The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Jackl, W. E. "Station Number Eleven of the Enoch Pratt Free Library." Journal of Library History 7 (1972): 141-156.
Notes: East Baltimore's Station Number Eleven, which began in two rooms in a settlement house was amazingly successful in servicing its Jewish immigrant population with very mere resources. This article includes some discussion in the early 20th century library controversy of whether or not libraries should collection non-English works. Also stressed is the role the public library played in the Americanization of the immigrant.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Kellman, Naomi. "From File Drawer to Heritage Center: A Brief History of the Jewish Historical Society." Generations (Fall 1986): 9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Key, Betty McKeever, comp. Oral History in Maryland: A Directory. Edited by Larry E. Sullivan. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981.
Notes: Although it is very outdated, this directory should serve be the starting point for anyone attempting to locate oral history collections relevant to Maryland. Collections surveyed were not only in institutional hands (schools, libraries, and historical agencies) but also belonged to governmental agencies and private individuals. Included are DC and PA collections of potential interest.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Maryland, Our Maryland: An Ethnic and Cultural Directory. Baltimore: Baltimore Council for International Visitors, 1975.
Nitzberg, Gertrude Singer. "The Music Library of the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, Inc." Generations 3 (December 1982): 37-38.
Notes: A discussion of the development of an oral history program to capture Yiddish songs. The Society was also actively collecting old Jewish 78 rpm records and sheet music.
Categories: Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Polites, Angeline, comp., and ed. Maryland 350th Anniversary Speakers Guide and Directory. Annapolis: Maryland Commission on Ethnic Affairs, 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Reichman, Felix. "German Printing in Maryland: A Check List, 1768-1950." Report of the Society for the History of Germans in Maryland 27 (1950): 9-70.
Categories: Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Saye, Hymen. The Papers of Harry Greenstein: Saga of a Humanitarian. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Scarpaci, Jean. The Ethnic Experience in Maryland: A Bibliography of Resources. Towson: Towson State University, [1978].
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Shopes, Linda. "The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project: Oral History and Community Involvement." Radical History Review 25 (October 1981): 27-44.
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
The Southern Maryland Collections. Section 1, June 1979 edition: The Book Collections. LaPlata, MD: Charles County Community College, 1979.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. "Matthias de Sousa: Colonial Maryland's Black, Jewish Assemblyman." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (December 1978): 397-98.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Politics and Law
Lee, J. B. "Lessons in Humility: The Revolutionary Transformation of the Governing Elite of Charles County, Maryland." In The Transforming Hand of Revolution. Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Categories: Politics and Law, Charles County
Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.
Notes: This intensive and insightful study of a single county offers insight into several large themes in Maryland history - "the American Revolution as a transforming, ongoing phenomenon, civilian's responses to the War for Independence, the tenor of the nation's formative years, and the nature of Chesapeake society." During this period Charles Country changed from prosperous economy, securely connected to the outside world through overseas trade, into a stagnant backwater, whose forward looking population searched for opportunity elsewhere. Unlike other areas of Maryland, where the Revolutionary years were tumultuous, there were few challenges to the status quo. Cut off from the empire, entrepreneurial whites left the county in search of wealth and opportunity, often as close as Washington, DC, and the population became overwhelmingly unfree.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Charles County
Rhodes, Irwin S. "Early Legal Records of Jews of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." American Jewish Archives 12 (1960): 96-108.
Categories: Ethnic History, Politics and Law
Rice, James D. "'This Province, so meanly and Thinly Inhabited': Labor, Race, and Penal Practices in Maryland, 1681-1837." Journal of the Early Republic, 19 (Spring 1999): 15-42.
Weaver, Glenn. "Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania Germans." William and Mary Quarterly 14 (1957): 536-559.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century
Atwood, Liz. "Jews in Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 19-25.
Beirne, D. Randall. "German Immigration to Nineteenth-Century Baltimore." Maryland Humanities (September/October 1994): 15-17.
Categories: Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Bonvillain, Dorothy Guy. Cultural Pluralism and the Americanization of Immigrants: The Role of Public Schools and Ethnic Communities, Baltimore, 1890-1920. Ph.D. diss., American University, 1999.
Categories: Education, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Cahn, Louis F. "Baltimore Jews and Baltimore Horses." Generations 3 (June 1982): 23-30.
Carey, George. "A Sampler of Baltimore's Folk Culture." Johns Hopkins Magazine 27 (January 1976): 8-12.
Notes: George Carey, former Maryland state folklorist, notes that folklore often has been understood as applying to rural and traditional ways of life, but he insists that the concept is equally relevant for the study of urban settings like Baltimore. The most obvious examples he finds in the city's ethnic neighborhoods, both European and African American, including Ukrainian-American Easter egg designs, window screens painted by Czech-Americans, and African-American A-rabing (street hawker) cries, songs, and storytelling.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman, eds. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Notes: Essays on aspects of the social history of Baltimore provide case studies of social issues and neighborhood dynamics. Paired chapters first consider the lives of ordinary B&O Railroad workers involved in the railroad strike of 1877, then examine the powerful family of B&O magnate John Work Garrett. Chapters on work consider the area's mill villages, the garment industry, and union activity. Studies of neighborhoods address the history of Fells Point in terms of race and ethnicity and racial change in west Baltimore.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Feest, Christian F. "Ethnohistory, Moral History, and Colonial Maryland." Amerikastudien 28 (No. 4 1983): 429-433.
Categories: Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Fein, Isaac. The Making of an American Jewish Community: The History of Baltimore Jewry from 1773 to 1920. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.