The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Sotterley Plantation." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 27.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Mohrhardt, Foster E. "The Library of the United States Department of Agriculture." The Library Quarterly 27 (April 1957): 61-82.
Categories: Agriculture, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Noll, Linda. "The Steppingstone Museum: A Step Back in Time." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 145-47.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Wiser, P. Vivian. "Select Bibliography on History of Agriculture in Maryland." National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, Associates NAL Today 1 (October 1976): 55-85.
Categories: Agriculture, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Arnold, Joseph L. The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1971.
Notes: Considering the variety of Maryland's various planned communities - Columbia, Bowie, Greenbelt and Roland Park - it is important to appreciate how each was distinctive. At its conception, Greenbelt, along with several other communities planned and built by Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration, represented the social experimentation associated with New Deal. According to the author: "the greenbelt towns were built to demonstrate that urban expansion by the construction of complete new towns would provide superior safety, convenience, beauty, and a deep sense of community spirit - all at a new low cost. These new suburban towns would therefore provide a superior environment for families heretofore condemned to live in urban slums. New towns would stop urban decay and end economic segregation of the suburbs." (p. xii) What was radical was the comprehensive scope of the enterprise, the creation of co-operative businesses to serve the community, and the fact that the federal government maintained ownership. This study ends with the implementation of Public Law 65 (1949) which transferred ownership of most of the houses to a private co-operative.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County, Prince George's County
Berryman, Jack W. "John S. Skinner's American Farmer: Breeding and Racing the Maryland 'Blood Horse,' 1819-1829." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Summer 1981): 159-73.
Berryman, Jack W. "John Stuart Skinner and the American Farmer, 1819-1829: An Early Proponent of Rural Sports." Associates NAL Today, new series, 1 (October 1976): 11-32.
Bishko, Lucretia Ramsey. "Lafayette and the Maryland Agricultural Society:1824-1832." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 45-67.
Boccaccio, Mary. "Maryland at the St. Louis World's Fair." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 347-354.
Notes: Boccaccio profiles the Maryland state exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, organized to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase one hundred years earlier. Drawing upon papers in the library of the University of Maryland College Park, she chronicles the efforts of William Amoss, who assembled the agricultural and horticultural products for a display which celebrated the state's western, southern, and central regions.
Brooks, Richard. "Social Planning in Columbia." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 37 (1971): 373-378.
Notes: An evaluation of the planned community of Columbia at an early point in its development, the article contends that the transition from vision to implementation involves a series of social dilemmas. These included the shift from company town to "thriving democratic polity," the potential conflict between the vision of a new form of urban community versus the prevailing attraction of the suburban ideal, and questions about the appropriate balance between residential and commercial functions in a presumably "post-industrial" society. Brooks wonders whether the failure by the planner and many early residents to face up to the challenges of these dilemmas may represent a "heroic failure" for Columbia.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County
McIntosh, J. Rieman. A History of the Elkridge Fox Hunting Club, The Elkridge Hounds, the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club 1878-1978. Monkton, MD: Published by the author, 1978.
Menard, Russell R. "Population, Economy, and Society in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 71- 92.
Notes: Menard examines some of the complex social and economic patterns underlying the rapid population growth of Maryland during the seventeenth century despite strong in-migration, high mortality, a shortage of females, and later marriage which often produced unstable family life. Tobacco exports rose dramatically, but the economy eventually suffered from over-dependence on a single crop. Though the colony was established with aristocratic goals, immigrants and their offspring initially created a social and economic pattern in which small planters predominated. However, by the century's end a new gentry class clearly had emerged in an order characterized by greater dependence on slave labor, a decline of indentured servitude, and heightened degrees of inequality.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Feeding Eighteenth-Century Tidewater Town Folk, or, Whence the Beef?" Agricultural History 73 (Summer 1999): 267-80.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
"Thomas Viaduct Monument a Disgrace." The Sentinel 18 (Spring 1996): 28.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Howard County
Travers, Edwin Xavier. "Brief History of Howard County Post Offices." Howard County Historical Society Newsletter 32 (June 1989): 4.
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth Century Maryland." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series 34 (October 1977): 542-71.
Notes: Most women coming to Maryland in the seventeenth century were indentured servants between ages eighteen and twenty-five. Hard work in the tobacco fields, late marriage, and early death awaited them. However, for the woman who survived seasoning and their period of service, the sexual imbalance let them choose her husband and seize the opportunity to become a planter's wife. She risked childbirth, bore three to four children, and hoped one or two lived to adulthood. Widows remarried quickly, and complex families were the norm.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century
Hood, Margaret School. Margaret School Hood Diary, 1851-1861. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992.
Categories: Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Lawson, Joanne Seale. "Remarkable Foundations: Rose Ishbel Greely, Landscape Architect." Washington History 10 (Spring 1998): 46-69.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Women, Twentieth Century
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Therese O'Malley." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 12-15.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century
Smith, Ora Pumphrey. "An Old Anne Arundel County Love Story." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (October 1991): 8-9.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Walters, R. Eugenia. "Some Reminiscences of Miss R. Eugenia Walters." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 21 (May 1994): [6-10].
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Women, Twentieth Century, Howard County, Prince George's County
Bergstrom, Peter V. "Leah and Rachel Revisited: Everyday Life in the Colonial Chesapeake." Reviews in American History 12 (1984): 176-181.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Other
Burton, Arthur G., and Richard W. Stephenson. "John Ballendine's Eighteenth-century Map of Virginia." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 21 (1964): 172-178.
Categories: Agriculture, Geography and Cartography, Eighteenth Century, Other
Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "The Smith Farm Survives Mid-Century Agricultural Decline." Anne Arundel County History Notes 31 (January 2000): 3-4, 12-14.
Categories: Agriculture, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Other
Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "The Smith Farm Survives Mid-Century Agricultural Decline-Conclusion." Anne Arundel County History Notes 31 (April 2000): 3-4, 8-10.
Categories: Agriculture, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Other