The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1925.
Notes: Mentions Maryland only regarding farming in 1840 and peach orchards, but is useful since so many Pennsylvania Germans settled in Frederick County.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1933.
Notes: From barley to wool, Gray's great work is unsurpassed in its detail about farming from Maryland's founding to the Civil War.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Handwerker, Tom. "Something is Fishy Down on the Farm." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 13 (Harvest 1991): 18-19.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Pittman, LaVern. "Walnut Level: A Model Farm in Allegany County." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 3-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County
Pursell, Carroll W., Jr. "The Administration of Science in the Department of Agriculture, 1933-1940." Agricultural History 42 (1968): 231-240.
Notes: Henry A. Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of Agriculture, championed scientific research because he himself was scientist a hybrid corn breeder. Using emergency relief funds from the National Recovery Administration, Wallace, in 1934, transformed the small experiment station in Beltsville into a great national research center. The Bankhead-Jones Act then funded the basic research agenda.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Daniel, W. Harrison. Jimmie Foxx: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Dean, David M. "Meshach Browning: Bear Hunter of Allegany County, 1781-1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 73-83.
Notes: Meshach Browning was the author of an autobiography, <em>Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter</em>, that might more properly be seen as a tall tale wrapped around the framework of an actual life. Browning (1751-1859) inhabited the frontier in the westernmost part of Maryland that later became Garrett County. He claimed to have killed 400 bears in his career. For those attracted to the stories of Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyon, Meshach Browning's life offers entertaining reading.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Gorman, Bob. Double X: The Story of Jimmie Foxx--Baseball's Forgotten Slugger. New York: [Published by the author?], 1990.
Kurtz, Michael J. John Gottlieb Morris: Man of God, Man of Science. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century
Kurtz, Michael J. "Being a Renaissance Man in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore: John Gottlieb Morris." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 156-69.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
The McKaig Journal, a Confederate Family of Cumberland. Cumberland, MD: Allegheny County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Macht, Norman L. Jimmy Foxx. New York: Chelsea House, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Millikin, Mark R. Jimmie Foxx: The Pride of Sudlersville. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Notes: The story of Babe Ruth's Baltimore background is well known. Fewer remember that Hall of Famer and Ruth rival, Jimmy Foxx, hailed from Maryland's Eastern Shore. A star with the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, Foxx hit 58 home runs in 1932 and was that year's American League Most Valuable Player.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Padgett, James A., ed. "Rumsey Documents." Maryland Historical Magazine 32 (1937): 10-28, 136-55, 271-85.
Porter, Frank W. "John Widgeon: Naturalist, Curator and Philosopher." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Winter 1984): 325-331.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Reveal, James L. "Hugh Jones (1671-1702)--Calvert County Naturalist." Calvert Historian 1 (October 1984): 1-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County
Rogers, Ellen. "James Harris Rogers, Scientist." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 13 (July-August 1985): 31-34.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Rose, Lou, and Michael Marti. Arthur Storer of Lincolnshire, England and Calvert County, Maryland. Prince Frederick, MD: Calvert County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County
Turner, Ella May. James Rumsey, Pioneer in Steam Navigation. Scottdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1930.
Urbas, Anton. "Tony Urbas Has a Career Change." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 37-48.
"Watson Mondell Perrygo." The Record 31 - 32 (May - September 1984): 5-6.
Notes: Charles County naturalist.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Charles County
Bedini, Silvio A. The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of Science. Rev. ed. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1999.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Science and Technology
Clemens, Paul G.E. The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Eastern Shore, Eighteenth Century
Davidson, Thomas E. "Jacob Armstrong: Pioneer Black Capitalist on Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 4 (1986): 4-6.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore