CONTENTS:
Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell
“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland, ” Richard Bell
“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland, ” Jessica Millward
“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore, ” Martha S. Jones
“‘Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union’: The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent, ” Charles W. Mitchell
“Baltimore’s Secessionist Moment: Conservatism and Political Networks in the Pratt Street Riot and Its Aftermath, ” Frank Towers
“Abraham Lincoln, Civil Liberties, and Maryland, ” Frank J. Williams
“The Fighting Sons of ‘My Maryland’: The Recruitment of Union Regiments in Baltimore, 1861–1865, ” Timothy J. Orr
“‘What I Witnessed Would Only Make You Sick’: Union Soldiers Confront the Dead at Antietam, ” Brian Matthew Jordan
“Confederate Invasions of Maryland, ” Thomas G. Clemens
“Achieving Emancipation in Maryland, ” Jonathan W. White
“Maryland’s Women at War, ” Robert W. Schoeberlein
“The Failed Promise of Reconstruction, ” Sharita Jacobs Thompson
“‘F––k the Confederacy’: The Strange Career of Civil War Memory in Maryland after 1865, ” Robert J. Cook
Tentang Penulis
Charles W. Mitchell is the editor of Maryland Voices of the Civil War and author of Travels through American History in the Mid-Atlantic: A Guide for All Ages.Jean H. Baker is a former professor of history at Goucher College and the author of numerous books, including James Buchanan; Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography; and most recently, Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe.