MARYLAND AT A GLANCE

HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY

MARYLAND HISTORIANS

• Andrews, Matthew Page (1879-1947)
  • The Tercentenary History of Maryland (1925)
• Arlene, Samuel
  • Notes on the Seven Mills of Ellicott City (1988)
• Argersinger, Jo Ann E.
  • Toward a New Deal in Baltimore: People and Government in the Great Depression (1988)
• Armstrong, James Edward (1830-1908)
  • History of the Old Baltimore Conference: From the Planting of Methodism in 1773 to the Division of the Conference in 1857 (1907)
• Arnold, Joseph L. (1938-2004)
  • The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935–1954 (1971)
  • Maryland: Old Line to New Prosperity, co-author (2003)

• Baker, Jean H. (1933-)
  • Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (1987)
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction, co-author (2000)
  • Maryland: A History (2018)
  • The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered, co-editor (2021)
• Barker, Charles Albro (1905-1993)
  • The Background of the Revolution in Maryland (1940)
• Belfoure, Charles A. (1954-)
  • Edmund Lind, Anglo-American Architect of Baltimore and the South (2009)
  • Monuments to Money: The Architecture of American Banks (2011)
  • Niernsee and Neilson, Architects of Baltimore: Two Careers on the Edge of the Future (2006)
• Bell, Richard J.
  • Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped Into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home (2019)
• Benson, Michael T. (1965-)
  • Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University (2022)
• Berlin, Ira (1941-2018)
  • Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South (1974)
  • Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in Mainland North America (1998)
  • Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation, co-editor (1998)
  • A Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland (2008)

Bernier, Celeste-Marie

Frederick Douglass: My Bondage and My Freedom (2019)

Beveridge, Charles Eliot

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, series editor (1980-)

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape, co-author (2020)

Bilhartz, Terry D. (1950-2015)

Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening: Church and Society in Early National Baltimore (1986)

Christopher E. Haley, Celeste-Marie Bernier, & Walter O. Evans, in conversation at "Strike for Freedom" exhibit, House Office Building, Annapolis, Maryland, April 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Blum, Isidor
  • The Jews of Baltimore: An Historical Summary of Their Progress and Status as Citizens of Baltimore from Early Days to the Year 1910 (1910)
• Bode, Carl (1911-1993)
  • Maryland: a Bicentennial History (1978)
• Bond, Beverley Waugh, Jr. (1843-1920)
  • The Life of John Wesley (1880)
• Bond, Carroll T. (1873-1943)
  • The Court of Appeals of Maryland: A History (1928)
• Bonner, Charles H.
  • John Pendleton Kennedy: Gentleman from Baltimore (1961)
• Bozman, John Leeds (1755-1823)
  • The History of Maryland: From its First Settlement in 1633 to the Restoration in 1660, 2 vols. (1837)
• Brackett, Jeffrey R. (1860-1949)
  • The Negro in Maryland: A Study of the Institution of Slavery in Maryland (1889)
  • Notes on the Progress of the Colored People of Maryland since the War. A Supplement to The Negro in Maryland: A Study of the Institution of Slavery in Maryland (1890)
• Branch, Taylor (1947-)
  • Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1989)
  • Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (1999)
  • At Cannan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (2006)
• Bready, James H. (1919-2011)
  • Baseball in Baltimore: The First Hundred Years (1998)
• Breihan, John R. (Jack) (1945-2022)
  
  • Martin Aircraft, 1909-1960 (1995)
  • Maryland Aviation, co-author (2009)
• Breslaw, Elaine G.
  • Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America: Expanding the Orbit of Scottish Culture (2008)
• Brewington, Marion V. (1902-1974)
  • Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes (1937)
  • Chesapeake Bay Bugeyes (1941)
  • Chesapeake Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History (1956)
• Brooks, Neal A.
  • A History of Baltimore County, co-author (1979)
• Brown, George William (1812-1890)
  • Baltimore and the nineteenth of April 1861; a study of the war (1887)
• Brown, Philip
  • A Century of Separate but Equal Education in Anne Arundel County (1998)
• Browne, Gary L.
  • Baltimore in the Nation (1980)
• Browne, William Hand (1828-1912)
  • Archives of Maryland, editor (1883-1912)
  • Maryland: The History of a Palatinate (1884)
  • George Calvert and Cecilius Calvert (1890)
• Brugger, Robert J.
  • Maryland, A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980 (1988)
  • The Maryland Club: A History of Food and Friendship in Baltimore, 1857-1997 (1998)
• Burn, Helen Jean (1926-2014)
  • Betsy Bonaparte (2010)

• Callcott, George H. (1929-)
  • A History of the University of Maryland (1966)
  • Maryland and America, 1940-1980 (1985)
• Callcott, Margaret Law
  • The Negro in Maryland Politics, 1870-1912 (1969)
  • Mistress of Riverdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821 (1992)
• Campbell, Penelope
  • Maryland in Africa (1971)
• Carey, George C.
  • Maryland Folklore and Folklife (1970)
• Carr, Lois Green (1922-2015)
  • Maryland’s Revolution of Government, 1689-1692, co-author (1974)
  • Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland, co-author (1977)
  • “The Development of the Maryland Orphans Court, 1654-1715” in Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland, Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, editors, (1977)
  • Maryland at the Beginning, co-author (1978)
  • A Declaration of Maryland, co-author (1984)
  • A Relation of the Successful Beginning of the Lord Baltimore’s Plantation in Maryland, co-author (1984)
  • County Government in Maryland (1987)
  • Colonial Chesapeake Society, co-author (1989)
  • Robert Cole’s World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland, co-author (1991)
• Carroll, Douglas Gordon, Jr. (1923-2020)
  • Medicine in Maryland, 1634-1900 (1984)
• Carroll, Kenneth L.
  • Joseph Nichols and the Nicholites: A Look at the “New Quakers” of Maryland, Delaware, North and South Carolina (1962)
  • Quakerism on the Eastern Shore (1970)
  • Three Hundred Years and More of Third Haven Quakerism (1984)
• Chappelle, Suzanne Ellery
  • Maryland: A History of its People, co-author (1986)
  • Baltimore: An Illustrated History, co-author (2000)
  • The Maryland Adventure (2001)
  • African American Leaders of Maryland: A Portrait Gallery, co-author (2004)
• Chavis, Charles L., Jr.
  • The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State (2022)
• Clemens, Paul G. E. (1947-)
  • The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland’s Eastern Shore (1980)
• Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy (1843-1930)
  • The Medical Annals of Maryland, 1789-1889: Prepared for the Centennial of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty (1903)
  • University of Maryland, 1807-1907: Its History, Influence, Equipment, & Characteristics (1907)
• Cottom, Robert I.
  • Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided, co-author (1994)
  • Your Maryland: Little Known Histories from the Shores of the Chesapeake to the Foothills of the Allegheny Mountains (2017)
• Craven, Avery O. (1885-1980)
  • Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606–1860 (1926)
  • The Coming of the Civil War (1957)
• Creighton, John J. (1941-2015)
• Crenson, Matthew A. (1943-)
  • Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, co-author (2004)
  • Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced, co-author (2007)
  • Baltimore: A Political History (2017)
• Crooks, James B.
  • Politics & Progress: The Rise of Urban Progressivism in Baltimore, 1895-1911 (1968)
• Cross, Andrew Boyd (1810-1889)
  • The War and the Christian Commission (1865)
  • The Presbyterian Church at Bethel: In the wilderness of Upper Node Forest, Baltimore Co., Md. before 1769 (1886)
• Crowl, Philip A. (1914-1991)
  • Maryland During and After the Revolution: A Political and Economic Study (1943)
• Cunz, Dieter (1910-1969)
  • The Maryland Germans: A History (1941)

• Davidson, Thomas E.
  • Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland (1997)
• Davis, Nancy E.
  • The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition (1998)
• Davis, Richard Beale (1907-1981)
  • A Colonial Southern Bookshelf: Reading in the Eighteenth Century (1979)
  • Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 (1978)
• Day, Alan F.
  • Lawyers in Colonial Maryland, 1660-1715 (1973)
  • A Social Study of Lawyers in Maryland: 1660-1775 (1977)
  • A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature: 1635-1789, 2 vols., co-editor (1979, 1985)
• Dent, Richard A.
  • Chesapeake Pre-History: Old Traditions, New Directions (1995)
• Deutsch, Alexandra
  • A Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (2016)
• Diemer, Andrew K.
  • The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 (2016)
  • Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad (2022)
• Diggins, Milt
  • Stealing Freedom Along the Mason-Dixon Line: Thomas McCreary, the Notorious Slave Catcher from Maryland (2015)
• Diggs, Louis S. (1922-1932)
  • It All Started on Winters Lane: A History of the Black Community in Catonsville, Maryland (1995)
  • Holding Onto Their Heritage (1996)
  • North County: The History of African American Settlements in Northern Baltimore County’s Scenic Horse Country (2005)
  • Since the Beginning: African American Communities in Towson (2000)
  • African Americans from Baltimore County Who Served in the Great War (2016)
• Douglas, Henry Kyd (1840-1903)
  • I Rode With Stonewall: The War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson’s Staff (1940)
• Dudley, William S. (1936-)
  • Maritime Maryland: A History (2010)
  • Inside the U.S. Navy of 1812-1815 (2021)
• Dunn, Richard L.

• Earle, Carville V. (1942-2003)
  • The Evolution of a Tidewater Settlement System: All Hallow's Parish, Maryland, 1650-1783 (1975)
• Elder, William Voss, III (1932-2014)
  • Baltimore Painted Furniture, 1800-1840 (1972)
  • John Shaw, Cabinet Maker of Annapolis (1983)
• Elfenbein, Jessica I.
  • From Mobtown to Charm City: New Perspectives on Baltimore’s Past, co-editor (2002)
  • Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City, co-editor (2011)
• Ellefson, C. Ashley (1930-2016)
  • The Higher Schooling in the United States (1978)
  • The County Courts and the Provincial Court in Maryland, 1733-1763 (1993)
• Esslinger, Dean R. (1942-)
  • Friends for two hundred years: A history of Baltimore's oldest school (1983)
  • Maryland: A History, co-author (2005)
• Eshelman, Ralph E.
  • Chesapeake Legends and Lore from the War of 1812 (2013)
  • In Full Glory Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake, co-author (2012)

• Fein, Isaac M. (1899-1995)
  • The History of Baltimore Jewry from 1773-1920: The Making of an American Jewish Community (1970)
• Fields, Barbara J. (1947-)
  • Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century (1984)
  • Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (2014)
• Floyd, Bianca P.
  • Records & Recollections: Early Black History in Prince George’s County (1989)
• Floyd, Claudia
  • Maryland Women in the Civil War: Unionists, Rebels, Slaves, & Spies (2013)
  • Union-Occupied Maryland: A Civil War Chronicle of Civilians & Soldiers (2014)
• Forrest, Clarence H.
  • Official History of the Fire Department of Baltimore, Together with Biographies and Portraits of Eminent Citizens (1898)
• Fox, William Lloyd (1921-)
  • Maryland: A History, 1634-1974 (1974)
  • Dandy of Johns Hopkins (1984)
• Freedman, Janet (1945-)
  • Kent Island: The Land That Once Was Eden (2002)
• Fuke, Richard Paul (1940-)
  • Imperfect Equality: African Americans and the Confines of White Racial Attitudes in Post-Emancipation Maryland (1999)

• Gilbert, Geoffrey N.
  • Baltimore’s Flour Trade to the Caribbean 1750-1815 (1986)
• Gilmor, Harry W. (1838-1883)
  • Four Years in the Saddle (1866)
• Gould, Clarence Pembroke (1884-1971)
  • The Land System in Maryland, 1720-1765 (1913)
  • Money and Transportation in Maryland, 1720-1765 (1915)
  • Economic History of Maryland, 1720-1765, Land (1913)
• Graham, David K.
  • Loyalty on the Line: Civil War Maryland in American Memory (2015)
• Griffith, Thomas Waters (1767-1834)
  • Sketches of the Early History of Maryland (1821)
  • Annals of Baltimore (1824)
• Guilday, Peter Keenan (1884-1947)
  • The Life and Times of John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore (1735-1815) (1922) A History of the Councils of Baltimore, 1791-1884 (1932)

• Hall, Richard L.
  • On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857 (2003)
• Halpin, Dennis P.
  • A Brotherhood of Liberty: Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1866-1920 (2019)
• Hammett, M. Regina C. (1930-2010)
  • History of St. Mary’s County, Maryland, 1644-1990 (1991)
• Hanley, Thomas O’Brien
  • Charles Carroll of Carrollton: the Making of a Revolutionary Gentleman (1970)
• Harp, David W.
  • The Nanticoke: Portrait of a Chesapeake River, co-author (2008)
• Harrold, Stanley (1946-)
  • Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before The Civil War (2013)
• Hartwig, D. Scott (1955-)
  • A Killer Angels Companion (1996)
  • The Antietam Campaign (1996)
  • Giants in Their Tall Black Hats: Essays on the Iron Brigade (1998)
  • Gettysburg: The Complete Pictorial of Battlefield Monuments (2003)
  • I Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign (2023)
• Haw, James
  • Stormy Patriot: The Life of Samuel Chase (1980)
• Hawkins, Hugh (1930-2016)
  • Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1874-1889 (2002)
• Hayward, Mary Ellen (1947-2020)
  • Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided, co-author (1994)
  • The Baltimore Rowhouse, co-author (2001)
  • The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History, co-editor (2004)
  • Baltimore’s Alley Houses: Homes for Working People since the 1780s (2008)
• Hemphill, Katie M.
  • Bawdy City: Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790-1915 (2020)
• Hemphill, John M., II (1924-2000)
  • Virginia and the English Commercial System, 1689-1733: Studies of the Development and Fluctuations of a Colonial Economy under Imperial Control (1985)
• Higham, John (1920-2003)
  • Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1955)
  • History: Professional Scholarship in America (1973, 1989)
  • Send These to Me: Jews and Other Immigrants in Urban America (1975)
  • Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America (1984)
  • Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture (2001)
• Hienton, Louise Joyner
  • Prince George’s Heritage: Sidelights on the Early History of Prince George’s County, Maryland, from 1696 to 1800 (1972)
• Hoffman, Ronald (1941-2018)
  • Spirit of Dissension: Economics, Politics, and the Revolution in Early Maryland (1973)
  • Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778, co-author (1981)
  • The Pursuit of Liberty: A History of the American People, co-author (1983)
  • Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution, co-author (1983)
  • Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution, co-editor (1984)
  • Women in the Age of the American Revolution, co-editor (1989)
  • We Shall Overcome: The Legacy, co-editor (1993)
  • Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America, (1997)
  • Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782, co-author (2000)
  • Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of an Aristocrat as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrolton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, co-editor (2015)
• Horn, James P.
  • A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America (2008)
  • Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (2012)
  • 1619: Jamestown and the Founding of American Democracy (2018)
• Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
  • The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas (1994)
• Howard, William T., Jr. (1867-1953)
  • Public Health Administration and the Natural History of Disease in Baltimore, Maryland, 1797-1920 (1924)
• Hungerford, Edward (1875-1948)
  • The Story of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1827-1927 (1928)

• Ifill, Sherrilyn A. (1962-)
  • On The Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century (2007)
  • A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law, co-author (2018)

• Jeske, Mary C.
  • The Samuel Gompers Papers, co-editor (1986)
• Johnson, Bradley T. (1829-1903)
  • The Foundation of Maryland and the Origin of the Act Concerning Religion (1883)
• Jordan, David W.
  • The Royal Period of Colonial Maryland, 1689-1715 (8 editions, 1966-80)
  • Maryland’s Revolution of Government, 1689-1692, co-author (1974)
  • Foundations of Representative Government in Maryland, 1632-1715 (20 editions, 1977-2009)
  • A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, vol. 1: A-H, co-editor (1979)
  • A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, vol. 2: I-Z, co-editor (1985)

• Kahn, Philip Jr. (1917-1998)
  • A Stitch in Time: The Four Seasons of Baltimore’s Needle Trades (1989)
• Keith, Robert C. (1932-2010)
  • Baltimore Harbor: A Pictorial History (1982, 1985, 1991, 2005)
• Kenny, Hamill (1902-1989)
  • The Place Names of Maryland: Their Origin and Meaning (1984)
• Kimmel, Ross M.
  • The Maryland Soldier: a Revolutionary War Portrait (1974)
  • “I Am Busy Drawing Pictures”: The Civil War Art and Letters of Private John Jacob Omenhausser, C.S.A, co-author (2014)
• Kimmel, Stanley
  • The Mad Booths of Maryland (1940)
• King, Julia A.
  • Indian and European Contact in Context: The Mid-Atlantic Region, co-editor (2004)
• Kolata, Gina Bari (1948-)
  • The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (1999)
• Koot, Christian J.
  • Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621-1713 (2011)
  • A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Hermann’s Chesapeake (2018)
• Kulikoff, Allan
  • Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Culture in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800 (2012)
  • From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (2014)
• Kummerow, Burton K. (1940-)
  • In Full Glory Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake, co-author (2012)

• Land, Aubrey C. (1912-1993)
  • The Dulanys of Maryland: A Biographical Study of Daniel Dulany, the Elder (1685-1753) and Daniel Dulany, the Younger (1722-1797) (1955, 1968)
• Larson, Kate Clifford
  • Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero (2003)
  • The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot To Kill Abraham Lincoln (2008)
• Latrobe, John H.B. (1803-1891)
  • Maryland in Liberia: A History of the Colony Planted by the Maryland State Colonization Society under the Auspices of the State of Maryland, U.S. at Cape Palmas on the South-West Coast of Africa, 1833-1853 (1885)
• Lemay, J. A. Leo (1935-2008)
  • Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (1972)
  • The Life of Benjamin Franklin, 3 vols. (2006)
• Lewis, Ronald L.
  • Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia (1979)
• Lord, Walter (1917-2002)
  • The Dawn’s Early Light (1972)
• Lovejoy, David S. (1919-1999)
  • The Glorious Revolution in America (1972, 1987)

• Maddox, Lucy B.
  • The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping (2016)
  • People of Rose Hill: Black and White Life on a Maryland Plantation (2021)
• Main, Gloria L. (1933-)
  • Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720 (1982)
• Marbury, William L.
  • In the Catbird Seat (1988)
• Martin, Scott C.
  • Devil of the Domestic Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860 (2008)
• Mason, Sally D.
  • Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of an Aristocrat as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrolton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, 3 vols., co-editor (2015)
• Mazaroff, Stanley (1939-)
  • A Paris Life, A Baltimore Treasure: The Remarkable Lives of George A. Lucas and His Art Collection (2018)
  • Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson: Collector and Connoisseur, co-author (2020)
• McCarthy, Michael P. (1938-2005)
  • The Living City: Baltimore’s Charles Center and Inner Harbor Development, co-author (2002)
• McCormac, Eugene Irving (1872-1943)
  • White Servitude in Maryland, 1634-1820 (1904)
• McCusker, John J. (1939-)
  • Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World (2005)
  • The Economy of British America, 1607-1789, co-author (2014)
• McGrain, John W., Jr. (1931-2021)
  • From Pig Iron to Cotton Duck: A History of Manufacturing Villages in Baltimore County (1988)
  • Old Maryland Mills: A Portfolio (2020)
• McSherry, James, Jr. (1819-1869)
  • History of Maryland; From Its First Settlement, to the Year 1848 (1849)
• McWilliams, Jane Wilson
  • A Century of Caring: A History of Anne Arundel Medical Center, 1902-2002, co-author (2002)
  • Annapolis, City on the Severn: A History (2011)
• Melton, Tracy Matthew
  • Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore’s Plug Uglies, 1854-1860 (2005)
• Menard, Russell R. (1942-)
  • Robert Cole’s World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland, co-author (1991)
• Mereness, Newton D.
  • Maryland as a Proprietary Province (1901)
  • Travels in the American Colonies, 1690-1783, editor (1916)
• Middleton, Arthur Pierce (1916-2009)
  • A Virginia Gentleman’s Library: as Proposed by Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith in 1771 (1952, 2012)
  • Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era (1953)
  • Annapolis on the Chesapeake (1988)
  • Anglican Maryland, 1692-1792 (1992)
  • Tercentenary Essays Commemorating Anglican Maryland, 1692-1792 (1992)
• Millward, Jessica
  • Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland (2015)
• Mitchell, Charles W.
  • Maryland Voices of the Civil War, editor (2007)
  • Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic: A Guide for all Ages (2014)
  • The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered, co-editor (2021)
• Morgan, Philip D. (1949-)
  • Colonial Chesapeake Society, co-editor (1988, 1991, 2015)
  • Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake & Lowcountry (1998)
  • Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age, co-editor (2006)
  • Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, co-editor (2009)
• Morris, John Gottleib (1803-1895)
  • The Lords Baltimore (1874)
  • The Germans of Baltimore (1893)
• Morrow, Diane Batts (1947-)
  • Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860 (2003)
• Moyer, Teresa S. (1976-)
  • Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare (2015)

• Oberg, Michael Leroy (1964-)
  • Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism, Native America, and the First American Frontiers, 1585-1685 (2003)
• Olson, Sherry H.
  • Baltimore: The Building of an American City (1976, 1980)
• Owings, Donnell M.
  • His Lordship’s Patronage: Offices of Profit in Colonial Maryland (1953)
• Owsley, Douglas W. (1951-)
  • Written in Bone: Bone Biographer’s Casebook, co-author (2009)

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• Papenfuse, Edward C. (1943-)
  • In Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchants in the Era of the American Revolution, 1763-1805 (1975, 1984)
  • Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State, co-author (1976, 1999)
  • Law, Society & Politics: The Proceedings of the First Conference on Maryland History, co-author (1976)
  • An Inventory of Maryland State Papers, vol. 1: The Revolutionary War Era, 1775-1789, co-author (1977)
  • A Guide to the Maryland Hall of Records: Local, Judicial, and Administrative Records on Microfilm, co-author (1978)
  • A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, 2 vols, co-author. (1979, 1985)
  • The Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908, co-author (1982)
  • Six-Historical Maps of Annapolis (1983)
  • A Declaration of Maryland, co-author (1984)
  • A Relation of the Successful Beginnings of Lord Baltimore’s Plantation in Maryland (1984)
  • Magna Charta for America, co-author (1986)
  • Maryland: A History of Its People (1986)
  • An Historical List of Public Officials of Maryland: Governors, Legislators, and Other Principal Officers of Government, 1632-1990 (1990)
  • Charting the Chesapeake, co-editor (1990)
  • Doing Good to Posterity: The Move of the Capital of Maryland from St. Mary’s City to Anne Arundell Town, Now Called Annapolis (1995)
  • The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908, co-author (2003)
  • Lincoln in Annapolis, February 1865 (2009)
  • Maryland: A History, co-author (2018)

Historians at work, Search Room, State Archives, 350 Rowe Blvd., Annapolis, Maryland, May 2019. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

• Petersen, Peter B. (1933-2017)
  • The Great Baltimore Fire (2004)
• Petrie, George (1866-1947)
  • Church and State in Early Maryland (1892)
• Phillips, Christopher
  • Freedom’s Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860 (1997)
• Phillips, Thomas Leroy
  • The Orange Grove Story: A View of Maryland Americana in 1900 (1972)
• Pietila, Antero
  • Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (2010)
• Pole, J. R. (1922-2010)
  • Political Representation in England and the Origins of the American Republic (1966)
  • Abraham Lincoln and the American Commitment (1966)
  • The Seventeenth Century: The Sources of Legislative Power (1969)
  • The Revolution in America, 1754-1788 (1970)
  • Foundations of American Independence, 1763-1815 (1972)
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• Porter, Frank W., III (1947-)
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• Price, Jacob M. (1925-2015)
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• Zmora, Nurith (1950-)
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