The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
"Benjamin Stoddert, First Secretary of the Navy." Friends of Preservation Newsletter 16 (Fall 1998): 2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Bennett, Joyce. "Edwin Warfield Beitzel: Poet, Southern Agrarian, Renaissance Man." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Spring 1999): 345-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Bentley, Judith. Harriet Tubman. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.
Betterly, Richard. "Seize Mr. Lincoln." Civil War Times Illustrated 25 (February 1987): 14-21.
Notes: 1861 Baltimore plot.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Beynon, Jo. "John Louis Wellington: Artist and Banker." Journal of the Alleghenies 34 (1998): 37-39.
Birch, Alison Wyrley. "The Lady Was a General." Maryland 12 (Autumn 1979): 7-11.
Notes: Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1893) was the daughter of a governor of Maryland whose own political career was an exception to the secondary role of most 19th century women in national affairs. In the 1850s and 1860s, Carroll wrote political tracts and advised political leaders in the Know Nothing and Republican parties. She also contributed to Union military strategy during the Civil War, corresponding with Abraham Lincoln and others in Washington.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Politics and Law, Women, Nineteenth Century
Bjerke, Gene. "Messenger of Victory." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (October 1989): 83-85.
Notes: Tench Tilghman.
Blakey, Arch Frederick. General John H. Winder, C.S.A. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Somerset County, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Bloch, Michael, ed. Wallis and Edward: Letters, 1931-1937. New York: Summit Books, 1986.
Notes: Wallis Warfield Simpson, born and raised in Baltimore.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
The Body in the Barn: The Controversy Over the Death of John Wilkes Booth Compiled from Articles Presented in "The Surratt Courier." Clinton, MD: Surratt Society, 1993.
Booth, John W. "Right or Wrong, God Judge Me": Writings of John Wilkes Booth. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Bourne, Michael. "Walter T. Pippin-Designer, Contractor and Builder." Old Kent 10 (Summer 1993): [3-9].
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Bowen, Harold S. "Henry Fleete." Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine 40 (1990): 4633-42.
Bowers, Q. David., Sr. Louis E. Eliasberg: King of Coins. Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1996.
Bowes, David B. "So Proudly He Hailed." Mid-Atlantic Country 17 (July/August 1996): 34-37, 118.
Bowling, Garth, Jr. "Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher." The Record 63 (April 1994): 1-2.
Bowling, Garth, Jr. "The Forgotten Cavalier: Joseph Lancaster Brent." The Record 43 (May 1988): 1-2.
Bowling, Garth, Jr. "Wallace Bowling-An Oration." The Record 67 (April 1995): 2-3.
Brandt, Ed. Rafael Palmeiro: At Home with the Baltimore Orioles. Childs, MD: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 1998.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Brennan, John C. "John Wilkes Booth's Enigmatic Brother Joseph." Maryland Historical Magazine 78 (Spring 1983): 22-34.
Breslaw, Elaine G. "A Perilous Climb to Social Eminence: Dr. Alexander Hamilton and His Creditors." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 433-55.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century
Bretholz, Leo. Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe. Baltimore: Woodholme House Publishers, 1999.
Brigham, Dave. "Born on the Edge." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 1, 4.
Briscoe, Mabel. "America's First Fossil Hunter." Calvert Historian 9 (Fall 1994): 70-78.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Broome, John P. Memoirs. Edited by Ailene W. Hutchins. Broomes Island, MD: Published by the author, 1977.