"To Cherish and Preserve the Old Ideals of Southern Chivalry" : Jousting and the Evolution of Southernness in Maryland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

The paper examines the evolving cultural values in Late nineteenth-century Maryland. The development of tournaments between 1840 and 1910 reveals the state's evolving sense of southernness over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Digitization of this thesis was made possible by a generous grant from the Jefferson Trust, 2015.