The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Jackl, W. E. "Station Number Eleven of the Enoch Pratt Free Library." Journal of Library History 7 (1972): 141-156.
Notes: East Baltimore's Station Number Eleven, which began in two rooms in a settlement house was amazingly successful in servicing its Jewish immigrant population with very mere resources. This article includes some discussion in the early 20th century library controversy of whether or not libraries should collection non-English works. Also stressed is the role the public library played in the Americanization of the immigrant.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Kellman, Naomi. "From File Drawer to Heritage Center: A Brief History of the Jewish Historical Society." Generations (Fall 1986): 9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Key, Betty McKeever, comp. Oral History in Maryland: A Directory. Edited by Larry E. Sullivan. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981.
Notes: Although it is very outdated, this directory should serve be the starting point for anyone attempting to locate oral history collections relevant to Maryland. Collections surveyed were not only in institutional hands (schools, libraries, and historical agencies) but also belonged to governmental agencies and private individuals. Included are DC and PA collections of potential interest.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Levinson, Nancy Smiler. "Takin' It to the Streets: The History of the Book Wagon." Library Journal 116 (May 1, 1991): 43-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Marcum, Deanna B. Good Books in a Country Home: The Public Library as Cultural Force in Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Marcum, Deanna Bowling. The Rural Public Library: Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Marcum, Deanna B. "The Rural Public Library in America at the Turn of the Century." Libraries and Culture 26 (Winter 1991): 87-99.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Maryland, Our Maryland: An Ethnic and Cultural Directory. Baltimore: Baltimore Council for International Visitors, 1975.
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
Nitzberg, Gertrude Singer. "The Music Library of the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, Inc." Generations 3 (December 1982): 37-38.
Notes: A discussion of the development of an oral history program to capture Yiddish songs. The Society was also actively collecting old Jewish 78 rpm records and sheet music.
Categories: Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Old Clear Spring Library Remembered." Maryland Cracker Barrel (Dec. 1999/Jan 2000): 26, 28.
Notes: The small, volunteer run, Clear Spring Library developed in a building which had served as a community kitchen and a soldier's canteen. The library existed only between the two great wars. This brief history is compiled from the quotes of community members.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Polites, Angeline, comp., and ed. Maryland 350th Anniversary Speakers Guide and Directory. Annapolis: Maryland Commission on Ethnic Affairs, 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Reichman, Felix. "German Printing in Maryland: A Check List, 1768-1950." Report of the Society for the History of Germans in Maryland 27 (1950): 9-70.
Categories: Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
"Revolutionary War Museums and Sites of Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Summer 2001): 25.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Science and Technology, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Frederick County, Harford County, Washington County
Saye, Hymen. The Papers of Harry Greenstein: Saga of a Humanitarian. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Scarpaci, Jean. The Ethnic Experience in Maryland: A Bibliography of Resources. Towson: Towson State University, [1978].
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Shopes, Linda. "The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project: Oral History and Community Involvement." Radical History Review 25 (October 1981): 27-44.
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Weiser, Frederick S., ed. "Eighteenth Century German Church Records from Maryland: A Checklist." The Report: A Journal of German-American History 38 (1982): 5-14.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Caroline County, Frederick County, Washington County, Chesapeake Region
Clawson, Frank D. "These Men of Maryland Helped Launch Our USA Constitution." Cracker Barrel 17 (December 1987): 23-25, 30.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Washington County
Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. "Matthias de Sousa: Colonial Maryland's Black, Jewish Assemblyman." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (December 1978): 397-98.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Politics and Law
Musey, Reuben L. "Washington and Lincoln Both Visited Our County as President." Cracker Barrel 17 (February 1988): 28-29.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Washington County
Rhodes, Irwin S. "Early Legal Records of Jews of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." American Jewish Archives 12 (1960): 96-108.
Categories: Ethnic History, Politics and Law
Rice, James D. "'This Province, so meanly and Thinly Inhabited': Labor, Race, and Penal Practices in Maryland, 1681-1837." Journal of the Early Republic, 19 (Spring 1999): 15-42.
Weaver, Glenn. "Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania Germans." William and Mary Quarterly 14 (1957): 536-559.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century
Wyand, Jeffrey A. "The Hundreds of Washington County." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 302-306.
Categories: Politics and Law, Washington County