Musical Maryland: A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio
David K. Hildebrand and Elizabeth M. Schaaf
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In Musical Maryland, the first comprehensive survey of the music emanating from the Old Line State,...
Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong: Inside the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
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Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, is "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist...
Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City
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What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization...
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
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In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free...
Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a Working Land
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Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their...
The Course of History: Great Meals That Changed the World
Struan Stevenson and Tony Singh
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Many decisions which have had enormous historical consequences have been made over the dinner table,...
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
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It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive...
History Politics Gender Studies
Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean,...
American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment
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John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A...
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder
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After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed 'The Angel of...