The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Ellis, Donna M., and Karen A. Stuart. The Calvert Papers: Calendar and Guide to the Microfilm Edition. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1989.
Notes: An item-level detailed finding aid, over 200 pages in length, to one of the Maryland Historical Society's most important collections. Includes a history of the collection.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Pyatt, Timothy, Dean Yates, and Stephanie Thorson. "Devices and Desires: Realizing Wider Understanding and Access to Maryland's Recorded Heritage." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Winter 1992): 436-52.
Notes: This article describes, at the series level, collections housed by the Maryland State Archives. It is the only identified major Maryland Historical Magazine article to present holdings of the Archives or of any other institution that is not the Maryland Historical Society.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Radoff, Morris L. "Early Annapolis Records." Maryland Historical Magazine 35 (March 1940): 74-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Worcester County Library. Guide to the William D. Pitts Collection. Snow Hill, MD: Worcester County Library, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Booth, Sally Smith. Seeds of Anger: Revolts in America, 1607-1771. New York: Hastings House, 1977.
Notes: Includes chapter on Maryland.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Callcott, George H. Maryland Political Behavior: Four Centuries of Political Culture. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society and Maryland State Archives, 1986.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Carr, Lois Green. County Government in Maryland, 1689-1709. New York: Garland Publishers, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Carr, Lois Green. "The Development of the Maryland Orphan's Court, 1654-1715." In Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland. Edited by Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, 41-62. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Carr, Lois Green. "The Foundations of Social Order: Local Government in Colonial Maryland." In Town and Country: Essays on the Structure of Local Government in the American Colonies. Edited by Bruce C. Daniels, 72-110. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1978, pp. 72-110.
Notes: The structure, powers and functions of local government, which were established in the seventeenth century lasted well into the twentieth century with only slight changes. Based upon English precedents, local power was vested in a system of county courts, and power was not shared with parish vestries until establishment of the Anglican Church in 1692, and even then the vestry never attained the influence it did in Virginia. For most of this time the justices sitting as a group in the county court exercised executive power. During the instability of the Glorious Revolution, the county courts continued to function. Given the high mortality in the seventeenth century, service was not restricted to men who were wealthy or well connected, although that would change in the next century.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Carter, Edward C., II and, Clifford Lewis, III. "Sir Edmund Plowden and the New Albion Charter, 1632-1785." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 83 (1959): 150-179.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Day, Alan F. "Lawyers in Colonial Maryland, 1660-1715." American Journal of Legal History 17 (1973): 145-165.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Day, Alan F. A Social Study of Lawyers in Maryland, 1660-1775. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1989.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Dinkin, Robert J. Voting in Provincial America: A Study of Elections in the Thirteen Colonies 1689-1776, Contributions in American History, no. 64. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Notes: References to Maryland.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Douglass, John E. "Between Pettifoggers and Professionals: Pleaders and Practitioners and the Beginnings of the Legal Profession in Colonial Maryland, 1634-1731." American Journal of Legal History 39 (July 1995): 359-84.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Eldridge, Larry D. The Growth of Free Speech in Early America: The Seventeenth Century. Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1990.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Everstine, Carl N. "Maryland's Toleration Act: An Appraisal." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Summer 1984): 99-116.
Notes: Considered from afar, Maryland's Toleration Act (1649) reinforces the nation's long tradition of religious toleration and moderation; or does it? After examining the wording of the act, and the history of toleration prior to 1649, the author points out that the act was repealed in 1654, and, while the repeal was itself repealed soon after, toleration would continue in force only until 1696, when the Church of England was established as the sole religious establishment in the Province. Caught in the rivalry between the resurgent Puritans and the Catholics at mid-century, religious toleration was on shaky grounds from the beginning. With the ascendancy of the Anglican Church in 1696, things grew worse for Catholics, and more legislation was adopted in the ensuing years restricting their ability to practice their religion publicly. Religious toleration for Christians was re-introduced in the state Constitution of 1776 and expanded to include Jews fifty years later.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. Advice and Ascent: The Development of the Maryland Assembly, 1635-1689. Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1976.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. Advice and Ascent: The Development of the Maryland General Assembly, 1635-1689. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Geiger, Marilyn L. The Administration of Justice in Colonial Maryland. New York: Garland Publishers, 1987.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Gleissner, Richard A. "The Revolutionary Settlement of 1691 in Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 66 (1971): 405-419.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Jordan, David W. "Elections and Voting in Early Colonial Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (Fall 1982): 238-65.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Jordan, David W. "'God's Candle' Within Government: Quakers and Politics in Early Maryland." William and Mary Quarterly 3d series, 39 (October 1982): 628-54.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century
Jordan, David W. "John Coode, Perennial Rebel." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 1-28.
Notes: A biography of John Coode, for whom any cause became an unrestrained assault on his opponents, and who became a Protestant scourge to the Catholic establishment in the late seventeenth century. His contradictory career is chronicled and typified by his perennial resistance to authority.
Jordan, David W. "Maryland's Privy Council, 1637-1715." In Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland. Edited by Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, 65-87. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Jordan, David W. "Political Stability and the Emergence of a Native Elite in Maryland." In The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays in Anglo-American Society. Edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, 243-73. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.