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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Varga, Nicholas. "The Establishment of Howard County, 1850-1855, Part V." Howard County Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter 31 (April 1988): 4.

Varga, Nicholas. "The Establishment of Howard County, 1850-1855, [Concluded] Part VI." Howard County Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter 31 (June 1988): 3.

Voris, Helen. Elkridge: Where It All Began. First edition. Elkridge, MD: N.p., 2000.

Bunting, Elaine, and Patricia D'Amario. Counties of Central Maryland. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1998.
Notes: A series designed for young people.

Speller, John L. "The Charles Strohl Organ and Historic Old Salem, Catonsville, Maryland." The Tracker 33, no. 4 (Richmond: the Organ Historical Society, 1990): 19-22.

Adams, Cheryl, and Art Emerson. Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives: A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Washington: Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress, 1998.
Notes: Institutional level descriptions for nineteen Maryland libraries and archives holding significant religious collections. A tremendous level of detail is given. Subject headings are assigned to each institution. This guide is also available online at <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/">https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/</a>.

Brown, John Gregory. "Out of Africa." Columbia Magazine [Summer 1990]: 38-9.
Notes: Maryland Museum of African Art.

Chastain, Maggie, and Lee L. Smith. Index to Martinet's Map of Howard County, Maryland 1860. First edition. Ellicott City, MD: Howard County Historical Society, 1998.

Doyle, Francis R. Columbia, Maryland, The Planned Community Between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore Designed to Give A New Town to that Area: A Bibliography. Monticello, IL: Council of Planning Librarians, 1975.

Edwards, Doris W., and Mary K. Mannix. Selected Genealogical Resources in the Howard County Historical Society Library. Columbia, MD: Howard County Genealogical Society, 1997.

Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.

A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Howard County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.

Hires, Will E. "Profile of the R. E, Gibson Library and Information Center and Mr. Robert S. Gresehover, Director." The Cutting Edge 49 (December 2000): 9, 11.

Mannix, Mary K. "The Automation of the Frances Louise Day Postcard Collection of the Howard County Historical Society." Popular Culture in Libraries 3 (1995): 187-197.

Mannix, Mary. "Preliminary Survey of the Cartographic Records of Howard County, Maryland." The Portolan: Washington Map Society 36 (Summer 1996): 9-20.

"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.

Arnold, Joseph L. The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1971.
Notes: Considering the variety of Maryland's various planned communities - Columbia, Bowie, Greenbelt and Roland Park - it is important to appreciate how each was distinctive. At its conception, Greenbelt, along with several other communities planned and built by Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration, represented the social experimentation associated with New Deal. According to the author: "the greenbelt towns were built to demonstrate that urban expansion by the construction of complete new towns would provide superior safety, convenience, beauty, and a deep sense of community spirit - all at a new low cost. These new suburban towns would therefore provide a superior environment for families heretofore condemned to live in urban slums. New towns would stop urban decay and end economic segregation of the suburbs." (p. xii) What was radical was the comprehensive scope of the enterprise, the creation of co-operative businesses to serve the community, and the fact that the federal government maintained ownership. This study ends with the implementation of Public Law 65 (1949) which transferred ownership of most of the houses to a private co-operative.

Brooks, Richard. "Social Planning in Columbia." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 37 (1971): 373-378.
Notes: An evaluation of the planned community of Columbia at an early point in its development, the article contends that the transition from vision to implementation involves a series of social dilemmas. These included the shift from company town to "thriving democratic polity," the potential conflict between the vision of a new form of urban community versus the prevailing attraction of the suburban ideal, and questions about the appropriate balance between residential and commercial functions in a presumably "post-industrial" society. Brooks wonders whether the failure by the planner and many early residents to face up to the challenges of these dilemmas may represent a "heroic failure" for Columbia.

McIntosh, J. Rieman. A History of the Elkridge Fox Hunting Club, The Elkridge Hounds, the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club 1878-1978. Monkton, MD: Published by the author, 1978.

"Thomas Viaduct Monument a Disgrace." The Sentinel 18 (Spring 1996): 28.

Travers, Edwin Xavier. "Brief History of Howard County Post Offices." Howard County Historical Society Newsletter 32 (June 1989): 4.

Smith, Ora Pumphrey. "An Old Anne Arundel County Love Story." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (October 1991): 8-9.

Walters, R. Eugenia. "Some Reminiscences of Miss R. Eugenia Walters." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 21 (May 1994): [6-10].

Moss, Paulina C., and Levirn Hill, eds. Seeking Freedom: A History of the Underground Railroad in Howard County, Maryland. Columbia, MD: Howard County Center of African American Culture, Inc., 2002.

Hall, Bill. Sykesville. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2001.

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