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Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1767, MSA SC 2221-1-17
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Includes maps and documents relating to the first encounters of the English
settlers and explorers with Native Americans. The objective is to introduce
students to how explorers, settlers, and Native Americans reacted to, and
learned from one another.
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Includes the Maryland Act of Toleration, 1649, inventories of estates,
and a discussion of documents relating to the career of the only person
(a Jew) prosecuted under the Toleration Act.
The
Strength of our Diversity, 1634-1900, MSA SC 2221-1-19
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Includes images and documents mostly focused on immigration which reveal
the ethnic, racial, economic, and religious diversity in Maryland. This
packet is a sampler of documentary sources, both text and graphics.
Religious
Toleration in Maryland, April 21, 1649 MSA
SC 2221-25
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An Interpretation and Tribute to the Citizen Legislators of Maryland. Includes
Maryland Act of Toleration, 1649, original and transcription, and An Act
for the Relief of the Jews in Maryland, 1825.
Opening
Day: Maryland Centennial Legislatures of 1700, 1800, and 1900 MSA
SC 2221-27
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A look at what was happening in the Maryland General Assembly in 1700,
1800 and 1900 through newspapers, proceedings and session laws of the time
period.
All
the News, 1765-1775,
MSA SC 2221-1-21
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Events leading to the American Revolution are seen through news reports
in the Maryland Gazette. Samuel Chase's broadside which the Gazette
refused to print is included. The newspapers are also an excellent source
for the study of eighteenth century life.
From
Indignant Protest to Hesitant Revolutionaries: Maryland and the American
Revolution, 1765-1776, MSA SC 2221-1-2
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Includes issues of the Maryland Gazette at the time of the Stamp
Act Crisis. Also includes the account of the burning of the Peggy Stewart,
the Olive Branch Petition signed by three of Maryland's signers of the
Declaration of Independence, Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration
of Independence, and letters from a Maryland soldier at the Battle of Long
Island.
Letter,
M. Monsey to Daniel Dulany, 1770.
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A letter from Dr. Messenger Monsey, physician to his friend Daniel Dulany
describing his physical condition as well as that of some of his patients.
Include biographical data on Monsey and Dulany, images and transcripts
of the letters. MSA
SC 4885-1-27
Captain
Berry's Will - 1784 MSA SC 2221-1-28
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Original probate records relating to the estate of Captain William Berry
taken from from Maryland State Archives PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY REGISTER
OF WILLS (Orphan's Court Proceedings) 1777-1790. MSA C 1275-1. Compiled
and transcribed by Carson Gibb, Ph.D. MSA SC 5228. Publication
No. 2080
Writing
It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the Nation,
1776-1833 MSA SC 2221-1-4
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Includes documents leading to the Maryland Declaration of Rights and the
first State Constitution, as well as those which relate to Maryland's role
in the creation and ratification of the proposed first twelve amendments
to the U.S. Constitution (two were never ratified). It traces the subsequent
definition of such individual rights as the right to hold office by non-Christians
as defined by constitutional amendment (the Jew Bill) and due process as
defined by the courts (Barron v. Baltimore).
George
Washington's Farewell Address, September 17, 1796 MSA
SC 2221-1-29
This special edition of George Washington's Farewell Address is imaged
from the 1796 Session Laws of Maryland in the State Law Library. It was
provided by the State Archives at the request of Governor Glendening to
accompany his Washington's Birthday Address before the Maryland Senate
in Special Session in the Old Senate Chamber, on February 21, 2000.
The
Perils of Reading: Samuel Green and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's
Cabin., MSA SC 2221-1-22
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Samuel Green, a Dorchester County free man of color, was arrested and jailed
for possession of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). This packet explores freedom
of speech and of the press in a slave state during the 1850s. This packet
is based on the work of Rick Blondo, "Samuel Green: A Black's Life in Antebellum
Maryland," unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1988.
In
Readiness To Do Every Duty Assigned, MSA SC 2221-1-30
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The Frederick Militia and John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, October
17-18, 1859. Edited with an Introduction by Gregory A. Stiverson. A Jacobsen
Conference On Maryland History document.
In
the Aftermath of 'Glory': Black Soldiers & Sailors from Annapolis Maryland,
1863-1918,
MSA SC 2221-1-8
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Examines what happens to Black soldiers who survive the Civil War by tracing
their careers through public and private records. Includes maps, contemporary
accounts, census records, probate records, court depositions, and Federal
pension files. It relates the soldiers to the efforts to expand and then
restrict the suffrage ending with the voting rights cases of 1915 which
involved a Civil War soldier from Annapolis.
Celebrating
Rights and Responsibilities: Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May
19, 1870, MSA SC 2221-1-18
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Includes documents and images relating to the ratification and celebration
of the 15th Amendment in Baltimore, including a speech given by Frederick
Douglass.
The
Road from Frederick to Thurgood: Black Baltimore in Transition, 1870-1920,MSA
S 1259-121-6050
Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895), and Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993),
two of America's towering historical figures, serve as examples of black
Baltimore personified. Douglass, a migrant slave in the city, received
his life's education on the streets and from the people of black Baltimore
during the 1820s and 1830s. His Baltimore experience shaped his life. His
life shaped nineteenth century American History. Likewise, a full century
later, the young native Baltimorean, Marshall, was shaped by the experience
of being a part of the black Baltimore community. Both men were products
of this community, though their Baltimore realities were separated by nearly
a century. What continuity is documentable in Baltimore which could produce
a Thurgood Marshall nearly a century after it had produced a Frederick
Douglass? What changes occurred in this elapse of time as well? These are
the questions and ideas at the foundation of The Road From Frederick
To Thurgood.
The
Baltimore Railroad Strike & Riot of 1877, MSA
SC 2221-1-9
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Includes almost all of the issues of the Baltimore Sun dealing with
the strike and riot, as well as official documents and a contemporary history
of the events.
From
Segregation to Integration: The Donald Murray Case, 1935-1937,MSA
SC 2221-1-11
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Concentrates on efforts to integrate higher education in Maryland from
1934 to 1937 with emphasis on Thurgood Marshall, Lillie May Jackson, William
I. Gosnell, Charles Houston, and Donald Murray's successful attempt to
integrate the University of Maryland Law School.
Is
Baltimore Burning?, MSA SC 2221-1-12
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Includes newspaper and other accounts of the Cambridge riot of 1967, the
Baltimore riot of 1968, selections from Governor Agnew's papers relating
to both events including the Cambridge speech and subsequent trial of H.
Rap Brown, and the Goldseker Foundation report Baltimore 2000.
Reference
Materials prepared for the Consideration of the Commission on the Thurgood
Marshall Memorial Statue in Annapolis. MSA
S1259-121-6259
Civil
Rights in Maryland. MSA SC 2221-1-23
A Guide to archival resources for the study of Civil Rights in Maryland
and America including links to other Documents for the Classroom packets
and specifically selected materials.
For further information about Documents for the Classroom write the Maryland State Archives, 350 Rowe Boulevard, Annapolis, MD 21401, call MD toll free (800) 235-4045 or (410) 260-6400, or email archives@mdsa.net
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