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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman. The Baltimore Book; New Views of Local History Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Notes: An alternative look at Baltimore's history from a leftist, social activist perspective, the book includes historic photographs of the city's buildings and areas.

Getty, Joe. Uniontown, Maryland: A Walking Tour. Manchester, MD: Noodle-Doosey Press, 1983.

Giza, Joanne, and Catherine F.Black. Great Baltimore Houses: An Architectural and Social History. Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, 1982.

Hayward, Mary Ellen. "Rowhouse: A Baltimore Style of Living." Three Centuries of Maryland Architechture, 65-79. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1982.

Hollifield, William. "Mount Airy." History Trails 24 (Spring 1990): 9-12.

Hooper, Carol E., and William Hollifield. "Aigburth Vale." History Trails 32-33 (Summer-Autumn 1998): 13-16, 1-4.

Hughes, Elizabeth. Historic St. Michaels: An Architectural History. St. Michaels, MD: Historic St. Michaels Bay Hundred, Inc., 1995.

Hunter, Wilbur H., Jr. "Baltimore in the Revolutionary Generation." In Boles, John B., ed., Maryland Heritage; Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Bicentennial, 183-233. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976.

Jakmauh, Edward, and Robert Wales. Waterfront Study, Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore: n. p., 1975.
Notes: A planners' survey evidently prepared for the American Bicentennial, the booklet provides a well-illustrated history of one of Baltimore's most important areas and its people, threatened at the time by an expressway. The threat of the highway has since been removed; unfortunately much of Fells Point's industrial architecture, unique in the city, has disappeared as well.

Jones, Carleton. "Union Mills Homestead: Where Reveries Flow Naturally." Maryland 13 (Autumn 1980): 31-34.

Jones, Carleton. "Mencken's Union Square: Then and Now." Menckeniana 61 (Spring 1977): 1-3.

Kearns, Richard. "The Annapolis Cityscape." Antiques 111 (January 1977): 194-200.

Kearns, Richard. "Urban Design [of Annapolis]." Antiques 111 (January 1977): 158-59.

Kelly, J. Reaney. "'Tulip Hill,' its History and its People." Maryland Historical Magazine 60 (1965): 349-403.

Kelly, Jacques. Bygone Baltimore. Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1982.
Notes: The real Baltimore in historic photographs selected and annotated by one of the city's most diligent appreciators. The photographs of buildings are excellent and include many interiors.

Larew, Marilynn M. Bel Air: An Architectural and Cultural History, 1782-1945. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1995.

Larew, Marilynn M. Bel Air: The Town Through Its Buildings. Edited by Christopher Weeks. Edgewood, MD: Town of Bel Air and the Maryland Historical Trust, 1981.

Miller, Mark B. Baltimore Transitions; Views of an American City in Flux. Baltimore: Pridemark, 1998.
Notes: Through historic and contemporary views of the same location, the author illustrates the dramatic effects of the automobile, the high-rise building, and other aspects of modern urban life on the Baltimore of a century ago.

Olson, Sherry. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Notes: Geographer Olson's book, by far the most thorough illustrated history of Baltimore, is strong on geographic and commercial development, and gives less attention to the arts, including architecture. However it does feature many historic photographs of buildings and contemporary news accounts of their construction.

Paraschos, Janet Nyberg. "Baltimore." American Preservation 3 (July-August 1980): 23-38.

Pearl, Susan C. Fairmount Heights, Maryland: a History, from its Beginnings (1900) to Incorporation (1935). Upper Marlboro, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1991.

Scarff, John H. Hampton, Baltimore County, Maryland. Baltimore: Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities, 1954.

Schalck, Harry G. "Planning Roland Park, 1891-1910." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 419-428.

Schock, Mildred C. Of History and Houses: A Kent Island Heritage. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1982.

"Society Marks Historical Sites." Glades Star 7 (March 1994): 341.

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