The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Personal and Organizational Papers Relating to Maryland: A Guide to Holdings of the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the Special Collections Division of the University of Maryland Libraries at College Park. [College Park: University of Maryland], 1978.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Price, Mary Jo. "Unique Research Collections: Frostburg State's Ort Library." Journal of the Alleghenies 34 (1998): 100-4.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Pyatt, Timothy, and Lisa Perry. Maps of Maryland: A Guide to the Map Collection of the Marylandia & Rare Books Department, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland College Park. College Park, MD: Maryland & Rare Books Dept., 1993.
Categories: Education, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Ray, Donald, ed. Western Maryland Materials in Allegany and Garrett County Libraries. Cumberland, MD: Allegany County Community College, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Requardt, Cynthia Horsburgh. "Women's Deeds in Women's Words: Manuscripts in the Maryland Historical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (June 1978): 186-204.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Schaaf, Elizabeth. Guide to the Archives of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, 1857-1977. Baltimore: Archives of the Peabody Institute, 1987.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Smith, Richard K., ed. The Hugh L. Dryden Papers 1898-1965: A Preliminary Catalogue of the Basic Collection. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1974.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Steele, Ann E. "A Short History of the BMI's Exhibits and Programs." Nuts and Bolts 9 (Special Anniversary Edition 1991): 4-5.
Notes: This administrative history includes a very useful list of "Highlights of the Museum's Exhibits and Programs" which provides an excellent history of the museum during its first ten years.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Trust Library Re-Debuts." Preservation News 27 (November 1987): 12, 16.
Notes: National Trust for Historic Preservation Library at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Wages, Jack D., and William L. Andrews. "Southern Literary Culture: 1969-1975." Mississippi Quarterly 32 (Winter 1978-79): 13-215.
Notes: Bibliography of theses and dissertations with numerous references to Maryland.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
McCain, R. Ray. "Reactions to the United States Supreme Court Segregation Decision of 1954." Georgia Historical Quarterly 52 (1968): 371-387.
Categories: African American, Education, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Rosen, Sanford Jay. "Judge Sobeloff's Public School Race Decisions." Maryland Law Review 34, no. 4 (1974): 498-531.
Categories: Education, Politics and Law
Rottier, Catherine M. "Ellen Spencer Mussey and the Washington College of Law." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 361-82.
Searle, Malcolm. "The Right to Privacy: A Case Study." Social Education 31 (1967): 497-508.
Categories: Education, Politics and Law
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
Click, Patricia Catherine. "Enlightened Entertainment: Educational Amusements in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Spring 1990): 1-14.
Notes: Click argues that during the nineteenth century popular amusements--such as exhibits, museums, and lectures--in cities like Baltimore shifted in their justification from emphasis upon education and uplift to entertainment for its own sake. She illustrates the change with examples, ranging from the famous mastodon skeleton featured in Peale's Museum when it was established in 1813 to the display of curiosities, freaks, and exotic cultural oddities that became more common in the popular entertainment later in the century.
Categories: Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Conway, M. Margaret, Jay A. Stevens, and Robert G. Smith. "The Relation Between Media Use and Children's Civic Awareness." Journalism Quarterly 52 (1975): 531-538.
Categories: Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
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
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Present at the 'Creation': The Chesapeake World that Greeted the Maryland Colonists." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 7-20.
Notes: Fausz examines relations between Europeans (especially the English of Maryland and Virginia) and Native Americans of the Chesapeake region in the decade immediately preceding the settlement of the Maryland colony at St. Mary's in 1634. He argues that the interaction between Englishmen and Native Americans provided the basis for tobacco cultivation and the beaver fur trade. Both paved the way for successful adaption of the early English settlers to new American conditions.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
"The Great Game." Johns Hopkins Magazine 7 (April 1956): 7-9, 20-21.
Notes: The article discusses the Native American origins of lacrosse in a game called "baggattaway," tracing its adaption in the nineteenth century as a popular sport among Canadians and its spread to the United States. First played in Baltimore in the 1870s, it became a club and intercollegiate sport in the area. In 1928 lacrosse arrived on the world scene as a sport at the Amsterdam Olympics.
Categories: Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Harte, Thomas J. "Social Origins of the Brandywine Population." Phylon 24 (1963): 369-378.
Notes: Harte seeks to establish the eighteenth-century origins of a distinctive mixed race "Brandywine" population in Charles County, though he fails to explain this social identity for the general reader. He points to Maryland laws against miscegenation and cross-racial sexual relationships as indirect evidence that both had occurred in the colony and cites Charles County records for violations of those laws. The article provides less direct support for his contention that Native American ancestry may also have been involved in the mixed race unions. Harte concludes that isolated family groupings in the eighteenth century served as the basis of the identifiable Brandywine population in the county in the nineteenth century.
Categories: African American, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
McGowan, Lynn. "A Survey of Irish Usage among Immigrants in the United States." In The Irish Language in the United States: A Historical, Sociolinguistic, and Applied Linguistic Study, edited by Thomas W. Ihde. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994, 67-76.
Notes: To evaluate the persistence of Irish language usage by Irish immigrants to the United States in the period following 1922, McGowan conducted a limited survey of respondents in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. In order to determine the impact of Irish language instruction fostered by the Free State of Ireland, she selected only those who had been educated in Irish primary schools after the implementation of the language policy. She found that for most immigrants to the United States, Irish had remained a "school language," not used a great deal in everyday life, though there were important degrees of persistence in reading, writing, and conversation.
Categories: Education, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Miller, Peggy J. Amy, Wendy, and Beth: Learning Language in South Baltimore. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.
Rozbicki, Michael J. "Transplanted Ethos--Indians and the Cultural Identity of English Colonists in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Amerikastudien 28 (No. 4, 1983): 405-428.
Categories: Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Hill, Forest G. Roads, Rails & Waterways; The Army Engineers and Early Transportation. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957.
Notes: The roles of the United States Military Academy at West Point, the nation's first school of engineering, and of the early military engineers trained there in the creation of our national transportation system; Maryland's railroads and canals figure heavily in the account.
Categories: Education, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century