The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Jordan, David W. "'God's Candle' Within Government: Quakers and Politics in Early Maryland." William and Mary Quarterly 3d series, 39 (October 1982): 628-54.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century
Mason, Keith. "Localism, Evangelicalism, and Loyalism: The Sources of Oppression in the Revolutionary Chesapeake." Journal of Southern History 56 (February 1990): 23-54.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Papenfuse, Edward C. An Act Concerning Religion, April 21, 1649: An Interpretation and Tribute to the Citizen Legislators of Maryland. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1999.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century
Todd, Edward N., ed. "The 'Recollections' of Hugh Davey Evans." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 34 (1965): 297-332.
Vivian, Jean H. "The Poll Tax Controversy in Maryland, 1770-76: A Case of Taxation with Representation." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Summer 1976): 151-76.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century
Yackel, Peter G. "Benefit of Clergy in Colonial Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 383-97.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Risjord, Norman K. Chesapeake Politics 1781-1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Notes: This is a richly detailed study of the development of political parties in the three states - Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina - which comprise the Chesapeake region. Using cluster-bloc analysis where possible, especially for Maryland, and more traditional sources where the roll-calls are too scarce, this study focuses on the growth of partisanship in the state legislatures. Sharing the post-war problems of debt, depression, social unrest, as well as reacting to national issues, such as the structure of the central government, western lands, the location of the capital, neutrality, the Jay Treaty, the Quasi-War with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts, as well as other issues, each state responded with subtle differences. Overall, however, these experiences strengthened party identification and organization, so that by the election of 1800 a major party competition existed.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Atwood, Liz. "Jews in Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 19-25.
Bauernschub, John P. Columbianism in Maryland, 1897-1965. Baltimore: Maryland State Council, Knights of Columbus, 1965.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Bilhartz, Terry. Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening: Church and Society in Early National Baltimore. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univerity Press, 1986.
Brooks, Richard. "Social Planning in Columbia." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 37 (1971): 373-378.
Notes: An evaluation of the planned community of Columbia at an early point in its development, the article contends that the transition from vision to implementation involves a series of social dilemmas. These included the shift from company town to "thriving democratic polity," the potential conflict between the vision of a new form of urban community versus the prevailing attraction of the suburban ideal, and questions about the appropriate balance between residential and commercial functions in a presumably "post-industrial" society. Brooks wonders whether the failure by the planner and many early residents to face up to the challenges of these dilemmas may represent a "heroic failure" for Columbia.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Chappell, Helen. The Chesapeake Book of the Dead: Tombstones, Epitaphs, Histories, Reflections, and Oddments of the Region. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Davis, Richard Beale. Intellectual Life in the Colonial South 1585-1763, 3 vols. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978.
Notes: Davis's three-volume work surveys the "nature and development of the southern mind" during the colonial period and seeks to counter the standard interpretation of the predominant role of colonial New England in shaping the intellectual life of what would become the new nation. Topics include education, libraries and printing, religious writings, fine arts, literature, and public oratory. The volumes draw extensively on manuscript collections, some only recently discovered, in Britain and the United States, including important Maryland archives; chapters are followed by extensive bibliographies and notes.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Davis, Richard Beale. "Southern Writing of the Revolutionary Period c. 1760-1790." Early American Literature 12 (Fall 1977): 107-20.
Notes: Davis contends that a great body of literature for the late eighteenth century American South has only just begun to be recognized and made available. The author provides a brief discussion of representative works in the various genres considered-letters, pamphlets, theological writings, diaries, poems, etc.-along with a bibliography of holdings in the Maryland Historical Society and other Southeastern state repositories. Davis believes that this literary collection-much of which was unpublished and relatively unknown-represents an important corrective to the impression that New England far outdistanced the South in written expression.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Guyther, Joseph Roy. "Riddle of the Amish Culture." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Fall 1997): 242-46.
Jervey, Edward D. "Henry L. Mencken and American Methodism." Journal of Popular Culture 12 (Summer 1978): 75-87.
Notes: Jervey chronicles H. L. Mencken's well-known antagonism toward organized religion, especially harsh in his writing of the 1920s. The article focuses especially upon Mencken's tendency to single out the Methodists, whom he viewed as representing the dominant social and cultural values of mainstream and conservative Protestantism. He argues that Protestant support for Prohibition and opposition to new, scientific knowledge, as evidenced by the conflict over the theory of evolution, served as touchstones for Mencken's satire and scorn.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
McIntosh, J. Rieman. A History of the Elkridge Fox Hunting Club, The Elkridge Hounds, the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club 1878-1978. Monkton, MD: Published by the author, 1978.
Neville, John Davenport. "Hugh Jones and His Universal Georgian Calendar." Virginia Cavalcade 26 (Winter 1977): 134-43.
Notes: Maryland Anglican Minister.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Rosenwaike, Ira. "Characteristics of Baltimore's Jewish Population in a Nineteenth-Century Census." American Jewish History 82 (1994): 123-39.
Notes: Rosenwaike uses a unique census from the Baltimore City Archives to analyze the characteristics of Baltimore's Jewish population in 1868. The census, compiled by Baltimore police to determine ward size (and only partially completed), included religious identification, a category not listed in the federal manuscript census. Making use of a limited number of studies of Jewish population in other cities, most smaller, the author finds roughly similar patterns, though a slightly higher percentage who were native born and a very high percentage who listed Germany as their place of origin. Like their co-religionists elsewhere at the time, Baltimore Jews were relatively young, had sizable families, and were most likely to be headed by males in proprietary and managerial occupations.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
"St. Martin's Camp." Isle of Kent (Spring 1993): 1-2.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore City, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Terrar, Edward F. Social, Economic, and Religious Beliefs among Maryland Catholic Laboring People during the Period of the English Civil War, 1639-1660. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Vicchio, Stephen J. "Baltimore's Burial Practices, Mortuary Art, and Notions of Grief and Bereavement, 1780-1900." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Summer 1986): 134-148.
Notes: Vicchio examines the history of the Westminster Burial Ground, established in Baltimore in 1787 by the First Presbyterian Church, as an example of funeral practices among the city's Protestants in the period 1780-1900. He distinguishes three periods: 1780-1810, characterized by simple stone markers and minimal ritual; 1810-1840, marked by greater class distinction, evident, for instance, in architectural embellishments, the early stages of a burial industry, and rituals emphasizing family loss; and 1840-1900, when the romantic view of death gave rise to "rural cemeteries," like Green Mount, the burial industry became highly established (adding flowers, embalming, and elaborate caskets), and sentimentalization of death prevailed.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Zmora, Nurith. "A Rediscovery of the Asylum: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Through the Lives of Its First Fifty Orphans." American Jewish History 72 (March 1988): 452-75.
Notes: Examining the early history of the Baltimore Hebrew Orphan Asylum, established in 1873 in west Baltimore, Zmora provides evidence to refute the interpretation that such institutions were characterized by detention and represented the breakdown of family ties. Her study draws upon a variety of records to provide a profile of the orphanage's early inmates and the families from which they came. Zmora contends that the profile indicates the special vulnerability of young widows and the difficulty of placing orphaned siblings in the same home, but argues for the relative success of the institution in reuniting children with members of their families.
Categories: Ethnic History, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
"Thomas Viaduct Monument a Disgrace." The Sentinel 18 (Spring 1996): 28.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Howard County
Travers, Edwin Xavier. "Brief History of Howard County Post Offices." Howard County Historical Society Newsletter 32 (June 1989): 4.