General Topics

Johns Hopkins University Press Baseball in Baltimore: The First Hundred Years

De Kalb: One of the Revolutionary War's Bravest Generals

The Charcoal Club of Baltimore

F is for Friendship: A Quilt Alphabet

Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story

Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm, and Race

Black Lives in Focus: Part III: Jim Crow - Barack Obama

Black Lives in Focus: Part II: The Civil War & Reconstruction

Black Lives in Focus: Part I: Colonial-Antebellum America

Old West Baltimore

Captives and Countrymen

First published in 1808, Horrors of Slavery is the tale of one such sailor, captured during the United States's first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War.