The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Crowl, Philip A. "Maryland during and after the Revolution: A Political and Economic Study." Johns Hopkins University Studies 61 (1943).
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Gienapp, William E. "Abraham Lincoln and the Border States." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 13 (1992): 13-46.
Notes: An analysis of Lincoln's policies in the border states, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, designed to prevent secession. After 1861, when each border state had pledged Union allegiance, Gienapp explores Lincoln's successes and failures in preserving or establishing loyal governments in each border state, fostering loyalty among its citizens, minimizing military occupation of these states, and ending slavery by voluntary state action.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Notes: A comprehensive examination of the political background, military operations, and diplomatic closure of "Mr. Madison's War." It may have been forgotten in other areas, but for Maryland the War of 1812 was all too real. The Royal Navy roamed the Chesapeake with impunity, occupied Tangier Island, burned Frenchtown, attacked St. Michaels and Havre de Grace, sacked the nation's capitol after defeating the militia at Bladensburg, before meeting defeat after a combined sea-land attack on Baltimore City, which was immortalized in Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner." There is also a chapter on the infamous Baltimore riot of 1812.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, War of 1812
Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.
Notes: This intensive and insightful study of a single county offers insight into several large themes in Maryland history - "the American Revolution as a transforming, ongoing phenomenon, civilian's responses to the War for Independence, the tenor of the nation's formative years, and the nature of Chesapeake society." During this period Charles Country changed from prosperous economy, securely connected to the outside world through overseas trade, into a stagnant backwater, whose forward looking population searched for opportunity elsewhere. Unlike other areas of Maryland, where the Revolutionary years were tumultuous, there were few challenges to the status quo. Cut off from the empire, entrepreneurial whites left the county in search of wealth and opportunity, often as close as Washington, DC, and the population became overwhelmingly unfree.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Charles County
Wagandt, Charles L. "Election by Sword and Ballot: the Emancipationist Victory of 1863." Maryland Historical Magazine 59 (1964): 143-164.
Categories: African American, Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Walker, Paul Kent. The Baltimore Community and the American Revolution: A Study in Urban Development, 1763-1783. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced Baltimore during the War of 1812. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, Published for Mystic Seaport, Inc., 1977.
Notes: The British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 was motivated by a desire to punish the city for being a nest of republicans and privateers. This book traces in admirable detail the history of privateering - from the ships, outfitting, captains and crews, investors, their successes and failures, through the distribution of the prize money. While the pirates on the Spanish main may have been the dregs of the sea, Baltimore's privateers were underwritten by some of its leading mercantile and political leaders. The book includes useful appendices identifying the privateers, investors and proceeds.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Cole, Merle T. "Racing Real Estate, and Realpolitik: The Havre De Grace State Military Reservation." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Fall 1996): 328-46.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Harford County
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
Jensen, Ann. "Pioneers of Naval Aviation." Annapolitan 2 (November 1988): 60-63.
Kanarek, Harold. The Mid-Atlantic Engineers: A History of the Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1774-1974. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1978?].
Notes: The Baltimore harbor and shipping and Maryland's internal improvements are covered.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Stuart, Charles B. Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers of America. New York: Van Nostrand, 1871.
Notes: Because of the National Road, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Maryland was a training ground for the nation's 19th century civil engineers and bridge designers. Stuart's book, though dated, has chapters on several nationally-important individuals who learned their trade on one of more of these state public works.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Summers, Festus P. The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War. New York: Putnam's, 1939.
Notes: The B&O was the Union's most important railroad during the conflict. Summers's book "presents a scholarly, objective, and conscientious approach to the subject in hand with literary execution of unusual excellence," said Maryland historian Matthew Page Andrews in his 1940 <em>Maryland Historical Magazine</em> review.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Urbas, Anton. "Military Airport at Vale Farm, 1919-1929." Journal of the Alleghenies 28 (1992): 3-13.
Categories: Military, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
Welch, Rebecca Hancock. "The Army Learns to Fly: College Park, Maryland, 1909-1913." Maryland Historian 21 (Fall/Winter 1990): 38-51.
Categories: Military, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Addison-Darneille, and Henrietta Stockton. "For Better or For Worse." Civil War Times Illustrated 31 (May/June 1992): 32-35, 73.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Cale, Clyde C., Jr. "Jane Snyder's Ride." Glades Star 9 (March 1999): 14-18.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Women, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
Cale, Clyde C., Jr. "Maria Louise Browning: Civil War Heroine." Glades Star 9 (March 1999): 11-13, 39.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Women, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County, Civil War
Cavanaugh, Joanne P. "Women of War." Johns Hopkins Magazine 50 (November 1998): 46-54.
Categories: Medicine, Military, Women, Twentieth Century
Conklin, E. F. Exile to Sweet Dixie: The Story of Euphemia Goldsborough, Confederate Nurse and Smuggler. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1998.
Categories: Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century
Coryell, Janet L. "Anna Ella Carroll and the Historians." Civil War History 35 (June 1989): 120-37.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Crook, Mary Charlotte. "Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Confederate Spy." Montgomery County Story 32 (May 1989): 59-70.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Women, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Davis, Curtis Carroll. "'The Pet of the Confederacy' Still? Fresh Findings About Belle Boyd." Maryland Historical Magazine 78 (Spring 1983): 35- 53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Davis, Curtis Carroll. "The Tribulations of Mrs. Turner: An Episode After Guilford Court House." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (December 1981): 376-79.
Categories: Military, Women, Eighteenth Century
"Derma Marie Yeiser Williams." Carroll County History Journal 44 (November 1993): 3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Women, Twentieth Century, Carroll County