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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Anderson, George M., S. J. "Growing Sugar Cane in Montgomery County: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Experiment by James W. Anderson." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Summer 1984): 134-41.

Anderson, George M. "Growth, Civil War, and Change: The Montgomery County Agricultural Society, 1850-1876." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Winter 1991): 396-406.

Anderson, George M. "The Montgomery County Agricultural Society: The Beginning Years, 1846-1850." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Winter 1986): 305-15.

Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1925.
Notes: Mentions Maryland only regarding farming in 1840 and peach orchards, but is useful since so many Pennsylvania Germans settled in Frederick County.

Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.

Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1933.
Notes: From barley to wool, Gray's great work is unsurpassed in its detail about farming from Maryland's founding to the Civil War.

Pursell, Carroll W., Jr. "The Administration of Science in the Department of Agriculture, 1933-1940." Agricultural History 42 (1968): 231-240.
Notes: Henry A. Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of Agriculture, championed scientific research because he himself was scientist a hybrid corn breeder. Using emergency relief funds from the National Recovery Administration, Wallace, in 1934, transformed the small experiment station in Beltsville into a great national research center. The Bankhead-Jones Act then funded the basic research agenda.

Anderson, George M., S. J. "The Approach of the Civil War as Seen in the Letters of James and Mary Anderson of Rockville." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Summer 1993): 189-202.

Becraft, Leonard A. "Greenwood, One of our Oldest Homes." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 1, 7.

Becraft, Leonard Allen. "The Greenwood Story-Part II." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 1, 5, 4.

Brigham, Dave. "Born on the Edge." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 1, 4.

Canby, Tom. "Jack Bentley: No Ordinary Ball Player." Legacy 17 (Summer 1997): 1, 7.

Cissel, Anne W. "Those Amazing Keys: Francis Scott and F. Scott Key Fitzgerald." Montgomery County Story 37 (August 1994): 297-308.

Clark, Charles B. "Correction in the Article on Charles Alexander Warfield Commemorations, October 8, 1994." Legacy 38 (February 1995): 6.

Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Brooke Beall, First Clerk of the Court for Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 32 (November 1989): 83-92.

Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Land Speculators: James Butler and John Bradford." Montgomery County Story 36 (November 1993): 273-84.

Crook, Mary Charlotte. "Walter Perry Johnson." Montgomery County Story 35 (May 1992): 201-11.

Crook, Mary Charlotte. "The Two Avenel Farms and the Rapley Family." Montgomery County Story 39 (May 1996): 381-91.

Farquhar, Roger B. "The Slaying of Frank Hallowell." Legacy 18 (Fall 1998): 1, 7.

Farquhar, Roger B. "The 'Check' That Wasn't: A War Story." Legacy 18 (Fall 1998): 1, 3.

"George Washington, 1732-1799: His Light Shines." Legacy 37 (February 1994): 2, 5.

Griffin, Patrick J., III. "Tragedy of Two Cousins-Adventurers or Spies?" Montgomery County Story 34 (November 1991): 177-88.

Humphries-Russ, Lynne. "Wallace Nutting (1861-1941)." Legacy 41 (Fall 1998): 3, 5.

Jacobs, Charles, and Marian Waters. "Colonel Elijah Veirs White." Montgomery County Story 22 (February 1979): 1-11.

Kurtz, Michael J. John Gottlieb Morris: Man of God, Man of Science. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1997.

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