On the banks of the Severn River, two miles from the Chesapeake Bay, is the city of Annapolis, the state capital of Maryland, the home of the United States Naval Academy, and many historical buildings and houses. Vintage postcards, both hand-tinted and black and white, take readers on a journey here from the 1900s through the 1950s. See the State House, the Liberty Tree, St. John's College, the Hammond-Harwood House, Peggy Stewart House, Brice House, the Naval Academy and take a ride on Chesapeake Bay.

German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives--both on the battlefield and on the home front--during the war. This collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home, provides a new angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants--men and women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering, motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement altogether. Although written by people with a variety of backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly German standpoint, the editors argue, casting doubt on the claim that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic antagonisms.

Vols. for 1946-57 include the annual Greeting card directory (title varies).