List of MDHS Books

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Current Titles
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$35.00

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$22.75

Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore’s Plug Uglies 1854-1860
By Tracy Matthew Melton
493 pages. Hardbound, illustrated.
Table of Contents, List of Participants, Sources, Index
ISBN:0-938420-93-3
African American Leaders of Maryland: A Portrait Gallery
By Suzanne Ellery Chapelle and Glenn O. Phillips
156 pages. Paperbound, illustrated. Chronology, overview, index, and recommended readings. ISBN 0-938420-69-0

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$20.00

Members:
$13.00

The Mighty Revolution: Negro Emancipation in Maryland, 1862-1864
By Charles Lewis Wagandt
298 pages. Softback; reprinted With illustrations, bibliography, tables, and index.
ISBN: 0-938420-91-7

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$20.00

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$13.00

Tuscany-Canterbury: A Baltimore Neighborhood History
By Eileen Higham
106 pages. Paper bound, illustrated
Table of Contents, illustrations, map, index, Appendix, biographical notes
ISBN 0-938420-77-1

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$22.50

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$14.63

Toward Equality: Baltimore’s Progress Report
By Edgar L. Jones and Jack L. Levin
114 pages, softback. Reprinted. Illustrated
LOC Card #60-12470

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$40.00

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$10.00

The Plundering Time
By Timothy Riordan
388 pages. Cloth binding with jacket
Appendix, references, bibliography, index
ISBN 0-938420-88-7

 

The Great Baltimore Fire
By Peter B. Petersen
232 pages. Cloth binding with jacket $30.00
Illustrations; chronology; notes; index; list of firefighting units
ISBN 0-938420-90-9

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$30.00

Members: $19.50

 

On Afric's Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia 1834-1857
By Richard L. Hall
580 pages. Cloth binding with jacket $45.00
Illustrations, annotated role of settlers, reference notes, bibliography,index
ISBN 0-938420-86-0

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$45.00

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Betsy Bonaparte: The Belle of Baltimore
By Claude Bourguignon-Frasseto
304 pages. Paperback will illustrations, bibliography, index
ISBN 0-938420-82-8

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$22.00

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$14.90


The Diary of William Faris: The Daily Life of an Annapolis Silversmith
Edited by Mark B. Letzer and Jean B. Russo
496 pages. Cloth binding with jacket $55.00
Illustrations; appendices; bibliography; index
ISBN 0-938420-80-1

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$55.00

Members: $35.74

 

Kent Island: The Land That Once was Eden
By Janet Freedman
160 pages. Cloth $22.95
Illustrations, reference notes.
ISBN 0-938420-84-4

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$22.95

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The Living City: Baltimore's Charles Center & Inner Harbor Development - By Marion E. Warren & Michael P. McCarthy Hardcover, 126 pages, approx. 140 photographs
$35.00
, ISBN 0-938420-68-2

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Yellow Flag: The Civil War Journal of Surgeon's Steward C. Marion Dodson. - Edited by Charles Albert Earp
ISBN 0-938420-79-8
Paperbound 164 pages, illustrated $16.00

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$16.00

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Maryland History in Prints, 1743-1900
Cloth binding with jacket, 400 pages
By Laura Rice
ISBN 0-938420-71-2
320 images; bibliography; index

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$75.00

Members: $56.25

 

The Patapsco River Valley Cradle of the Industrial Revolution in Maryland
Paperbound, 125 pages
By Henry K. Sharp
ISBN 0-938420-74-7
 

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$22.95

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The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography
Hardcover
ISBN 0-938420-75-5
288 pp.,
bibliographical note index

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$30

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    A Guide to Genealogical Research in Maryland
Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged
By Henry C. Peden, Jr., F.M.G.S.
Paperbound, 208 pages

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$18.00

Members
$11.70

After Chancellorsville: Letters from the Heart
The Civil War Letters of Private Walter G. Dunn &
Emma Randolph
Edited by Judith A. Bailey and Robert I. Cottom
Paperbound, 280 pages


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$14.62


Book Jacket, The Life of Benjamin Banneker
The Life of Benjamin Banneker
Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
By Silvio A. Bedini
Cloth binding with jacket, 480 pages

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$22.75

Builders of Annapolis: Enterprise and Politics in a Colonial Capital
By Norman K. Risjord
Paperbound, 192 pages

Book Jacket, Builders of Annapolis....

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$18.95

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$12.32

Back List Titles
  The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition
Produced by Kokusai Art in Tokyo
with the cooperation of the
Maryland Historical Society
Paperbound, 131 pages
Available at bookstores and from the MdHS online
  • Tour the Book
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    A Monument to Good Intentions:
    The Story of the Maryland Penitentiary,
    1804-1995

    By Wallace Shugg
    Paperbound, 256 pages
    Available at bookstores and from the MdHS online
  • Tour the Book
  • Retail
    $20.00

    Members
    $13.00

    Can A Coal Scuttle Fly?
    Written by Camay Calloway Murphy
    Illustrated by local artist Tom Miller
    Cloth, 32 pages

    Retail
    $14.00

    Members
    $9.10

    Book jacket, Do You Remember?........ Do You Remember? The Whimsical Letters of H.L. Mencken and Philip Goodman
    Edited by Jack Sanders
    Cloth binding with jacket, 176 pages

    Retail
    $25.00

    Members
    $16.25

    Book jacket, John Gottlieb Morris......
    John Gottlieb Morris: Man of God, Man of Science
    By Michael J. Kurtz
    Paperbound, 224 pages

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    $20.00

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    $13.00

    Book jacket, Money and Banking in Maryland.....
    Money and Banking in Maryland: A Brief History of Commerical Banking in the Old Line State with a Catalogue of Maryland's Early Currency
    By Stuart R. Bruchey, Denwood N. Kelly, Armand M. Shank, Jr., and Thomas S. Gordon
    Catalogue by Richard G. Doty of the Smithsonian Institution
    Full cloth binding (no jacket) and full-color endpapers, 464 pages

    Retail
    $65.00

    Members
    $42.25

    Book jacket, Lavish Legacies.....
    Lavish Legacies: Baltimore Album Quilts in the Collection of the Maryland Historical Society
    By Jennifer F. Goldsborough
    Paperbound, 134 pages

    Retail
    $37.50

    Members
    $24.37

    Alexander Smith Cochran: Modernist Architect in Traditional Baltimore
    By Christopher Weeks
    Clothbound, 182 pages

    Retail
    $29.95

    Members
    $19.47

      St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore: The Story of a People and Their Home
    By Thomas W. Spalding and Kathryn M. Kuranda
    Clothbound, 312 pages

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    Book jacket, Maryland in the Civil War...... Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided
    By Robert I. Cottom and Mary Ellen Hayward
    Paperbound, 128 pages

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    $24.95

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    $16.22

      Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 1634—1776
    By David R. Owen and Michael C. Tolley
    Foreword by Frank L. Wiswall, Jr.
    Clothbound, 458 pages

    Retail
    $45.00

    Members
    $29.25

    Mapping Maryland: The Willard Hackerman Collection

    Over 70 maps taken from one of the finest collections of Maryland-related historical maps; introduction by David Cobb, Head of the Map Collection, Harvard University; in color and sepia. Paperbound, 63 pages.

    Book jacket, Mapping Maryland.....

    Retail   $20.00

    Members   $13.00

    Book jacket, Chesapeake Wildfowl Hunting......
    Chesapeake Wildfowl Hunting: Maryland's Finest Decoys
    By the staff of Maryland Historical Society
    Paperbound, 112 pages

    Retail
    $16.95

    Members
    $11.02

    Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Bicentennial
    By John B. Boles. editor
    Paperbound, 272 pages

    Retail
    $25.00

    Members
    $16.25

      The Calvert Papers: Calendar and Guide to the Microfilm Edition
    Donna M. Ellis and Karen A. Stuart, Editors
    Introduction by Richard J. Cox
    Paperbound, 214 pages

    Retail
    $17.95

    Members
    $11.67

    George Calvert: The Early Years
    By James W. Foster
    Introductory essays by Richard J. Cox and Marvin A. Breslow
    Paperbound, 126 pages

    Retail
    $8.95

    Members
    $5.82

      Parceling Out Land in Baltimore, 1621—1796
    By Garrett Power
    Paperbound, 56 pages

    Retail
    $6.00

    Members
    $3.90

    William Paca: A Biography
    By George A. Stiverson and Phebe R. Jacobsen
    Paperbound, 104 pages

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      Classical Maryland, 1815—1845: Fine and Decorative Arts from the Golden Age
    By Gregory R. Weidman and Jennifer F. Goldsborough
    with contributions by Robert L. Alexander, Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Mary Ellen Hayward, and Catherine A. Rogers
    Paperbound, 200 pages

    Retail
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    Members
    $24.37

      Four Generations of Commissions: The Peale Collection of the Maryland Historical Society
    By Eugenia Calvert Holland, Romaine Stec Somerville, Stiles Tuttle Colwill, and K. Beverley Whiting Young
    Paperbound, 204 pages

    Retail
    $14.95

    Members
    $9.72

    Book jacket, The Placenames of Maryland
    The Placenames of Maryland: Their Origin and Meaning
    By Hamill Kenny
    Paperbound, 364 pages

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    $22.50

    Members
    $14.62

      Unlocking the Secrets of Time: Maryland's Hidden Heritage
    Jean B. Russo, Editor
    Paperbound, 120 pages

    Retail
    $10.95

    Members
    $7.12

      Indians of Early Maryland
    by Harold R. Manakee
    Paperbound, 48 pages

    Retail
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    $3.90

      Maryland Political Behavior: Four Centuries of Political Culture
    By George H. Callcott
    Illustrations compiled by Mary Ellen Hayward
    Paperbound, 64 pages

    Retail
    $8.95

    Members
    $5.82

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