The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Baer, Christopher T. Canals and Railroads of the Mid-Atlantic States. Wilmington: Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, 1981.
Notes: Excellent maps.
Baker, Aaron. "Oakland Railroad Station." Glades Star 8 (June 1997): 223, 227, 226.
Banz, Richard. "Maryland and Pennsylvania, a Vanishing Harford Heritage." Harford Historical Bulletin 36 (Spring 1988): 53-57.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Harford County
Bateman, Carroll. The Baltimore and Ohio. Baltimore: B&O Railroad, 1951.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
"The Bear Creek Railroad." Glades Star 7 (December 1995): 652-56.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Beck, Jo. "Train Stations and Suburban Development Along the Old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad." Montgomery County Story 37 (February 1994): 285-95.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Montgomery County
"Beginning Point of McCulloch's Path?" Glades Star 6 (September 1989): 344-45, 349.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Bell, J. Snowden. The Early Motive Power of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1912; reprint, New York: Angus Sinclair, 1975.
Notes: Necessary reading for students of the nation's first railroad.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Bernard, William S., and Forrest E. Meeks. "The Maryland State Police Aviation Division: Helicopters in the Public Service." Verti-flite 37 (May 1991): 10-17.
A Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineers. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1972.
Notes: Many of America's outstanding nineteenth century railroad engineers got their early experience in Maryland; this book lists several of them.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Blazina, Christine. "'Now and Then'." Passport to the Past 4 (Fall 1993): 1, 8.
Notes: College Park Airport.
Bowen, Ele. Rambles in the Path of the Steam Horse. Philadelphia: n.p., 1855.
Notes: Covers the B&O Railroad line between Baltimore and Wheeling WV. Idiosyncratic but useful with charming and historically valuable sketches.
"Braddock Road Historians." Glades Star 9 (September 1999): 113-19; 9 (December 1999): 132-33.
Breihan, John R., Stan Piet, and Roger S. Mason. Martin Aircraft, 1909-1960. Santa Ana, CA: Narkiewicz-Thompson, ca. 1995.
Brewington, M. V. Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1963.
"The Bridge That Disappears." Glades Star 7 (March 1992): 2-3.
"Bridges over the Youghiogheny River." Glades Star 6 (September 1986): 48-51.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Brown, Alexander Crosby. The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940. New York: Bonanza, 1940.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Brown, William H. The History of the First Locomotives in America. New York: D. Appleton, 1871.
Notes: Includes an account and a dramatic fold-out illustration of the famous race between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's early locomotive, the <em>Tom Thumb</em>, and the horse.
Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Circle. Cambridge, MD: Cornell, 1965.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Sailing Craft. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater, 1975.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H. This Was Chesapeake Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1963.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H., and H. Graham Wood. Steamboats Out of Baltimore. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1965.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
Buschman, Charles F. Streetcars of Baltimore, Some Drawings by Charles F. Buschman. Baltimore: Baltimore Streetcar Museum, 1995.
"But Nobody Got Paid." Glades Star 6 (June 1988): 198-200.
Notes: Train wreck at Oakland Station in 1897.