The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Cronin, William B. "Barren Island." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 18 (May 1988): 66-68.
Categories: County and Local History, Dorchester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Cronin, William B. "Sharps Island." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 18 (January 1989): 36-38.
Categories: County and Local History, Dorchester County, Chesapeake Region
Cross, E. May. "The Patent Medicine Show and Other Events at Rayville." History Trails 33 (Spring 1999): 9-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Medicine, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Dundalk, Then & Now 1894-1980. Dundalk, MD: Dundalk-Patapsco Neck Historical Society, 1980.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Earle, Swepson. The Chesapeake Bay Country. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Company, 1923.
Notes: Divided into three regions -- southeastern Maryland, Upper Bay, and the Eastern Shore, this work includes a history for each, written by five noted authors, followed by a description of the counties in each, along with places of interest and the people of these places. The histories of the areas places special emphasis on major houses and genealogy of the owners. It is nicely illustrated with contemporary photographs, which nearly 80 years later serve as historic images. There are four pages of interesting photos of African Americans.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Fee, Elizabeth, et. al. "Baltimore by Bus: Steering a New Course through the City's History." Radical History Review 28-30 (1984): 206-216.
Notes: A discussion of the development of the alternative, left oriented "People's Bus Tour" of Baltimore. The tour's intention was to demonstrate the diversity of Baltimore and to show the conflicts and processes that affected the City's working class. Class relations are interpreted throughout Baltimore's history by visiting significant and visually interesting places.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman, eds. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1991.
Notes: Eleven essays documenting the working class history of Baltimore, stretching across many of Baltimore's neighborhoods -- from Federal Hill to Hampden, Edmondson Village to Dundalk. This work grew out of a "People's History Tour of Baltimore." Each chapter includes a map of relevant sites. There are fifteen interviews. It is well illustrated and includes an excellent bibliography.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Forbes, Marie. Speaking of Our Past. A Narrative History of Owings Mills, Maryland, 1640-1988. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988.
Frank, Beryl. A Pictorial History of Pikesville, Maryland. Towson, MD: Baltimore County Public Library, 1982.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Frank, Beryl. "Lexington on the Hookstown Road." History Trails 17 (Autumn 1982): 1-3.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Frank, Beryl. "Dr. James Smith-Land Owner in Pikesville." History Trails 15 (Spring 1981): 9-10.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Frank, Beryl. Way Back When in Sudbrook Park. Baltimore: Sudbrook Park, Inc., 1997.
Notes: The major focus of this work are the one to two pages, illustrated, histories of 17 selected houses. Although architecture is mentioned, the major focus is on the lives of the people who occupied the houses. Their is a description of community life by the activities of the months. Over 60 people were interviewed for this work.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Greaver, Earl R. "Recollections of Riderwood and Bare Hills." History Trails 27 (Autumn 1992): 1-4; Part 2, 27 (Winter 1992-1993): 5-8; Part 3, 27 (Spring 1993): 9-12.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Grimes, Michael A. The Development of Baltimore's Northwest Corridor, 1919-1930. Columbus, OH: Society for American City and Regional Planning History, 1989.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Grimes, Michael A. "Sources for Documenting Baltimore's Suburban Landscape." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 163-68.
Notes: Grimes discusses a variety of sources useful for studying Baltimore's expansion -- maps, deeds, tax assessments, newspapers, building permits, and photographs. He describes where to find them and how to use them.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Hahn, H. George, and Carl Behm, III. Towson: A Pictorial History of A Maryland Town. Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1977.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County
Haile, Amelia R. Kolk. A History of Reckford, Maryland. N.p., 1939.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Baltimore County
Hardie, Dee. Hollyhock, Lambs and Other Passions: A Memoir of Thornhill Farms. New York: Atheneum, 1985.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Harp, David W., and Tom Horton. Water's Way: Life Along the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Notes: A photo essay on the environmental plight of the Eastern Shore, special attention is paid to the area's natural history and the life of the watermen.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Heritage Committee of the Greater Timonium American Bicentennial Committee, Inc. The Limestone Valley. Timonium, MD: Greater Timonium American Bicentennial Committee, Inc., 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore County
Historic Long Green Valley, Baltimore County, Maryland: Architecture - History. Cockeysville, MD: Baltimore County Historical Society, 1981; 3rd printing, 1986.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Baltimore County
Hollifield, William. Difficulties Made Easy: History of the Turnpikes of Baltimore City and County. Baltimore: Baltimore County Historical Society, 1978.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Hollifield, William. "Names of Baltimore County Estates." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 22 (Summer 1981): 187-93.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Baltimore County
Hollifield, William. "Caroline Felix - Part II; The Later Chapmans." History Trails 16 (Spring 1982): 9-12; 17 (Autumn 1982): 4.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Hollifield, William. "Caroline Felix-Part I." History Trails 16 (Winter 1981/82): 5-8.
Notes: Letters of Baltimore County farmer William Chapman, 1831.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County