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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.

The story of Baltimore's great conflagration of 1904 is told with meticulous and thrilling detail.

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.

Maryland's role in the Civil War continues to attract wide interest, study, and collection at the war's 150th anniversary. This title presents the largest collection of original Maryland-related Civil War photographs.

Alexandra Deutsch literally "unpacks¿ Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte's personal belongings in this intuitively sophisticated material culture biography of the woman whose seductive beauty and tragic marriage repeatedly pulls us back for another look and, ideally, a deeper understanding of the person behind the celebrity. In addition to letters and portraits, Deutsch found bits of the story in previously overlooked objects in the vast Bonaparte ...

Making extensive use of primary sources, C. Christopher Brown has broken new ground and filled a long overlooked gap in Maryland history. Here is the story of African Americans on Maryland's Eastern Shore, from the promise-filled days following the end of slavery to the rise of lynch law, segregation, and systematic efforts at disenfranchisement. Resisting, as best they could, attempts of the Democratic "White Man's Party¿ to render them secon...

An intimate look at a charming old Baltimore neighborhood, who built it, who lived there, and why its charm has lasted for a century and more. At a time when planners are rejecting suburban sprawl in favor of "small-town communities, " here is the story of a neighborhood that worked.

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.

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.

In 1700, Maryland's new capital at Annapolis was a hamlet in a wilderness whose shoreline looked, according to one new arrival, "like a forest standing in water." By the middle of the 18th century a remarkable collection of men and women had made it into "one of the most sparkling communities in British America.

Emma Randolph, a young woman not yet twenty, wrote poignant letters to her distant cousin, Private Walter G. Dunn of the 11th New Jersey Infantry, as he lay in a crowded, filthy hospital ward during the Civil War after suffering the carnage of the battle of Chancellorsville. There, barely recovered, he aided overworked surgeons when the Gettysburg wounded poured into the city, and regularly took up his pen. Their correspondence related everyda...

A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. Included are well known luminaries Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, "Baby Joe" Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall and equally brave yet not-so-famous Marylanders such as Ann Weems, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave, author Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, physician Louise Young, and Harry Cum...

Street gangs were rampant in the 1850s and nowhere more than Baltimore. Tracy Melton has gone back to the newspapers, court records and every conceivable original source to recreate this colorful period. Some of it is violent and grisly, but the reader also gets descriptions of clothing and everyday life of gang members, etc. And finally we have the spectacle of four men on the gallows in the jail yard (a yard still visible from I-83 North off...

Originally published in 1978, this revised and expanded profile captures in vivid detail the unique style of one of Baltimore's oldest neighborhoods. Local historian Frank Remer Shivers, Jr., has lived in Bolton Hill since 1951. Weaving fond recollections, character sketches, and family histories with literary excerpts, newspaper references, and maps and illustrations, Shivers captures the pride Bolton Hillers take in their quirky part of town...

Coin collectors and enthusiasts have long been familiar with the story of two boys who unearthed a fortune in gold coins while playing in a Baltimore basement in 1934. But the rest of the story trailed off to a few odd details. One of the boys died young, the other ran into trouble with the law. No one seemed to know more. A lifelong coin collector, Leonard Augsburger was determined to uncover the rest of the story. What happened to the kids?...

According to most historians, in 1645-46, Richard Ingle and his ship "Reformation "terrorized the tiny settlements on the Chesapeake Bay, bringing the violence and mayhem of the English Civil War to the New World. But did he? In this thoroughly researched tale of deception, greed, and political intrigue, St. Mary's City archaeologist Timothy Riordan unearths new evidence--from muddy "Pope's Fort" in St, Mary's to the Admiralty Court records in...

In early Maryland the admiralty courts profoundly affected the daily lives of the settlers. This lively examination of the admiralty law system as it was transmitted from England to America. Appendices include summaries and analyses of nearly 150 cases, never collected before, and the transcription of the record of a classic maritime case. Published by Carolina Academic Press in association with the Maryland Historical Society.

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

Lavishly designed with many full color illustrations, the Faris Diary offers a craftsman's view of early America with daily entries from 1792 to 1804, matched with extensive notes, that bring to life the "golden age" of Annapolis.