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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1925.
Notes: Mentions Maryland only regarding farming in 1840 and peach orchards, but is useful since so many Pennsylvania Germans settled in Frederick County.

Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.

Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1933.
Notes: From barley to wool, Gray's great work is unsurpassed in its detail about farming from Maryland's founding to the Civil War.

Helmann, Susan K. "'Celebrating 150 Years.'" Passport to the Past 3 (July/August 1992): 1-2, 5.
Notes: Prince George's County fair.

Lanham, Paul. "A 'Pie-in-The Sky' Dream." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 25 (May 1997): 3.

McCauley, Donald. The Limits of Change in the Tobacco South: An Economic and Social Analysis of Prince George's County, Maryland, 1840-1860. M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1973.

McCauley, Donald. "The Urban Impact on Agricultural Land Use: Farm Patterns in Prince George's County, Maryland 1860-1880." Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland. Edited by Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, 228-47. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Pursell, Carroll W., Jr. "The Administration of Science in the Department of Agriculture, 1933-1940." Agricultural History 42 (1968): 231-240.
Notes: Henry A. Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of Agriculture, championed scientific research because he himself was scientist a hybrid corn breeder. Using emergency relief funds from the National Recovery Administration, Wallace, in 1934, transformed the small experiment station in Beltsville into a great national research center. The Bankhead-Jones Act then funded the basic research agenda.

Virta, Alan. "This Spirit for Improvement." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 11 (July-August 1983): 33-35.

Walsh, Jim. "Barrels for a 'Middling Planter' in Colonial Prince George's County." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 25 (August/September 1997): 2-4.

Aleshire, William. "Maryland's Patriotic Signer of Continental Currency: The Forgotten Peale." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 14 (April 1986): 15-16.
Notes: St. George Peale.

Bull, J. Edmund. "John Love: The Forgotten Patriot." Harford Historical Bulletin 11 (Spring/Summer 1977): 42, 44.
Notes: Biographical Sketch of Love (1730-1793).

Callcott, Margaret Law. "The Calvert-Custis Connection." Riversdale Letter 14 (Spring 1997): 3.

Callum, Agnes Kane. "Corporal Philip Webster: A Civil War Soldier." Harford Historical Bulletin 35 (Winter 1988): 3-6.

Carr, William O. "Gabriel Christie: Harford's Jeffersonian Congressman." Harford Historical Bulletin 52 (Spring 1992): 49-69.

Chrismer, James E. "A Saga of the Civil War: William and Margaret Bissell." Harford Historical Bulletin 60 (Spring 1994): 51-94.

"Commodore Barney-A Sidelight." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 21 (November 1994): 2-7.

"Davy Burns or the Young Heiress." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 21 (March 1994): [5].

Dorsey, James. "Faithful Mammy and Family of J. A. Hunter." Harford Historical Bulletin 46 (Autumn 1990): 75-77.

Dryden, Elaine. "Thomas Archer Hays, Sr." Harford Historical Bulletin 25 (Summer 1985): 38-41.

Ferguson, Ann M. "Heritage of Another Riversdale Family." Riverdale Town Crier 26 (March 1997): 3.

Fox, Dorothy. "Childhood Home of an American Arch-Villain." Civil War Times Illustrated 29 (March/April 1990): 12, 16, 18, 66-67.
Notes: John Wilkes Booth.

"General Edward Fitzgerald Beale." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 16 (September 1988): 29-31.

Hall, James O. "Why John M. Lloyd was in Upper Marlboro." News and Notes, Prince George's County Historical Society 5 (January-February 1977): 3-4.

"Jackson H. Ralston, Esq. Hyattsville Luminary." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 23 (September 1995): 3-4.

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