Maryland State Archives

This Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland provides a brief but comprehensive overview of the history of slavery in the state. built upon the most recent scholarship, this guide offers teachers and students a starting point with which to begin their own exploration of an institution that, in so many ways, has made their world.

"Doing Good to Posterity" places the movement of the capital in its cultural and political environment. The booklet reexamines the motivations to move the capital and appraises the trans-Atlantic influences of baroque town planning on the design of the new city. Edward C Papenfuse has contributed to Doing Good to Posterity: The Move of the Capital of Maryland from St. Mary's City to Anne Arundell Towne, Now Called Annapolis as an author. Edward C....

Providence -- 1649 opens a fascinating window on the material culture of daily life in the seventeenth-century Puritan settlement on the Severn River. Using artifacts from Maryland and Dutch paintings, this booklet reveals the significance of Dutch goods and building techniques in colonial Maryland.