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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "The Recollections of James W. Shipley: Growing Up on the I. L. Shipley Brothers Farm-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 3, 13-16; Part II, 26 (July 1995): 5, 10-13.

De Pasquale, Sue. "Merchant with a Plan and a Vision." Johns Hopkins Magazine 41 (June 1989): 36-37.
Notes: Johns Hopkins.

Fletcher, Charlotte. "John McDowell, Federalist: President of St. John's College." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 242-51.

Futrell, Roger H. "Zachariah Riney: Lincoln's First Schoolmaster." Lincoln Herald 74 (1972): 136-142.

Grauer, Nell. "Milton Stover Eisenhower, 1899-1985." Johns Hopkins Magazine 36 (June 1985): 48-53.

Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Jacob, Kathryn A. "Mr. Johns Hopkins." Johns Hopkins Magazine 25 (January 1974): 13-17.

Johnston, Sona K. "Friendship and Patronage: A Nineteenth-Century Tradition." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 10-12.

Kellman, Naomi. "Dr. Samson Benderly." Generations 4 (December 1983): 25-31.

LeoGrande, William M. "'No Gain': Portrait of a Family Farm." Montgomery County Story 42 (May 1999): 77-88.

McClain, William H. "William Kurrelmeyer: German-American 1874-1957." Report of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland 37 (1978): 8-18.
Notes: Biographical sketch of German professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Middleton, Arthur Pierce. "William Smith: Godfather and First President of St. John's College." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 235-41.

Omerod, Dana Evans. Robert E. Lee: President of Washington College, 1865-1870. Ph.D. diss., Kent State University, 1993.

Parker, Franklin. George Peabody: A Biography. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971; revised edition, 1995.

Pons, Josh. Country Life Diary: Three Years in the Life of a Horse Farm. Second edition, Lexington, KY: The Blood-Horse, Inc., 1999.

Rothberg, Morey. "Historic Beginnings." Johns Hopkins Magazine 48 (June 1996): 53-60.

Schaaf, Elizabeth. "George Peabody: His Life and Legacy, 1795-1869." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Fall 1995): 268-85.
Notes: George Peabody's legacy to Baltimore transcends the music conservatory and magnificent library that bear his name. His gifts influenced other wealthy friends whose philanthropy help establish some of the great educational and cultural institutions that grace the city: the Johns Hopkins University, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Walters Art Gallery. This article surveys the life of a man admired and respected on both sides of the Atlantic.

Shaw, Richard. John Dubois, Founding Father: The Life and Times of the Founder of Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg. Emmitsburg, MD: Mount St. Mary's College, 1983.

Simpson, William E. "Alexius Lancaster, 1794-1856: Farm Life in Southern Maryland Circa 1818-1856, Preamble." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Spring 1995): 120.

Sines, Taylor. "Walt Whitehair-Lifelong Cattle Dealer." Glades Star 9 (June 1999): 70-72.

Solomon, Eric. "Earl Wasserman, Johns Hopkins and Me." Johns Hopkins Magazine 35 (April 1984): 10-16.

Turner, Charles W., ed. "A Virginia Small Farmer's Life after the Civil War." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 63 (1955): 286-305.

Turner, Thomas Bourne. Part of Medicine, Part of Me: Musings of a Johns Hopkins Dean. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1981.

Williams, Juan. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. New York: Times Books, 1998.
Notes: Thurgood Marshall was the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. His rise from a modest upbringing in Baltimore is chronicled in this biography by journalist Juan Williams. Marshall's 1954 victory as the lead attorney in <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> established his standing as a champion in the Civil Rights movement. Early in his career as a lawyer for the NAACP, Marshall argued the case that led to the desegregation of the University of Maryland.

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