The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Marks, Bayly Ellen, and Mark Norton Schatz, eds. Between North and South, A Maryland Journalist Views the Civil War: The Narrative of William Wilkins Glenn, 1861-1869. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Maturi, Richard J. Francis X. Bushman: A Biography and Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998.
Meyer, Sam. "Religion, Patriotism, and Poetry in the Life of Francis Scott Key." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 267-74.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Nineteenth Century, War of 1812
Micklus, Robert. The Comic Genius of Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century
Otter, William. History of My Own Times or, the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sen. Comprising a Series of Events, and Musical Incidents Altogether Original. Emmitsburg, MD: n.p., 1835; reprint. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Notes: William Otter (1787-1856) has left an entertaining autobiography of his life as a plasterer and practical jokester. Originally published in Emmitsburg in 1835, Otter's <em>History</em> offers an unusual glimpse into social history from an artisan's perspective. Whether Otter's humorous adventures and anecdotes are all true is debatable. His story does, however, suggest a continuation of the irreverent Maryland personality seen in the works of Ebenezer Cooke, Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Meshack Browning.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Parker, Michael P. "Alphabetical (Dis-)Order: The Annapolis Satires of William Oliver Stevens." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Spring 1990): 15-43.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Price, Walter W. "The Bashford Amphitheater's Name." Glades Star 6 (June 1990): 412-14.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Reese, Timothy J. "One Man's Battlefield: George Alfred Townsend and the War Correspondents Memorial Arch." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Fall 1997): 356-85.
Notes: Visitors to the Gathland State Park on South Mountain will find the only monument dedicated to Civil War newsmen. This monument was the brainchild of George Alfred Townsend, a Maryland journalist and author whose nickname was "Gath." This account of his campaign to honor his fellow war correspondents includes an overview of his life and career.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Ridout, Orlando, IV. "My Grandfather, The Bentztown Bard." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (July 1991): 3-4, 9-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth, ed. Mencken and Sara, A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H. L. Mencken and Sara Haardt. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Robert J. Brugger." Maryland Humanities (Spring/Summer 1995): 36-37.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Robert I. Cottom, Jr." Maryland Humanities (November/December 1994): 28-29.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Schaaf, Elizabeth. "George Peabody: His Life and Legacy, 1795-1869." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Fall 1995): 268-85.
Notes: George Peabody's legacy to Baltimore transcends the music conservatory and magnificent library that bear his name. His gifts influenced other wealthy friends whose philanthropy help establish some of the great educational and cultural institutions that grace the city: the Johns Hopkins University, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Walters Art Gallery. This article surveys the life of a man admired and respected on both sides of the Atlantic.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Shapiro, Karl Jay. Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Vojtech, Pat. "Prophet and Pariah." Annapolis 8 (January 1994): 24-29.
Notes: Tom Horton.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Wentworth, Jean. "Not Without Honor: William Lloyd Garrison." Maryland Historical Magazine 62 (1967): 318-336.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Whitehill, Joseph. "The Convict and the Burgher: a Case Study of Communication Crime." American Scholar 38 (1969): 441-451.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
Wineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Yardley, Jonathan. States of Mind: A Personal Journey Through the Mid-Atlantic. New York: Villard, 1993.
Notes: A combination travelogue and autobiography, the award-winning <em>Washington Post</em> book critic, Jonathan Yardley, surveys the scene in and around Maryland. His distinctive style makes for entertaining reading as he looks for the characteristic and unusual in the region. Yardley's book is an ideal companion guide for visitors seeking a more personal perspective on the people and places of the mid-Atlantic.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Anderson, Douglas. "The Textual Reproductions of Frederick Douglass." Clio 27 (Fall 1998): 57-87.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing
Anderson-Free, Corine F. The Baltimore Colored Orchestra and the City Colored Chorus. Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama, 1994.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Music and Theater
Ballard, Barbara Jean. Nineteenth-Century Theories of Race, the Concept of Correspondences, and the Images of Blacks in the Anti-slavery Writings of Douglass, Stow, and Browne. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1992.
Categories: African American, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Basalla, Susan Elizabeth. Family Resemblances: Zora Neale Hurston's Anthropological Heritage. Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1997.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women
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