which reported the war with the immediacy of real time, make up the core of this book.

Long overshadowed by the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 remains a largely forgotten conflict. Providing a question-and-answer format, this book offers an informative introduction to the War of 1812.

In spite of terrible hardships, the colonists created a settlement that exists to this day.

He recounts mid- to late-20th-century efforts to preserve the neighborhood and its special character, a movement that sometimes failed, but ultimately led to new architecture that blends comfortably with the essentially nineteenth-century flavor of the area.

Mary's City archaeologist Timothy Riordan unearths new evidence-from muddy "Pope's Fort" in St, Mary's to the Admiralty Court records in London-to show that revolution was brewing in Maryland with or without the colorful, sometimes roguish Ingle and his crew.

What we present here is a collection of the most significant outdoor views, interiors (which had to be made with only natural light), and studio portraits combined to place them in the historical context of their creation.

Betsy's failed quest to win royal status for her son and grandsons consumed the remainder of her seventy-four years, decades that transformed her from the glamorous "belle of Baltimoreinto a shrewd and successful businesswoman determined to protect her family.