The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Diggs, Louis S. Holding On To Their Heritage. Catonsville, MD: privately printed, 1996.
Notes: Baltimore County African-American communities: Bond Avenue, Reisterstown; Piney Grove, Boring.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
Diggs, Louis S. In Our Own Voices: A Folk History in Legacy. Catonsville, MD: Uptown Press, 1998.
Notes: Baltimore County African-American communities: Chattolanee, Cowdensville, Oblate Sisters of Providence.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
Diggs, Louis S. It All Started on Winters Lane: A History of the Black Community in Catonsville, Maryland. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 1995.
Notes: A compilation on the history of the historic African American community of Winters Lane in Catonsville, this volume includes a rich collection of family history and documents related to the history of black churches, civic organizations, businesses, and social groups. It also provides several extensive oral histories with elders in the community. Like many African American communities in Baltimore County, Winters Lane had its roots in the pre-Civil War era as a settlement of free blacks who worked on area farms and in the growing village, and it has persisted into the modern period of suburbanization. Louis Diggs in this and other volumes on the county's historic African American communities includes an extensive set of photos and other documents previously unpublished on local black family and community life.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Goodwin, Louise Bland. "Chattolanee Hotel and Springs." History Trails 8 (no. 1, 1974): 4.
Grimes, Michael A. "Developing 'Frederick Terrace'." History Trails 26 (Spring-Summer 1992): 9-16.
Hastings, Lynne Dakin. "A Sure Bet: Thoroughbreds at Hampton." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Spring 1994): 22-37.
Jonnes, Jill. "Everybody Must Get Stoned: The Origins of Modern Drug Culture in Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Summer 1996): 132-55.
Notes: In this excerpt from her 1996 book (<em>Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs</em>), Jonnes chronicles the proliferation of drug use and drug culture in post-World War II Baltimore. Drawing upon first-person interviews and reports by criminologists, she traces the shift from relatively small-scale associations with hipster culture concentrated on Pennsylvania Avenue in the early period to its dramatic expansion in the 1960s, characterized by the introduction of harder drugs, heightened criminal activity, and greatly extended usage-not only in larger sections of the African American community in the city, but in the predominantly white suburbs as well.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Keir, Lisa S. "Scott's Tavern." History Trails 21 (Autumn 1986): 1-4.
Lancaster, R. Kent. "Almost Chattel: The Lives of Indentured Servants at Hampton-Northampton, Baltimore County." Maryland Historical Magazine 94 (Fall 1999): 340-62.
Orser, W. Edward. "Neither Separate Nor Equal: Foreshadowing Brown in Baltimore County, 1935-1937." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Spring 1997), 5-35.
Notes: Orser investigates a legal challenge to school segregation in Baltimore County in the 1930s. Argued by Thurgood Marshall, just after he joined the NAACP legal staff, the case tested the adequacy of the county's educational system for African Americans, which provided only for elementary schools in the county and for a limited number of tuition grants to attend high school in Baltimore City. Maryland courts ruled against Marshall and the NAACP at the time, but Orser contends that the court decisions laid the basis for the legal strategy which eventually succeeded before the U. S. Supreme Court in 1954.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Orser, Edward, and Joseph Arnold. Catonsville, 1880-1940: From Village to Suburb. Norfolk, VA: Donning Pubishing Co., 1989.
Notes: This photographic history traces the history of Catonsville, on Baltimore County's west side, from the 1880s, when the village center served the needs of travelers on Frederick Road and the surrounding agricultural area, as well as afforded sites for summer homes for some of Baltimore's elite, to 1940, when growth, development, and transportation links heightened its suburban character within the Baltimore metropolitan region. The volume includes research evidence on the social make-up of the community, such as the impact of German and Irish immigrants and the role of its historic African American community.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Parsons, Richard. "A 19th Century Social Service." History Trails 19 (Spring 1985): 9-12.
Parsons, Richard. "Almshouse Revisited." History Trails 21 (Winter 1986-1987): 5-8; (Spring 1987): 9-10.
Reutter, Mark. Sparrows Point: Making Steel-the Rise and Ruin of America's Industrial Might. New York: Summit Books, 1988.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Calvert County
Simkins, Katherine S. "Monkton View Farm, Part II." History Trails 22 (Summer 1988): 13-16.
Waesche, James F. Crowning the Gravelly Hill: A History of the Roland Park-Guilford-Homeland District. Baltimore: Maclay and Associates, 1987.
Notes: Waesche chronicles the history of the north Baltimore communities developed by the Roland Park Company in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which set the standard for elite suburban-style residency in the era. Under the direction of Edward Bouton, the three adjacent communities bore the stamp of Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape firm, which did some of the planning. The volume focuses upon building and development, with some attention to the social life of suburbs intended by Bouton to "catch the whole of the better class suburban development of the city."
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Akehurst, S. Virginia, and Eva E. Akehurst. "The Yeoho Road." History Trails 8, no. 1 (1974): 1-3.
Haile, Elmer R., Jr. "Post Office in the Long Green Area." History Trails 10 (Autumn 1975): 1-2.
Kanarek, Harold. The Mid-Atlantic Engineers: A History of the Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1774-1974. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1978?].
Notes: The Baltimore harbor and shipping and Maryland's internal improvements are covered.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Van Horn, Martin K., and Robert L. Williams. Green Spring Accommodation: 130 Years of Railway History in the Green Spring Valley, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1832-1962. Polo, IL: Transportation Trails, 1996.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Acton, Lucy. "Maryland's Longest-active Woman Trainer Is All Keyed up with Two Stakes Winners." Maryland Horse 61 (April/May 1995): 46-48.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Olson, Karen Faith. When a Woman Has a Working Life: The Transformation of Gender Relations in a Steelmaking Community. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1995.
Notes: Captures the social world of steelworkers' wives in Dundalk, Maryland, through sixty interviews. A planned industrial community from the 1880s, steel dominated life in Dundalk. Male work culture, swing shifts, and high wages served company needs and kept women out of the paid labor force. A decline in steelmaking forced women to "get a working life," which has altered role expectations and gender relations in that community. Class bias and racial divisions are also factors in this transformation.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Russo, Elise Boyce. "Elizabeth Solter jumps into arena of Olympic hopefuls." Maryland Horse 61 (February/March 1995): 16-20.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Sarvella, Patricia, ed. Baltimore County Women. Towson, MD: Baltimore County Chapter, American Association of University Women, 1976.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Torchia, Robert Wilson. "Eliza Ridgely and the Ideal of American Womanhood." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Winter 1995): 404-23.
Notes: Argues that Thomas Sully's painting <em>Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely</em> was a propaganda piece to counter the British stereotype of American women as "being unsophisticated, ignorant, and devoid of social graces" (406). This portrait of fifteen-year-old Ridgely shows grace, poise, feminity, and other traits (including instrumental music) associated with British of true womanhood.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County