The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Watkins, McClarin. "I Remember Quarrying Slate at Delta-Cardiff." Harford Historical Bulletin 39 (Winter 1989): 10-17.
Austin, Gwendolyn Hackley. "In Search of the Little Black Guinea Man; A Case Study in Utilizing Harford County and other Maryland Resources to Track Black Family History." Harford Historical Bulletin 36 (Spring 1988): 29-41.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Harford County
Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland during the Nineteenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Notes: The author explores how free populations in Maryland - both black and white - challenged the notion of a slave society. The free black population, very much interconnected with the slave population in terms of kinship ties, also provided a threat to the underpinnings of the system. Once freedom arrived, social relationships also had to be redefined. The author writes that "free blacks did not occupy a unique or legitimate place within Maryland society, but instead formed an anomalous adjunct to the slave population" (3). By 1840, free blacks in Maryland composed 41% of the total black population of the state, or the largest free black population of any state in the nation.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware: From the Colonial Period to 1810. Baltimore: Clearfield, 2000.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Johansen, Mary Carroll. "'Intelligence, Though Overlooked:' Education for Black Women in the Upper South, 1800-1840." Maryland Historical Magazine 93 (Winter 1998): 443-65.
Notes: Black and white educators established forty-six schools for free black children in the early nineteenth century. These educators supported education for black women believing that women transmitted knowledge and morals, thus shaping a generation of virtuous citizens. In addition, educators looked to education as a means by which to form self-sufficient and industrious free black communities.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Nelson, Jack E. "Black Pearl of the Chesapeake." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (November 1993): 24-27.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
Stansbury, Russell. "Biographical Sketch [of] Clayton Crewell Stansbury." Harford Historical Bulletin 15 (Winter 1983): 7-9.
Notes: Havre de Grace community leader, ca. 1920-1950.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Harford County
Sutherland, Hunter. "Slavery in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 35 (Winter 1988): 19-27.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Tate, Thad W. "The Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake and Its Modern Historians." In The Chesapeake in the Seventeeth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society. Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman eds., 3-50. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Categories: General, African American, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Vaugh, Clarence. "Some Venerable Leaders." Harford Historical Bulletin 20 (Spring 1984): 18-23.
Notes: Biographical sketches of black leaders in Harford County history.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Harford County
Yentsch, Anne. "Hot, Nourishing, and Culturally Potent: The Transfer of West African Cooking Traditions to the Chesapeake." Sage 9 (Summer 1995): 15-29.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Andrews, Mabel E. "What Happened to Moore's Mill?" Harford Historical Bulletin 33 (Summer 1987): 63-64.
Andrews, Mabel E. "Vanishing Spring Houses." Harford Historical Bulletin (Fall 1984): 49-53.
Notes: Structures built over water springs.
"'Belle Farm' Historic Harford County Mansion." Peninsula Pacemaker 20 (September 1992): 22-23.
Brinkley, M. Kent. "Fences in the Colonial Chesapeake: A Look Back at the Historic Types and Uses of Mid-Atlantic Fencing." Landscape Architecture 89 (May 1999): 75, 96, 98-99.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Chesapeake Region
Forwood, William Stump. "The Homes on Deer Creek." Harford Historical Bulletin 41 (Summer 1989): 50-74.
Forwood, William Stump. "The Homes on Deer Creek." Harford Historical Bulletin 45 (Summer 1990): 44-73.
Forwood, William Stump. "Homes on Deer Creek." Harford Historical Bulletin 51 (Winter 1992): 2-31.
Forwood, William Stump. "Homes on Deer Creek." Harford Historical Bulletin 32 (Spring 1987): 23-40.
[Hughes, Joseph?]. "An Old Landmark Destroyed--Burning of Rock Hall." Harford Historical Bulletin 31 (Winter 1987): 7.
Kavanagh, Kathryn Hopkins. "The House that Booth Built, A Revisit: Harford County's Tudor Hall." Harford Historical Bulletin 71 (Winter 1997): 3-59.
Larew, Marilynn M. Bel Air: An Architectural and Cultural History, 1782-1945. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1995.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Harford County
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Harford County
"Rock Run Mill at Havre de Grace, MD, to undergo restoration." Old Mill News 23 (Summer 1995): 11.
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Notes: Gardens are the result of a particular culture and are an outward sign of a special grace, according to Maryland architecture writer H. Chandlee Forman. Early gardens reflected the tastes and enthusiasms of their owners as much as did their mansions. The author's engaging account of the significance of the domestic landscape to its proprietors and their visitors includes color illustrations of several of the estates.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Environment, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region