The purpose of the Maryland Historical Society's publications program is to make available some of the extensive historical records and resources of the Maryland Historical Society, and to present it and the newest and best research in a form that reaches beyond academia and touches a general audience.

To accomplish this goal, the Maryland Historical Society publishes the Maryland Historical Magazine, a quarterly journal on the history of the state. In addition, the Society periodically publishes books on the state's rich past.

MdHS Press Books are now marketed through Johns Hopkins University Press

Visitors can buy MdHS Press books in person at the MdHS museum shop, but as of January 1, 2008, our books can also be ordered direct from the Johns Hopkins University Press.

TO ORDER MDHS PRESS BOOKS FROM JHUP

Call 1-800-537-5487 toll free or 410-516-6965 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST.

You may fax your order to 410-516-6998 or order by emailhfscustserv@press.jhu.edu

Orders may be placed through the website www.press.jhu.edu.

Mail orders should be sent to:

Johns Hopkins University Press

c/o Hopkins Fulfillment Services

P.O. Box 50370

Baltimore MD 21211-4370

MdHS members will continue to receive a 35% discount when ordering through JHUP.

New MdHS Publications

Just Released! Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1660-1865

By T. Stephen Whitman

“The cradle of American slavery, the Chesapeake region saw vigorous resistance to that terrible institution. T. Stephen Whitman’s vital, thoroughly researched new book describes the ideas, attitudes and complex human relationships that gave the resistance form and momentum.”

“Rising from Whitman’s pages are the idealists—Benjamin Lundy, William Lloyd Garrison, William Still, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Frederick Douglass—whose pens and voices would not be silenced. Here, too, are the warriors—Harriet Tubman, Gabriel, Nat Turner, William Parker, John Brown—who wrote their names in fire, and whose leadership and actions altered the dynamic between slave and free that so terrified the Tidewater social order. As formidable as these men and women were, their battles to end slavery would have failed if not for the thousands of African-Americans, enslaved and free, whose individual acts of determination and defiance helped change history.”

This groundbreaking new work, Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake, presents the powerful story of slavery and freedom in the Chesapeake region. Paperback, 320 pages, $20.00. Order copies by calling the Museum Shop at 410-685-3750 ext. 363.

Coming summer 2007! A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery 1738-1860

By Dr. Gloria Seaman Allen

Purchase advance copies now through the Museum Shop by calling 410-685-3750 ext. 363.

View more Sampler content here.

Maryland Historical Magazine

List of MDHS Books