The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Johnson, Robert C., ed. "Virginia in 1632." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957): 458-466.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Bull, J. Edmund. "John Love: The Forgotten Patriot." Harford Historical Bulletin 11 (Spring/Summer 1977): 42, 44.
Notes: Biographical Sketch of Love (1730-1793).
Callum, Agnes Kane. "Corporal Philip Webster: A Civil War Soldier." Harford Historical Bulletin 35 (Winter 1988): 3-6.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Harford County, Civil War
Carr, William O. "Gabriel Christie: Harford's Jeffersonian Congressman." Harford Historical Bulletin 52 (Spring 1992): 49-69.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Chrismer, James E. "A Saga of the Civil War: William and Margaret Bissell." Harford Historical Bulletin 60 (Spring 1994): 51-94.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Harford County, Civil War
Dorsey, James. "Faithful Mammy and Family of J. A. Hunter." Harford Historical Bulletin 46 (Autumn 1990): 75-77.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Dryden, Elaine. "Thomas Archer Hays, Sr." Harford Historical Bulletin 25 (Summer 1985): 38-41.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Fox, Dorothy. "Childhood Home of an American Arch-Villain." Civil War Times Illustrated 29 (March/April 1990): 12, 16, 18, 66-67.
Notes: John Wilkes Booth.
Kester, John G. "Charles Polke: Indian Trader of the Potomac." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Winter 1995): 446-65.
"Larry MacPhail: Harford County's Laird of Glenangus and 'The Shrewdest Executive in the History of Baseball'." Harford Historical Bulletin 59 (Winter 1994): 3-26.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Noll, Linda. "J. Edmund Bull: Founder of Steppingstone Museum (1904-1976)." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 139-44.
Noll, Linda. "William Lorenzo Foard (1885-1981) and the Foard Blacksmith Shop." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 148-52.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Peden, Henry C., Jr. "Col. Aquila Hall: Harford County's Revolutionary War Patriot." Harford Historical Bulletin 34 (Fall 1987): 71-75.
Prettyman, George B., Sr. "Lester Stanley German: Major League Baseball Player in the 1890s." Harford Historical Bulletin 54 (Fall 1992): 117-20.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Robbins, Charles L. R. Madison Mitchell, His Life and Decoys. Bel Air, MD: Published by the author, 1987.
Notes: A Havre de Grace wood carver.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Harford County
Rollo, Vera F. Henry Harford: Last Proprietor of Maryland. N.p.: Harford County Committee of the Maryland Bicentennial Commission, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Harford County
Stiverson, Gregory A., and Jacobsen, Phebe R. William Paca: A Biography. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976.
Notes: Visitors to Annapolis mostly associate William Paca (1740-1799) with a handsome house and gardens restored to their original glory. Paca hailed from Harford County, owned extensive property on the Eastern Shore, but moved to Annapolis and emerged as a patriotic leader during the revolutionary era. Elected Governor in 1782, Paca headed a state government that witnessed the final victory over the British. This short biography provides a good introduction to the man and his era.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Harford County
Sutherland, Hunter C. "Biographical Sketch of George Washington Archer (1824-1907)." Harford Historical Bulletin 38 (Fall 1988): 104-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Walker, Irma, and James T. Wollon, Jr. "George Archer's Life and Work." Harford Historical Bulletin 56 (Spring 1993): 35-57.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Watkins, McClarin. "I Remember Quarrying Slate at Delta-Cardiff." Harford Historical Bulletin 39 (Winter 1989): 10-17.
Abingbade, Harrison Ola. "The Settler-African Conflicts: The Case of the Maryland Colonists and the Grebo 1840-1900." Journal of Negro History 66 (Summer 1981): 93-109.
Categories: African American, Maritime, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Alpert, Jonathan L. "The Origin of Slavery in the United States: The Maryland Precedent." American Journal of Legal History 14 (1970): 189-222.
Notes: Maryland was the "first province in English North America to recognize slavery as a matter of law" (189). Therefore, the study of Maryland is useful for historians studying how American slavery was a product of the law. Early legislation recognized the existence of slavery, for while indentured servitude and slavery co-existed, and the terms were used interchangeably, the law still distinguished between the two. "All slaves were servants but not all servants were slaves" (193). However, it wasn't until 1664 when a statue was created which established slavery as hereditary. This statute was the first law in English North American to thus establish this type of slavery, legalizing what had been de facto since 1639. The author concludes that laws reflect the attitudes of a society and the manner in which societal problems are resolved. In the case of Maryland, servant problems could be avoided by replacing indentured servitude with perpetual slavery.
Categories: African American, Native American, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Austin, Gwendolyn Hackley. "In Search of the Little Black Guinea Man; A Case Study in Utilizing Harford County and other Maryland Resources to Track Black Family History." Harford Historical Bulletin 36 (Spring 1988): 29-41.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Harford County
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Craven, Wesley Frank. White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1971.
Notes: Remains the standard multi-cultural work for the 17th century.
Categories: African American, Ethnic History, Native American, Seventeenth Century