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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.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "Anne Arundel's Famous Green-Meat Cantaloupes." Anne Arundel County History Notes 27 (July 1996): 3-4, 8-10.

Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.

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.

Helmann, Susan K. "'Celebrating 150 Years.'" Passport to the Past 3 (July/August 1992): 1-2, 5.
Notes: Prince George's County fair.

Kelbaugh, Jack. "The Wild Cranberries of Anne Arundel County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (April 1991): 5-6.

Lanham, Paul. "A 'Pie-in-The Sky' Dream." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 25 (May 1997): 3.

McCauley, Donald. The Limits of Change in the Tobacco South: An Economic and Social Analysis of Prince George's County, Maryland, 1840-1860. M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1973.

McCauley, Donald. "The Urban Impact on Agricultural Land Use: Farm Patterns in Prince George's County, Maryland 1860-1880." Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland. Edited by Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, 228-47. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Mumford, Willard R. Strawberries, Peas & Beans: Truck Farming in Anne Arundel County. Linthicum, MD: Ann Arundel County Historical Society, 2000.

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.

Virta, Alan. "This Spirit for Improvement." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 11 (July-August 1983): 33-35.

Walsh, Jim. "Barrels for a 'Middling Planter' in Colonial Prince George's County." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 25 (August/September 1997): 2-4.

Aleshire, William. "Maryland's Patriotic Signer of Continental Currency: The Forgotten Peale." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 14 (April 1986): 15-16.
Notes: St. George Peale.

Althoff, Susanne. "Not Ready to Retire." Annapolis 7 (December 1993): 38-42, 44-45.

Andrews, F. Ethel. Miss Ethel Remembers. Shady Side, MD: Shady Side Rural Heritage Society, 1991.

Callcott, Margaret Law. "The Calvert-Custis Connection." Riversdale Letter 14 (Spring 1997): 3.

Clark, Margaret. "Before Meade Village: The Charles Clark Farm." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 20.

"Commodore Barney-A Sidelight." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 21 (November 1994): 2-7.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "Larkin Rodolphus Shipley: Northern Anne Arundel County Farmer-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (July 1998): 3-4, 14-15; "Part II-Crisis and Recovery." Anne Arundel County History Notes 30 (October 1998): 5-6, 11-12.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "Window to the Past: Burton Kelbaugh's Recollections of Ridge Road." Anne Arundel County History Notes 30 (January 1999): 4, 10-13.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley, ed. "Window to the Past: Ridge Road c.1940-Recollections of H. Burton Kelbaugh-Part II." Anne Arundel County History Notes 30 (April 1999): 3-4, 9-11.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "The Recollections of James W. Shipley: Growing Up on the I. L. Shipley Brothers Farm-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 3, 13-16; Part II, 26 (July 1995): 5, 10-13.

"Davy Burns or the Young Heiress." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 21 (March 1994): [5].

Ferguson, Ann M. "Heritage of Another Riversdale Family." Riverdale Town Crier 26 (March 1997): 3.

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