After Chancellorsville: Letters from the Heart: The Civil War Letters of Private Walter G. Dunn and Emma Randolph

Emma Randolph, a young woman not yet twenty, wr...

Maryland Blood: An American Family in War and Peace, the Hambletons 1657 to the Present

The blood of the Hambletons is the blood of Mar...

The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography

A lively look at the Chesapeake Bay and what ha...

On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857

The enthralling story of the eleven hundred bra...

Chesapeake Ferries: A Waterborne Tradition, 1636-2000

Beautifully illustrated with dozens of photogra...

Art & Energy

In Art & Energy, Barry Lord argues that human c...

The Place Names of Maryland: Their Origin and Meaning

Fascinating and entertaining lore on Maryland p...

Do You Remember?: The Whimsical Letters of H. L. Mencken and Philip Goodman

Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore’s Plug Uglies, 1854-1860

Street gangs were rampant in the 1850s and nowh...

A Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

Alexandra Deutsch literally 'unpacks¿ Elizabeth...

The Great Baltimore Fire

The story of Baltimore's great conflagration of...

The Road to Jim Crow: The African American Struggle on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, 1860-1915

Making extensive use of primary sources, C. Chr...