Tag: Maryland
Our summer Friday series on the blog, The Press Reads, features short excerpts from recent JHUP books to whet your appetite and inspire timely additions to your summer reading list. First up, black-eyed susans and a trip Gettysburg from Bryan MacKay's A Year across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region. Bryan is…
Guest Post by Michael C. C. Adams Before Gettysburg and Vicksburg, we had Cincinnati and, more especially, Sharpsburg, Maryland. The repulse of Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicksburg to Ulysses S. Grant in early July 1863 are often seen as marking the high tide of the Confederacy. Yet any real hope…
Guest post by Ralph E. Eshelman “I have no hesitation in pronouncing that the whole of the Shores and Towns within this Vast Bay, not excepting the Capital itself will be wholly at your mercy, and subject if not to be permanently occupied, certainly to be successively insulted or destroyed at your Pleasure.” Rear Admiral…
Guest post by Ralph E. Eshelman “I have no hesitation in pronouncing that the whole of the Shores and Towns within this Vast Bay, not excepting the Capital itself will be wholly at your mercy, and subject if not to be permanently occupied, certainly to be successively insulted or destroyed at your Pleasure.” Rear Admiral…
Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. Guest post by Walter G. Ellison Anyone leafing through the recent Second Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia might notice that…
Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast. Guest post by Walter G. Ellison Anyone leafing through the recent Second Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Maryland and the District of Columbia might notice that…