The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Maryland Geological Survey. Calvert County. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1907.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Reveal, James L. "'Baltimora:' The Curious Tale of How a Flowering Plant from Mexico was Named for the Maryland City of Baltimore." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 1-6.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore City, Calvert County
Steury, Brent W. Floristics Survey for Vascular Plants of Cove Point, Calvert County, Maryland. Lusby, MD: Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Calvert County
Steury, Brent W. "Survey for Endangered, Threatened and Rare Vascular Plants in Cove Point Marsh, Calvert County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 41 (July/December 1997): 89-96.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Calvert County
Stevenson, J. Court, and Karen Sundeberg. Historical Shoreline Configurations at Cove Point >From Original Patents and Later Shoreline Surveys. Lusby, MD: Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust, 1997.
Notes: Stevenson is largely concerned with historical documents, but he has embedded wonderful insights into forest, river and land-use practices. He publishes an account of a hike down the Chesapeake shore which graphically demonstrates how much the region has changed.
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Abel, E. Lawrence. Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000.
Notes: An in-depth look at every aspect of music during the Civil War, as it pertains to the southern cause. Although not focused on any particular state, there are important Maryland connections, for example the background and impact of "Maryland, My Maryland!" Cultural and political context are this author's strong suits, as he describes band music, songs of the common soldiers, parlor music of the day, and theatrical offerings.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Military, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century
Alexander, Douglas, II. "Stendhal and Violence on the Baltimore Stage." Maryland Historical Magazine 66 (1971): 68-72.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater
Archer, Stephen M. Junius Brutus Booth. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.
Baker, Mary Lou. "The Annapolis Symphony: An Orchestra with Pizzazz!" Maryland 26 (November/December 1994): 38-43.
Categories: Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
Barnett, David. "'Maryland,' The Movie." Maryland 21 (Spring 1989): 69.
Bartel, Dennis. "Knabe Pianos...For Genteel People of Means." Maryland 24 (Spring 1992): 42-47.
Categories: Music and Theater
Benson, Norman Arthur. The Itinerant Dancing and Music Masters of Eighteenth-Century America. Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1963.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century
Bernard, Kenneth A. "Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War." Lincoln Herald 66 (1964): 115-134.
Categories: African American, Military, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Black, Mary Childs. The Theatre in Colonial Annapolis. M.A. thesis, George Washington University, 1952.
"BMI is 'Making Music' All Summer Long." Nuts and Bolts 12 (Summer 1994): 1.
Categories: Music and Theater
Bond, Chrystelle T. "A Chronicle of Dance in Baltimore, 1780-1814." Dance Perspectives 66, vol. 17 (Summer 1976).
Notes: A summary of dancing, both ballroom and theatre, in Baltimore during an important 34-year period, with a focus on dancemasters William Francis (active at Holliday Street theatre 1794-1826) and Pierre Landrin Duport (active in Baltimore 1791-2, 1802-10), as well as musician Alexandria Reinagle and stage dancer John Durang and his descendents. Bond focuses on themes like patriotism and exoticism (through pantomime and French ballet), showing how choreographed upper class dances of the colonial period (like the minuet) gradually gave way to the simple, more commercial dances for the middle classes. This is an essential study for music, theatre and dance historians.
Categories: Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Breslaw, Elaine G. "An Early Maryland Musical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 436-37.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Breslaw, Elaine G. Records of the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1745-56. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Notes: Companion volume to Talley,<em> Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis</em>.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Brunner, Raymond J. "Baltimore Organs and Organbuilding in the Nineteenth Century." Tracker 35, no. 2 (1991): 12.
Notes: Well organized and appropriately illustrated, Brunner first summarizes organ-building in Baltimore up to 1850. He then focuses on specific builders James Hall, Henry Berger, August Pomplitz, Charles Strohl, Heilner & Schumacher, Henry Niemann, Adam Stein, and George Barker's Baltimore Organ Co. Drawing on earlier published works by Thomas Eader and John Speller and Orpha Ochse, Brunner's article reveals the competitive sprit felt among various Baltimore congregations, and also the status of this craft in relation to other Eastern seaboard cities.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Music and Theater, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Carney, Benjamin Franklin. The Baltimore Theatre Project, 1971-1983: Toward a People's Theatre. Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri, 1985.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater
Chidsey, Martha Ann. The West Street Theatre, Annapolis, Maryland: 1771-74. M.A. thesis, American University, 1977.
Chowning, Larry S. "The Show Boat." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 17 (June 1987): 62-66.
Categories: Music and Theater
Cissel, Anne W. "Public Houses of Entertainment and their Proprietors, 1750-1828." Montgomery County Story 30 (August 1987): 279-94.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Clarke, Donald. Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century