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Baseball on Maryland's Eastern Shore, 1866-1950

Author : Marty Payne

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 16,72 MB

Release : 2023-10-06

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1476650330

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By 1900 Maryland's Eastern Shore, along the western side of the Delmarva Peninsula, was acknowledged in the national press as a hotbed of baseball activity. By the 1920s the game was fully ingrained into local community life, central to the summer social season among the towns and villages that measured their worth by the quality of their teams. Providing fresh insight into early 20th century baseball at its grassroots, this book explores the Chesapeake Bay region as a case study for the enthusiasm (and hubris) the game brought to rural American life, in context with national trends and influences.





America, History and Life

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Publisher :

Page : 410 pages

File Size : 42,54 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Canada

ISBN :

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Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.



Maryland, A Middle Temperament

Author : Robert J. Brugger

Publisher : JHU Press

Page : 868 pages

File Size : 34,39 MB

Release : 1996-09-25

Category : History

ISBN : 9780801854651

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Explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state"its special character. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Maryland: A Middle Temperament explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state" its special character. Extensively illustrated and accompanied by bibliography, maps, charts, and tables, Robert Brugger's vivid account of the state's political, economic, social, and cultural heritage—from the outfitting of Cecil Calvert's expedition to the opening of Baltimore's Harborplace—is rich in the issues and personalities that make up Maryland's story and explain its "middle temperament."



Holloways of the Eastern Shore and Descendants Near & Far, 1066-1985

Author : Bessie Gibbes Cheatham Holloway

Publisher : Southern Coastal Family Planning

Page : 572 pages

File Size : 42,1 MB

Release : 1985

Category : Reference

ISBN :

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John Holloway (1580-1643) emigrated from England to Accomack (later Northampton) County, Virginia during or before 1633/1634. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in England to 1066 A.D.





Albion's Seed

Author : David Hackett Fischer

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 981 pages

File Size : 15,38 MB

Release : 1991-03-14

Category : History

ISBN : 019974369X

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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.



Eastern Shore Road Trips (Vol. 2)

Author : Jim Duffy

Publisher :

Page : 356 pages

File Size : 39,91 MB

Release : 2019-07

Category : History

ISBN : 9780997800548

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Join award-winning writer Jim Duffy as he ventures out in search of the heart and soul of the storied Delmarva Peninsula--wandering along backroads, visiting Chesapeake islands, touring quaint towns, and strolling beaches and parks. A follow-up to the regional bestseller "Eastern Shore Road Trips," "Eastern Shore Road Trips 2" serves up 26 all-new excursions that mix itineraries full of insider tips with fascinating stories from days gone by. The author is the co-founder of Secrets of the Eastern Shore, the go-to online source among locals and tourists alike for travel tips and engaging stories about the region. Whether you are a road tripper or an armchair traveler, "Eastern Shore Road Trips 2" is sure to give you a fresh sense for what makes the Delmarva Peninsula such a timeless American treasure. In every chapter, the book delves into the fascinating events and key personalities that shaped the destination at hand. Trips are evenly divided among the lower, middle, and upper parts of the peninsula, which covers the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the state of Delaware. Helpful maps provide a general sense for the geography of each trip.



Hoosiers and the American Story

Author : Madison, James H.

Publisher : Indiana Historical Society

Page : 359 pages

File Size : 20,50 MB

Release : 2014-10

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0871953633

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A supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.