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Author
Series
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Antietam is the third in a series of novels spanning the Civil War and describing its effects on one southern family, the Brannons. Mac, a Brannon son and a gifted horseman, joins Jeb Stuart's cavalry and soon finds himself on one of the great adventures of the war.
3) Maryland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of Maryland, from its earliest beginnings in the seventeenth century up to the end of the eighteenth century, following the American Revolution.
Author
Publisher
Humanity Books/Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
“My Bondage and My Freedom”, by Frederick Douglass. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
• Footnotes and endnotes
• Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired...
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the Underground Railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Georgeanna "Georgey" Woolsey isn't meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront a bother. In proving them wrong, she and her sister Eliza venture from New York to Washington, D.C., to Gettysburg and witness the unparalleled horrors of slavery as they become involved in the...
11) Circle of spies
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
1865--Marietta Hughes never wanted to be a spy, but the family legacy of espionage is thrust upon her as the War Between the States rolls on. Unknown to her, the Knights of the Golden Circle--a Confederate secret society bent on destroying the Union her brother died for--has been meeting in a hidden lair beneath her home. Faced with the secrets of her late husband and his brother, whom she thought she could trust with anything, Marietta's world tilts...
12) Maryland
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Covers the history of the colony's growth from the time early European explorers visited the new world until the colony's ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Include black-and-white photographs, maps and a graph within chapters, a time live, list of historical sites in the state, further reading list, and an index. William Claiborne established settlements on Kent Island, and Leonard Calvert settled at Saint Mary's City. Maryland opens with a general...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.
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Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Sally M. Walker brings colonial American history to life through the discovery of an important homestead in seventeenth-century Maryland. She follows the painstaking work of scientists and historians to coax fascinating stories out of the long-crumbled walls.
Author
Series
Publisher
SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title examines the history of the Indianapolis Colts, telling the story of the franchise and its top players, greatest games, and most thrilling moments. This book includes informative sidebars, high-energy photos, a timeline, a team file, and a glossary. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
Author
Series
Daughters of the Potomac volume 3
Publisher
Abington Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, comes the fourth installment in The Starbuck Chronicles, an exciting novel which vividly captures the horror of the battle field. It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America.
Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher's son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion - a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Learning of a Confederate plan to retake the port city of Baltimore, Union marshal Branden Rolfe, an Austrian immigrant determined to keep the United States from becoming a divided nation, places spies within the Sons of Liberty organization.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of the extraordinary abolitionist, liberator, and writer Thomas Smallwood, who bought his own freedom, led hundreds out of slavery, and named the underground railroad, from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Scott Shane. Flee North tells the story for the first time of an American hero all but lost to history." --publisher's website.