The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Greaver, Earl R. "Foul Farm Fowl and Other Birds." History Trails 32 (Spring 1998): 9-11.
Categories: Agriculture, Baltimore County
Johnson, Robert C., ed. "Virginia in 1632." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957): 458-466.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
McGrain, John. An Agricultural History of Baltimore County, Maryland. Towson, MD: published by the author, 1990.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Baltimore County
Trimble, Logan C. "Middling Planters and the Strategy of Diversification in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1750-1776." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Summer 1990): 171-78.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Clague, Cristin D. "The Calverts: Migration in History." Calvert Historian 13 (Fall 1998): 19-24.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County
Cotter, Thomas F. "The Merryman Affair." History Trails 24 (Winter 1989-1990): 5-8.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Cross, Philip S. "A Life at Rayville - Part II." History Trails 14 (Winter 1980): 5-8.
Notes: Reminiscences of Baltimore County from the 1840s to the 1920s.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Foster, James W., and Susan R. Falk. George Calvert: The Early Years. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983.
Frank, Beryl. "Samuel Hartley of Quaker Hill." History Trails 14 (Spring 1980): 9-10.
Greaver, Earl R. "Gourmets All." History Trails 31 (Winter 1996-Spring 1997): 5-7.
Greaver, Earl R. "Idaho Reds." History Trails 30 (Spring 1996): 9-11.
Guroff, Margaret. "Glenn L. Martin." Baltimore 92 (July 1999): 30-31.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Hoffman, Ronald. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500 - 1782. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press/Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, 2000.
Notes: Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Maryland's Charles Carroll of Carrollton was conspicuously different from most of his colleagues. Fabulously wealthy and Roman Catholic, Carroll was very aware of his family's origins as traditional leaders in their former Irish homeland. Ronald Hoffman skillfully recounts the story of this family's successful struggle to maintain its status in the face of official religious intolerance. In surveying the path that led from Ely O'Carroll in Ireland to the shores of the Chesapeake, Hoffman helps explain why a very conservative family would embrace the cause of revolution.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Kester, John G. "Charles Polke: Indian Trader of the Potomac." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Winter 1995): 446-65.
Linton, Terry L. "The Forgotten Millwright, Isiah Linton 1739-1775." History Trails 23 (Autumn, 1988-Winter, 1988/1989): 1-7.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Martin, Percy E. "Baltimorean in Big Trouble: Samuel Arnold, A Lincoln Conspirator, Part I." History Trails 25 (Autumn 1990): 1-4.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Martin, Percy E. "Baltimorean in Big Trouble: Samuel Arnold, a Lincoln Conspirator." History Trails 25 (Winter 1990-1991): 5-8; (Spring 1991): 9-12.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Mascari, Ruth. "A Parkton Girlhood." History Trails 17 (Spring 1983): 9- 10.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Parry, Ann Hollingsworth. "Domestic Life on a Farm near Glen Falls." History Trails 31 (Winter 1996-Spring 1997): 8.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Sparrow, Margaret W. "The Sparrows of Sparrow's Point." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Winter 1990): 395-403.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Whitman, Suzanne Voss White. The Knoll in Green Spring Valley. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985.
Witcover, Jules. White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew. New York: Random House, 1972.
Notes: Spiro Agnew rose from Baltimore County Executive to Governor of Maryland to Vice President under Richard Nixon. Although he did not complete his term as Governor, Agnew was instrumental in reforming and reorganizing the state government. He got the attention of the national Republican Party for his firm response to the racial and political unrest of the 1960s. As Vice President, Agnew gained acclaim and notoriety for speeches that attacked the administration's opponents. Ultimately, a criminal indictment for activities that occurred in his Baltimore County days led to his resignation as Vice President.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Zseleczky, James Waters. "Anne Mynne of Hertingfordbury, Wife of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore (1579-1622)." Chronicles of St. Mary's 22 (September 1974): 397-99.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Abingbade, Harrison Ola. "The Settler-African Conflicts: The Case of the Maryland Colonists and the Grebo 1840-1900." Journal of Negro History 66 (Summer 1981): 93-109.
Categories: African American, Maritime, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Alpert, Jonathan L. "The Origin of Slavery in the United States: The Maryland Precedent." American Journal of Legal History 14 (1970): 189-222.
Notes: Maryland was the "first province in English North America to recognize slavery as a matter of law" (189). Therefore, the study of Maryland is useful for historians studying how American slavery was a product of the law. Early legislation recognized the existence of slavery, for while indentured servitude and slavery co-existed, and the terms were used interchangeably, the law still distinguished between the two. "All slaves were servants but not all servants were slaves" (193). However, it wasn't until 1664 when a statue was created which established slavery as hereditary. This statute was the first law in English North American to thus establish this type of slavery, legalizing what had been de facto since 1639. The author concludes that laws reflect the attitudes of a society and the manner in which societal problems are resolved. In the case of Maryland, servant problems could be avoided by replacing indentured servitude with perpetual slavery.
Categories: African American, Native American, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century