The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Davidson, Thomas E. "Free Blacks in Old Somerset County, 1745-1755." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 151-156.
Notes: County court records of Somerset County, Maryland during the eighteenth century are particularly complete, allowing for detailed studies of the county's population during that period. The author contributes to the scholarship which, up until 1985, focused primarily on the origins of black culture on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the seventeenth century. The author also adds to the growing scholarship on free blacks in this region, which tended to also focus on the seventeenth century. In addition to examining court records to determine the numbers of free Negroes and mulattoes, the author also attempts to determine how members of these populations obtained their free status, that is, through manumission or the as the result of being children of free mothers (free-born).
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Davidson, Thomas E. "Jacob Armstrong: Pioneer Black Capitalist on Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 4 (1986): 4-6.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Floyd, Bianca. Records and Recollections: Early Black History in Prince George's County. Bladensburg, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1989.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Klein, Mary O. "'We Shall Be Accountable to God:' Some Inquiries into the Position of Blacks in Somerset Parish, Maryland, 1692-1865." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Winter 1992): 399-406.
Notes: The author examines the conversion of free blacks and slaves in Somerset Parish. While a 1664 Maryland law stated that baptism had no effect on the status of a slave, the Anglican church worked towards conversion of the enslaved. However, Christian education and baptism varied depending on individual slaveowners. In some cases, the enslaved themselves refused to be baptized. Evidence of African religious practices remained alongside the practice of Christianity.
Categories: African American, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Kohn, Howard. We Had A Dream: A Tale of the Struggles for Integration in America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Maryland-National Capital Park, and Planning Commission. The Social and Economic Status of the Black Population in Prince George's County, 1970-1980. Hyattsville, MD: The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1985.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
"'Pioneers' Promote Progress for Blacks." Prince George's County Today (July-August 1990): 7.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
"Selected Readings on Afro-Americans and Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 5 (Fall/Winter 1985): 6-7.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Thornton, Alvin. Like a Phoenix I'll Rise: An Illustrated History of African Americans in Prince George's County, Maryland, 1696-1996. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company, 1997.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Virta, Alan. "The Story of Ayuba Suleiman Ibrahima." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 12 (January 1984): 3-6.
Notes: African chieftain sold as a slave.
Wennersten, John R. "A Cycle of Race Relations on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Somerset County, 1850-1917." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 377-382.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R., and Ruth Ellen Wennersten. "Separate and Unequal: The Evolution of a Black Land Grant College in Maryland, 1890-1930." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Spring 1977): 110-17.
Notes: The authors examine how Princess Anne Academy on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland developed after 1890 as a state and federally supported land grant school. Like other land grant schools, Princess Anne Academy was neglected by state and federal agencies. This academy was an example of separate education provided for blacks which demonstrated how land grant schools were indeed separate ad unequal.
Categories: African American, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wilson, Emily Wanda. The Public Education of Negroes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1948.
Categories: African American, Education, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Berger, Howard S. Riverdale Historic Survey. Upper Marlboro, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1991.
Berger, Howard S. Takoma Park Historic Survey. Upper Marlboro, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1991.
Berke, Arnold. "A Prince of a County." Preservation News 27 (September 1987): 5.
Notes: Preservation efforts in Prince George's County.
Boucher, Jack E. Landmarks of Prince George's County. Upper Marlboro, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission/National Park Service, 1993.
"Bowie Railroad Buildings Listed in the National Register of Historic Places." Friends of Preservation Newsletter 16 (Winter 1998-99): 1, 2.
"Brookeville: Jewel of a Village Keeps Historic Moment Living." The Preservationist 3 (May/June 1988): 4-5.
Brown, Marsha L. "Abraham Hall: A New Beginning." Passport to the Past 2 (January/February 1991): 1, 5-6.
Graham, Donald. "Montpelier Mansion--Its Second Restoration." Passport to the Past 1 (November/December 1990): 1, 4, 8.
Greider, Linda. "Victorian Comfort in Suburban Washington." Historic Preservation 37 (December 1985): 20-22.
Notes: Hyattsville.
"Historic Hitching Post Hill." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 16 (September 1988): 27-29.
"House and Garden Pilgrimage." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 23 (December 1995): 3-6.
Illustrated Inventory of Historic Sites, Prince George's County, Maryland. Upper Marlboro, MD: Prince George's County Planning Department, 1990.