The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Arnold, Joseph L. "The Town That Would Not Die; Baltimore: Going Strong at 250." University of Maryland Magazine 7 (Summer/Fall 1979): 2-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore City
Baltimore's Beginnings: A Guide to 23 Historically Significant Baltimore Communities. Fells Point, MD: Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point, Inc., 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore City
Beirne, D. Randall. "Hampden - Woodberry: The Mill Village in an Urban Setting." Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (Spring 1982): 6-26.
Notes: Although this Baltimore neighborhood is no longer a mill town, the area's geographic and social isolation has allowed it, in many ways, to preserve its mill town character. It is a largely homogenous community, predominantly working class.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Beirne, Francis F. The Amiable Baltimoreans. New York, 1951; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Notes: A social history of Baltimore City told through thematic chapters. Chapter topics are varied and include a wide range of subjects: i.e. monuments, food, sports, Hopkins Hospital, newspapers, and politics.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Beirne, Francis F., and Carleton Jones. Baltimore: A Picture History. 3rd ed., revised. Baltimore: Bodine & Associates, Inc. and Maclay & Associates, Inc., 1982.
Notes: The first, 1957, edition is probably Maryland's oldest photohistory. Short essays on a variety of subject are illustrated by an assortment of materials.
Berglund, Mark, et al. Patterson Park: Putting the Pieces Together: fall1994 graduate planning studio. [College Park, MD:] University of Maryland, [1994].
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Baltimore City
Bernard, Richard M. "A Portrait of Baltimore in 1800: Economic and Occupational Patterns in an Early American City." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 341-60.
Notes: This study looks at the social structure and physical location of Baltimore's population during its boom period. The author found Baltimore's rich and poor isolated from each other and the middle class decentralized. Many Baltimoreans worked near their home, while this allowed for the intermixing of people of different occupations, it kept different communities isolated from each other.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Blake, Allison. The Chesapeake Bay Book: A Complete Guide. 3rd edition. Lee, MA: Berkshire House Publishers, 1997.
Notes: A well researched tour guide for the general population.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Brain, John. Govans, Village and Suburb: A Picture History of a North Baltimore Community. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 1996.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Breihan, Jack. "Necessary Visions: Community Planning in Wartime." Maryland Humanities (November 1998): 11-14.
Notes: During World War II, as a result of the growth of the domestic immigration of industrial workers, two planned communities were developed in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The first of these was Baltimore County's Middle River, a community for whites, a project of the Martin aircraft plant. The second was Cherry Hill, a south Baltimore, black community. They were both garden suburbs focused on a central commercial center.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Brooklyn-Curtis Bay Historical Committee. A History of Brooklyn-Curtis Bay, 1776-1976. Baltimore: The Committee, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City
Browne, Gary L. "Urban Centers of the Past." Maryland Heritage News 2 (Fall 1984): 6-7.
Notes: A variety of factors effect the rise and fall of urban centers -- transportation, market, environmental, and political changes, as well as the rise of other centers. Browne presents a brief discussion of the fate of approximately ten urban centers.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Washington County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Carmichael, Thomas. "Buffalo/Baltimore, Athens/Dallas: John Barth, Don DeLillo, and the Cities of Postmodernism." Canadian Review of American Studies 22 (Fall 1991): 241-49.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery Greene. Baltimore, An Illustrated History. American Historical Press, 2000.
Notes: A history of Baltimore, 1608-2000, for the general reader. A chronological history is presented which touches upon growth, politics, economics, education, cultural organizations, etc. Included at the end is a series of approximately 45 histories of leading 20th century businesses, companies, and organizations.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Comer, Elizabeth Anderson, and Kirsten L. Stevens. "Mount Clare: Introducing Baltimore to Eighteenth Century Splendor." Maryland Archeology 26 (March and September 1990): 86-94.
Notes: A discussion of Charles Carroll, the Barrister's, Baltimore estate, with special emphasis on the gardens and the archeological work done there during the mid-1980s as a percussor to landscape restoration.
Categories: Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Curry, Leonard P. "Urbanization and Urbanism in the Old South: A Comparative View." Journal of Southern History 40 (February 1974): 43-60.
Notes: Baltimore is included in this author's study of the South's pre-1850 urban centers. Curry argues that these centers are often ignored in historian's views of the Old South even though some of the nation's largest cities were located in that region. Contrary to general view, the South did have urban and commercial centers and had more than a passing interest in manufacturing.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Darin, Grace. "The Story of Charles Village: The Building of a Community (1967-1974)." In Charles Village Journal, 6-18. Baltimore: Charles Village Civic Association, 1974.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
De Gast, Robert. "A Jones Falls Adventure." Baltimore 68 (September 1975): 20-25.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore City
Dehler, Katherine B. "Mt. Vernon Place at the Turn of the Century: A Vignette of the Garrett Family." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Fall 1974): 279-92.
Notes: The Garretts, Baltimore's grandest family, had a profound influence on the growth of culture and education in Baltimore. They also had a profound influence on their own neighborhood. Stanford White and Tiffany worked on their Mount Vernon Place home.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Delorenzo, Lisa Christine. Neighborhood Stability and Urban Policy: Fortifying the Link. Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Dürr, W. Theodore, ed. Baltimore People, Baltimore Places: A Neighborhood Album. Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Series in Social History, Vol. 1. Baltimore: University of Baltimore, [1980].
Notes: This photo history is narrated with quotes from oral histories collected by the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project. Special emphasis is placed on the working class.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Dürr, William Theodore. The Conscience of A City: A History of the Citizen's Planning and Housing Association and Efforts to Improve Housing for the Poor in Baltimore, Maryland, 1937-1954. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1972.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Dürr, W. Theodore. "People of the Peninsula." Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (Spring 1982): 27-53.
Notes: Dürr presents a hundred year history (1880-1980) of four distinct south Baltimore neighborhoods -- South Baltimore (including Federal Hill), Locust Point, Riverside, and Sharp-Leadenhall. Although distinct neighborhoods they functioned as a cohesive region.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Eager, Elizabeth H. "A Marquis'-Eye View of Baltimore." Baltimore 67 (November 1974): 24ff.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore City
Earle, Swepson. The Chesapeake Bay Country. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Company, 1923.
Notes: Divided into three regions -- southeastern Maryland, Upper Bay, and the Eastern Shore, this work includes a history for each, written by five noted authors, followed by a description of the counties in each, along with places of interest and the people of these places. The histories of the areas places special emphasis on major houses and genealogy of the owners. It is nicely illustrated with contemporary photographs, which nearly 80 years later serve as historic images. There are four pages of interesting photos of African Americans.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore