Your Maryland : Little-Known Histories from the Shores of the Chesapeake to the Foothills of the Allegheny Mountains /

"'Good evening, I'm Ric Cottom' is the well-recognized introduction to Your Maryland on WYPR. When, in 2001, Ric signed on to deliver a weekly segment on Maryland history during All Things Considered on WYPR, his was the first short-form radio spot the station featured. Ric narra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cottom, Ric, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Maryland.
Maryland > Biographies > Anecdotes.
Maryland > Histoire locale > Anecdotes.
Maryland > Histoire > Anecdotes.
Maryland > Biography > Anecdotes.
Maryland > History, Local > Anecdotes.
Maryland > History > Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Anecdotes.
Local history.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Voyage of Discovery
  • A much-disliked Captain John Smith explores the Chesapeake
  • Avalon
  • George Calvert's first attempt at colonization
  • The Murderous Career of John Dandy
  • An evil but indispensable gunsmith in St. Mary's City
  • Witchcraft in Maryland
  • This wasn't Massachusetts, but...
  • The Monster
  • Thomas Cresap terrorizes Pennsylvania and pronounces Philadelphia "one of the Prettyest Towns in Maryland"
  • The Blood-Red Flag
  • Eighteenth-century Chesapeake pirates were all too human
  • The Summer of '76
  • Democracy, and the lack of it, at the start of the American Revolution
  • The Revolutionary
  • Charles Willson Peale at Valley Forge
  • Privateers
  • Chesapeake sailors escape a British prison and join John Paul Jones aboard the Bonhommc Richard
  • The Mermaid
  • A generous British captain encounters a nest of American "pirates"
  • Mr. Smiths Ball
  • Baltimore belle Elizabeth Patterson scandalizes Washington society
  • The Most Hated Man in Maryland
  • Alexander Contee Hanson provokes the mob in 1812
  • The Scourge of the Chesapeake
  • Admiral George Cockburn arrives in the Chesapeake
  • A Frolic with the Yankees
  • An arrogant British aristocrat meets the Kent County militia
  • The Cool Hand and the Hothead
  • Robert Ross burns Washington and turns for Baltimore
  • Defenders
  • The bombardment of Fort McHenry
  • The Chasseur
  • An American privateer announces a blockade of Great Britain
  • The Battle of the Ice Mound
  • The last fight of the War of 1812
  • Jacob Gruber
  • Roger B. Taney's antislavery background
  • The Bear
  • Hunter Meshach Browning in Western Maryland
  • The Slave Breaker
  • An incident from the life of Frederick Douglass
  • Moses
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Gidu
  • Freed African Americans on the west coast of Africa encounter native superstition
  • The Vineyard Tournament
  • The origins of Maryland's state sport
  • The Rose of Westminster
  • Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore
  • Christiana
  • Fugitive slaves defend themselves in southern Pennsylvania
  • John Brown
  • The abolitionist finds immortality
  • April 19, 1861
  • The Pratt Street Riot
  • Clara's Boys
  • Clara Barton during the first days of the Civil War
  • Lost Sons
  • George Alfred Townsend encounters a bereaved mother looking for her boys
  • Barbara Frietschie
  • The story behind the poem
  • The Despot's Heel
  • Who were those men on Federal Hill?
  • The Glorious Fourth ... 1863
  • In Baltimore on an historic day
  • The Orator
  • The prelude to the Gettysburg Address
  • Color Guard
  • The heroism of "a regiment of slaves"
  • The Music of Point Lookout
  • A poet brings solace amid the misery at Point Lookout prison camp
  • Hetty Cary
  • A beautiful woman, a battle flag, and the state song
  • The Great Patapsco Flood of 1868
  • Destruction and heroism on the Patapsco River
  • Ghosts of Western Maryland
  • Light-hearted stories of unnatural things
  • Early Racing at Pimlico
  • How the Preakness began
  • Preakness
  • The legacy of a great horse
  • The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Part I
  • The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Part II
  • Gus Rice
  • The Oyster Wars on the Chesapeake
  • The Maestro
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky performs in Baltimore
  • The Heiress and the Medical School
  • Mary Elizabeth Garrett refuses to take "no" for an answer
  • The Pennant
  • The halcyon years of the Baltimore Orioles, 1894-1896
  • The Evil Empire
  • Good vs. Evil in 1897
  • Mouse
  • A mischievous musical genius rises out of Baltimore
  • Goliath
  • The equine hero of the Great Baltimore Fire
  • The Jungle
  • Upton Sinclair and the meatpacking industry
  • The Explorer
  • Matthew Henson at the North Pole
  • The Aviator
  • A devil-may-care pilot thrills Baltimore
  • Diamond Jim
  • The wages of excess
  • The Babe
  • A product of St. Mary's Industrial School goes to spring training
  • Titanic
  • A Baltimore story of the great tragedy-with a happy ending
  • The Great Bathtub Hoax
  • H. L. Mencken has a bit of fun with a gullible nation
  • The Last Man
  • Henry Gunther, of Highlandtown, becomes the "last man" to die in World War I
  • Maryland, the Free State
  • Prohibition? Not here...
  • Leander
  • A Navy crew goes to the Olympics
  • The Schneider Cup Race of 1915
  • The golden age of airplane racing comes to Bay Shore Park
  • Cab and Thurgood
  • Two high-school kids in segregated Baltimore
  • Wallis
  • Young, poor, Wallis Warfield gets her start
  • Hatrack
  • H. L. Mencken and the Boston Watch and Ward Society
  • The Crack-up
  • Scott and Zelda
  • King Kong
  • The Great Ape's connection to Catonsville
  • Omaha Beach
  • The Twenty-Ninth Division at Normandy
  • Canajoharie at the Gut
  • A war story
  • Tunnel Joe
  • A resourceful and irrepressible prisoner digs his way out of the state penitentiary
  • Johnny U.
  • How the greatest quarterback in football history came to the Baltimore Colts
  • The Greatest Football Game Ever Played
  • The 1958 NFL championship game
  • Silent Spring
  • The courage of Rachel Carson.

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