The Maryland Oyster Roast Fire of 1956
By Joseph B. Ross, Jr.
On the night of Sunday, January 29, 1956, fire broke out at a church fund-raiser in the small town of Brooklyn, Maryland, trapping 1200 people in a large hall and ...
2008; Chesapeake Book Company; 7"x 10"; 208 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9635159-7-1
Price: $18.00
Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America
A vivid account of the barbaric practices of Native Americans and European explorers and colonists.
By George Franklin Feldman
This riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth when we gloss ...
2008; Alan C. Hood & Co., Inc.; 6"x 9"; 272 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-911469-33-2
Price: $20.00
Cross-Class Alliances And The Birth Of Modern Liberalism
Maryland's Workers, 1865-1916
By George B. Jr. DuBois
Spanning the years 1865 to 1916 when the industrial revolution took hold, this book, one of the rare state level studies of labor and politics, explains how workers discarded outworn ...
2008; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 336 pages; Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-9635159-8-8
Price: $35.00
Sotterley: Her People and Their Worlds
Three Hundred Years of a Maryland Plantation
By David G. Brown
The story of Sotterley plantation in St. Mary's County began shortly after the founding of Maryland and continued over three centuries that saw it rise from humble beginnings, prosper in ...
2010; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 116 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9823049-1-4
Price: $17.00
Maryland and the Secession Crisis
By Lawrence M. Denton
Maryland did not freely choose to remain in the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War, this book argues: the state was held by brute force. A colorful account ...
1995; Publishing Concepts; 6"x 9"; 256 pages; Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9635159-4-0
Price: $21.00
The "Winans" Steam Gun and the Civil War in Maryland
By John W. Lamb
In the spring of 1861, with secession in full flower and Baltimore occupied by General Benjamin “Beast” Butler’s nervous Union troops, reports emerged that southern sympathizers there possessed a terrible ...
2011; Chesapeake Book Company; 6" x 9"; 96 pages; paper; illustrations; notes; index;
ISBN: 978-0-9823049-2-1
Price: $12.50
