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Historic Books on Local History

Maryland History, from Colony to State

  • A Puritan Colony in Maryland, by Daniel R. Randall, 1886
  • Annals of Baltimore, by Thomas W. Griffith, 1824

Early Colonial Industry

  • A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland, by Lawrence Wroth, 1922

Maryland in Times of War and Conflict

  • A Narrative of Events Which Occurred in Baltimore Town During the Revolutionary War, by Robert Purviance, Jr., 1849

Life & Culture in Everyday Early Maryland

  • Fifty Years in a Maryland Kitchen, by Mrs. Jane (Gilmor) Howard, 1873
  • Blooded Horses of Colonial Days, by Francis Barnum Culver, 1922

Early Medical Practices and Medicine in Maryland

  • The Medical Annals of Maryland, 1799-1899, by Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell, 1903

Crime, Law Enforcement & the Courts

  • Reminiscenses of Baltimore, by Marshall Jacob Frey, 1893
  • Annals of Baltimore
  • A narrative of events which occurred in Baltimore town during the Revolutionary War
  • Reminiscences of Baltimore
  • Blooded Horses of Colonial Days
  • PreserveCast is Where History & Historic Preservation Meet
  • Anchored in History – Stories of America’s Navy
  • Aberdeen Proving Ground’s Hidden History Podcast Series
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