"This volume reproduces and assembles 19 papers authored by past and present staff members of Anne Arundel County, Maryland's Lost Town Project. These articles have all been published in the pages of Maryland Archaeology, the journal of the Archaeological Society of Maryland over the last 12 years. They represent results obtained from archaeological investigations at a number of colonial sites, ranging in date from circa 1650 until 1780, and in types...

By an Act of the Legislature, 1777 Session, Chapter Twenty, all free males over eighteen were to take an Oath of Fidelity and Support to the State of Maryland, and inscribe their names, no later than 1 March 1778. Quaker, Mennonite, and "Tunker" males were to "solemnly and sincerely and truly declare and affirm" that they held to the principles expressed in the Oath, and were also to affix their names. The resulting lists of jurors (i.e., those who...

Religious conflicts had a pronounced effect on women and their families in early modern England, but our understanding of that impact is limited by the restrictions that prevented the open expression of religious beliefs in the post-Reformation years. More can be gleaned by shifting our focus to the New World, where gender relations and family formations were largely unhampered by the unsettling political and religious climate of England. In Maryland,...

From the Publisher: Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African American culture on the American cultural...