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
Pittman, LaVern. "Walnut Level: A Model Farm in Allegany County." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 3-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County
Dean, David M. "Meshach Browning: Bear Hunter of Allegany County, 1781-1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 73-83.
Notes: Meshach Browning was the author of an autobiography, <em>Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter</em>, that might more properly be seen as a tall tale wrapped around the framework of an actual life. Browning (1751-1859) inhabited the frontier in the westernmost part of Maryland that later became Garrett County. He claimed to have killed 400 bears in his career. For those attracted to the stories of Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyon, Meshach Browning's life offers entertaining reading.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Kester, John G. "Charles Polke: Indian Trader of the Potomac." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Winter 1995): 446-65.
The McKaig Journal, a Confederate Family of Cumberland. Cumberland, MD: Allegheny County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Urbas, Anton. "Tony Urbas Has a Career Change." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 37-48.
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
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
Cordts, Jeanne M. "Iron Fences in Frostburg." Journal of the Alleghenies 31 (1995): 89-98.
Cumberland Historic Buildings Cumberland, MD: Mayor and City Council, 1987.
Newell, Dianne. The Failure to Preserve the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, Maryland. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1975.
Silverman, Sharon H. "The Castle B&B." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): 58-62.
Ware, Donna M. Green Glades & Sooty Gob Piles: The Maryland Coal Region's Industrial and Architectural Past. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1991.
Notes: Some 6,000 bridges, iron furnaces, log schoolhouses, company offices and stores, miner's houses, mill buildings, banks, churches, mansions, inns, resort cottages, and other structures associated with the extractive, manufacturing, and transportation industries of Garrett and western Allegany counties are surveyed and described here, with photographs, and contributions by Orlando Ridout, V, Geoffey B. Henry, and Mark R. Edwards. The largest project to date conducted by the Maryland Historical Trust is essential to an understanding of the unique remains of Maryland's historic resort area and coal and iron district.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County, Garrett County
Allen, Irvin G. Historic Oldtown Maryland. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Blumgart, Pamela James, ed. At the Head of the Bay: A Cultural and Architectural History of Cecil County, Maryland. Elkton, MD: Cecil Historical Trust, 1996.
Notes: This beautifully illustrated book presents a history of the development of the county along with a history of its architecture, including house forms, methods of construction, and outbuildings, along with brief write-ups on 700 historic sites.
Categories: Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Native American, Transportation and Communication, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Bross-Fregonara, Nanci. "Allegany County." Mid-Atlantic Country 12 (January 1991): WM11, WM15-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
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
Buckley, Geoffrey L. "Converting Minerals into Merchandise: Landownership and Environmental Alteration in the George's Creek Valley of Western Maryland, 1789-1842." Historical Geography 26 (1998): 151-75.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Clark, Charles Branch. The Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia. 3 vols. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1950.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Native American, Women, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Crawford, Joan B. "A Heritage Preserved: The Creative Traditions of Western Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 38-44.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County, Washington County
Erickson, Marie Anne. "Crossroads: Yellow Springs." Frederick Magazine (December 1992): 12-13.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Environment, Music and Theater, Native American, Transportation and Communication, Frederick County
Fair, Patricia Stover, comp. Everyname Index to History of Allegany County Maryland. Oklahoma City, OK: Fair Printing Co., 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Downtown Cumberland. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County