Author: John Van Lear McMahonPublisher:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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An Historical View of the Government of Maryland
Author: John Van Lear McMahonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author: Herbert Baxter AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Colonial Maryland Naturalizations
Author: Jeffrey A. WyandPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806306807
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The chief interest in this work rests with the naturalizations in Part III, which were compiled from Maryland's Provincial Court documents in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Between 1742 and 1775 upwards of 1,000 naturalizations were granted in Maryland. Data in the naturalization records presented here includes the identifying number of the record, date of naturalization, date of communion, volume and page of the Provincial Court Judgments, name, county or town of residence, nationality, church membership, location of church, and witnesses to communion. Place names, clergy, and parish locations are identified in the appendix.
A Short History of British Colonial Policy
Author: Hugh Edward EgertonPublisher:
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Bulletin of the Virginia State Library
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Historical Records and Studies
Author: United States Catholic Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past
Author: Julia A. KingPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572338881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches—archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical—to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines include the region’s vanishing tobacco farms; St. Mary’s City, established as Maryland’s first capital by English settlers in the seventeenth century; and Point Lookout, the location of a prison for captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. As the author explores the historical narratives associated with such places, she uncovers some surprisingly durable myths as well as competing ones. St. Mary’s City, for example, early on became the center of Maryland’s “founding narrative” of religious tolerance, a view commemorated in nineteenth-century celebrations and reflected even today in local museum exhibits and preserved buildings. And at Point Lookout, one private group has established a Confederate Memorial Park dedicated to those who died at the prison, thus nurturing the Lost Cause ideology that arose in the South in the late 1800s, while nearby the custodians of a 1,000-acre state park avoid controversy by largely ignoring the area’s Civil War history, preferring instead to concentrate on recreation and tourism, an unusually popular element of which has become the recounting of ghost stories. As King shows, the narratives that now constitute the public memory in southern Maryland tend to overlook the region’s more vexing legacies, particularly those involving slavery and race. Noting how even her own discipline of historical archaeology has been complicit in perpetuating old narratives, King calls for research—particularly archaeological research—that produces new stories and “counter-narratives” that challenge old perceptions and interpretations and thus convey a more nuanced grasp of a complicated past. Julia A. King is an associate professor of anthropology at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she coordinates the Museum Studies Program and directs the SlackWater Center, a consortium devoted to exploring, documenting, and interpreting the changing landscapes of Chesapeake communities. She is also coeditor, with Dennis B. Blanton, of Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region.
The Literature of American Local History, a Bibliographical Essay
Author: Herm. E. LudewigThe Literature Of American Local History; A Bibliographical Essay
Author: Hermann Eduard LudewigPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Prestatehood Legal Materials
Author: Michael G. ChiorazziPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780789020567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
"[A] guide to the history and development of law in the U.S. and the change from territory to statehood"--Back cover.