Check out the website, http://www.acadianswerehere.org. It is arranged geographically and is full of photos and text prepared for researchers and tourists by our state team of Marie Rundquist, R. Martin Guidry, and Gregory Wood.
SPECIALIZED LIBRARIES:
Maryland State Archives, 350 Rowe Boulevard, Annapolis, MD 21401 (https://msa.maryland.gov)
Maryland Center for History and Culture, 610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201 (library and museum, http://www.mdhistory.org)
Montgomery History, Jane C. Sween Library, 42 W. Middle Lane, Rockville, MD 20850 (appointments) (https://montgomeryhistory.org)
St. Mary’s Historic Site (displays on Francophones/Mother Seton House), 600 N. Paca Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 (http://stmaryspacast.org/)
St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Associated Archives, 5400 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21210 (appointments only; archives@stmarys.edu)
RECOMMENDED READING
GENERAL HISTORY:
Taylor, Alan. American Colonies: The Settling of North America. Edited by Eric Foner. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
Taylor, Alan. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2021.
Taylor, Alan. American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2016.
Woodard, Colin. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. New York: Penguin Books, 2011 and 2022.
ACADIANS:
Brasseaux, Carl A. The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.
Comeau, Philip, Perrin, Warren, and Perrin, Mary Broussard (eds.). Acadie Then and Now: A People’s History/Acadie Hier et Aujourd’hui: L’Histoire d’un Peuple. Opelousas, LA: Andrepont Publishing, LLC, and Acadian Heritage and Cultural Foundation, 2014.
Delaney, Paul. La Liste de Winslow Expliquée. Ed. and trans. Serge Patrice Thibodeau. Moncton, New Brunswick: Les Éditions Perce-Neige, 2020.
Faragher, John Mack. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005.
Mahaffie, Charles D. Jr. A Land of Discord Always. Camden, ME: Down East Books, 1995.
White, Stephen A. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. 2 vols. Moncton, NB : Centre d’études acadiennes/Université de Moncton, 1999.
AMERICA AND FRANCE:
Furstenberg, François. When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation. New York: The Penguin Press, 2014. [concentrates on the city of Philadelphia]
Kennedy, Roger G. Orders from France: THE Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World, 1780-1820. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Levasseur, Auguste. Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825: Journal of a Voyage to the United States. Translated by Alan R. Hoffman. Manchester, NH: Lafayette Press, Inc., 2006.
McCullough, David. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. (a must-read for all who studied abroad!]
BALTIMORE:
Crenson, Matthew A. Baltimore: A Political History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
MARYLAND RELIGIOUS HISTORY:
Kauffman, Christopher J. Tradition and Transformation in Catholic Culture: The Priests of Saint Sulpice in the United States from 1791 to the Present. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988.
Morrow, Diane Batts. Persons of Color and Religious at the Same Time: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
O’Donnell, Catherine. Elizabeth Seton: American Saint. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.
Shaw, Richard. John Dubois: Founding Father. Emmitsburg, MD: Mount St. Mary’s University, 1983; Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017.
BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE ACADIAN MUSEUM OF ERATH, LA:
Perrin, Warren A. Acadian Redemption – From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen’s Royal Proclamation. Opelousas, LA: Andrepont Printing, Inc., 2004, 2005.
Perrin, Warren A. Une Saga Acadienne, 1755-2003. Opelousas, LA: Andrepont Publishing, Inc., 2009. [translation of Acadian Redemption]
Perrin, Warren A., Perrin Mary B., and Comeau, Phil. Acadie Then and Now: A People’s History. Opelousas, LA: Andrepont Publishing, LLC, 2014.
Perrin, Warren A., Perrin, Mary B., and Comeau, Phil. L’Acadie Hier et Aujourd’hui: L’histoire d’un peuple. Opelousas, LA: Andrepont Publishing, LLC, 2014. [translation of Acadie Then and Now]
Perrin, Warren A. and Mary B. Seeking an Acadian Nation: The 1930 Diary of an Evangeline Girl. Opelousas, LA: Andrepont Publishing, LLC, 2019.
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