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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.

A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Frederick County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.

A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Washington County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.

Hammond, Helen. "Field Trip: Historical Society of Frederick County." Frederick Magazine (April 1994): 31-33.

Levinson, Nancy Smiler. "Takin' It to the Streets: The History of the Book Wagon." Library Journal 116 (May 1, 1991): 43-5.

"The Library Dedication Kicks Off Hood's Centennial ..." Hood College Magazine (Winter 1992): 4-7.

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.

Marcum, Deanna Bowling. The Rural Public Library: Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991.

Marcum, Deanna B. "The Rural Public Library in America at the Turn of the Century." Libraries and Culture 26 (Winter 1991): 87-99.

"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.

"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Textile Collection at the Maryland Historical Society Museum." Maryland Humanities (September 2000): 27.

Ohr, Erica. "Museums for Kids." Frederick Magazine (February 1994): 44-45.

"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.

Russell, Donna Valley. Frederick County, Maryland, Genealogical Research Guide. Middletown: Catoctin Press, 1987.

Wallace, David H. "McSherry Papers Donated." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (September 1997): 1, 3.

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.

Willmann, William G. "The Historical Society: First Hundred Years." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (March 1988) 3-4.

Clawson, Frank D. "These Men of Maryland Helped Launch Our USA Constitution." Cracker Barrel 17 (December 1987): 23-25, 30.

Musey, Reuben L. "Washington and Lincoln Both Visited Our County as President." Cracker Barrel 17 (February 1988): 28-29.

Nelson, W. Dale. The President is at Camp David. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Rice, James D. Crime and Punishment in Frederick County and Maryland, 1748-1837: A Study in Culture, Society, and Law. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1994.

Ridgway, Whitman Hawley. A Social Analysis of Maryland Community Elites, 1827-1836: A Study of the Distribution of Power in Baltimore City, Frederick County and Talbot County. Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1973.

Wyand, Jeffrey A. "The Hundreds of Washington County." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 302-306.

Ridgway, Whitman H. Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840. A Comparative Analysis of Power in Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: Applying social science methodology to reconstruct patterns of decision making and their significance, this work examines the formation of elites in four political communities representing the diversity of the state (Baltimore City, and the counties of Frederick, St. Mary's, and Talbot) in two political eras (the Jeffersonian and the Jacksonian). In the more rural areas, such as St. Mary's and Talbot counties, decision makers overlapped with those who held public office and dominated community affairs, and little changed between the two periods. Where there was greater social and economic diversity, the patterns were considerably different. Elites became more specialized forcing decision makers to accommodate the demands of new leaders who represented a expanding popular political base. Members of the different elites (decisional, commercial, positional and traditional) are identified, along with individual socio-economic information, in the appendices.

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