Historian
Any reading list is idiosyncratic. Here are seven African-American history books I especially recommend. What they have in common is that each reveals a vast amount about black history as part of American history. In one way …
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If you share my love of local history in western Maryland—especially African-American history—of public history and teaching, or of medieval English history, I hope you’ll find a trove of interesting stuff here. I’m going to …
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Local Slave Life When St. Mark’s Episcopal Church-Lappans, about six miles south of Hagerstown, Maryland, was founded in 1849, all eight of the church’s charter members owned slaves, and the original plans for the …
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