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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

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

"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.

Requardt, Cynthia Horsburgh. "Women's Deeds in Women's Words: Manuscripts in the Maryland Historical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (June 1978): 186-204.

Wennersten, John R. "One Man's Museum: Brannock Maritime Museum." Maryland 20 (Summer 1988): 46-49.

Chused, Richard H. Private Acts in Public Places: A Social History of Divorce in the Formative Era of American Family Law. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

"Divorce in Maryland." Newsletter of the Maryland Archives 1 (October 1984): 7.

Rottier, Catherine M. "Ellen Spencer Mussey and the Washington College of Law." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 361-82.

Thurlow, Katharine. "Profiles." Maryland Bar Journal 19 (June 1986): 24-25.
Notes: Pioneer female lawyers in Maryland.
Categories: Politics and Law, Women

Van Ness, James S. "On Untying the Knot: The Maryland Legislature and Divorce Petitions." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 171-175.
Categories: Politics and Law, Women

Bentley, Amy. "Wages of War: The Shifting Landscape of Race and Gender in World War II Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Winter 1993): 420-43.
Notes: Bentley examines the impact of the dramatic changes occasioned by World War II-era production in Baltimore. In terms of race, while Jim Crow patterns prevailed in various arenas, most notably housing, new employment opportunities eventually became available as well, especially in such critical industries as steel and other war-related industries. Similarly, the role of women in employment expanded even as traditional roles were reaffirmed. Bentley argues that new wartime values challenged conventional stereotypes regarding race and gender and provided the basis for eventual changes.

Coers, D. V. "New Light on the Composition of Ebenezer Cook's Sot-Weed Factor." American Literature 49 (January 1978): 604-06.
Notes: Coers offers evidence to support the contention that Ebenezer Cook's satire <em>The Sot-Weed Factor</em> was likely written no earlier than 1702, later than the 1695 date previously ascribed. He draws upon internal references in Cook's writing to Queen Anne, not crowned monarch until 1702, and a Dorchester County Court land record to support his case. The later date would suggest that the work was based on his visit to Maryland in the 1690s, but not written until afterwards.

Gibb, James G., and Julia A. King. "Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 109-131.
Notes: Using archaeological records and spatial analysis from three Southern Maryland tobacco plantation sites, the authors provide an ethnographic look at life for seventeenth-century Maryland colonists in terms of gender and class roles. The article provides a brief overview of the economics of the Chesapeake region, the structure of living arrangements, and the gendered nature of tasks. The evidence suggests how gendered and class-based activities contributed to both household production and accrued wealth. The authors conclude that comparisons between the three sites provide the basis for understanding how household wealth was a direct corollary of the ability to secure a large work force and to develop a high degree of specialization.

Harris, JoAnn. "Claire McCardell: Maryland's Fashion Prophet." Maryland 7 (Winter 1974): 2-5.

Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia. African-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Norton, M. B. "Gender, Crime, and Community in Seventeenth-century Maryland." In The Transformation of Early American History, edited by James A. Henretta, Michael Katz, and S. N. Katz, 123-150. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1991.

Rice, James D. "Laying Claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker: Family Violence on Baltimore's Waterfront, 1808-1812." In Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Sparks, Barry. "From Maryland's Past: The Dorchester County Baseball War." Maryland 20 (Summer 1988): 41.

Wennersten, John R. "Dorchester County's Celebrity Hunt." Maryland 20 (Autumn 1987): 16- 19.

Acton, Lucy. "Maryland's Longest-active Woman Trainer Is All Keyed up with Two Stakes Winners." Maryland Horse 61 (April/May 1995): 46-48.

Addison-Darneille, and Henrietta Stockton. "For Better or For Worse." Civil War Times Illustrated 31 (May/June 1992): 32-35, 73.

Adelson, Bruce. "Clara Schillace Donahoe." Maryland 27 (May/June 1995): 80.

"Adriana Zarbin: 1994-1995 Alliance President." Maryland Medical Journal 43 (June 1994): 533-34.

Agnew, Elizabeth N. Charity, Friendly Visiting, and Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Shaping of an American Profession. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1999.

Ayers, Bonnie Joe. "Sadie Miller." Maryland 17 (Autumn 1984): 39-41.

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