Mid-Maryland
Subtitle: a crossroads of history
By: edited by Michael A. Powell and Bruce A. Thompson.
Contributors: Powell, Michael A.; Thompson, Bruce A., 1962-
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Subjects: Catoctin Mountain Region (Md.) -- History -- Congresses; Frederick County (Md.) -- History -- Congresses; Frederick Region (Md.) -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Selected historical papers from three conferences hosted by the Catoctin Center for Regional Studies along with the National Park Service and Frederick Community College: the Millennium Crossroads conference, held Sept. 29-30, 2000; Crossroads in History: New Perspectives on the Catoctin Region, held in 2002; and Catoctin Crossroads: Folk Traditions and History in Mid-Maryland, held in 2004.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "I went down to the crossroads" : runaway slave strategies of colonial and early Federal-era Maryland African Americans / by Cheryl Fox; title: From slave to abolitionist : James W.C. Pennington of Washington County, Maryland / by Dean Herrin; title: Segregated salaries : the struggle to equalize teachers' salaries in Frederick County / by Bruce A. Thompson; title: Thoreau and his American hero : in support of John Brown's "raid" / by Jessica A. Cannon; title: "With her Southern sisters" : Frederick County and the election of 1860 / by Michael A. Powell; title: Frederick's Confederate son : Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General, C.S.A. / by Brian S. Baracz; title: War on the homefront : Sharpsburg residents during the Battle of Antietam / by Edith Wallace; title: Frederick's citizens : caring for the Civil War sick and wounded / by Kari Turner; title: Threatened treasures : creating endangered lists / by Mary McCarthy; title: Cultural resources management : a delicate balance : the Campbell Farmstead / by Katherine Grandine; title: Frederick's French connection at l'Hermitage on the Monocacy Battlefield : Victoire Vincendiere and French planter refugees from the slave revolt in Haiti in the 1790's / by Paula Stoner Reed; title: The Colonel Thomas Cresap standing stone project / by Francis Zumbrun.