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"Benjamin Stoddert, First Secretary of the Navy." Friends of Preservation Newsletter 16 (Fall 1998): 2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Bennett, Joyce. "Edwin Warfield Beitzel: Poet, Southern Agrarian, Renaissance Man." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Spring 1999): 345-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Bentley, Judith. Harriet Tubman. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century
Betterly, Richard. "Seize Mr. Lincoln." Civil War Times Illustrated 25 (February 1987): 14-21.
Annotation / Notes: 1861 Baltimore plot.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Beynon, Jo. "John Louis Wellington: Artist and Banker." Journal of the Alleghenies 34 (1998): 37-39.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts
Birch, Alison Wyrley. "The Lady Was a General." Maryland 12 (Autumn 1979): 7-11.
Annotation / Notes: Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1893) was the daughter of a governor of Maryland whose own political career was an exception to the secondary role of most 19th century women in national affairs. In the 1850s and 1860s, Carroll wrote political tracts and advised political leaders in the Know Nothing and Republican parties. She also contributed to Union military strategy during the Civil War, corresponding with Abraham Lincoln and others in Washington.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Politics and Law, Women, Nineteenth Century
Bjerke, Gene. "Messenger of Victory." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (October 1989): 83-85.
Annotation / Notes: Tench Tilghman.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Eighteenth Century
Blakey, Arch Frederick. General John H. Winder, C.S.A. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Somerset County, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Bloch, Michael, ed. Wallis and Edward: Letters, 1931-1937. New York: Summit Books, 1986.
Annotation / Notes: Wallis Warfield Simpson, born and raised in Baltimore.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Bloch, Michael, ed. The Body in the Barn: The Controversy Over the Death of John Wilkes Booth Compiled from Articles Presented in "The Surratt Courier." Clinton, MD: Surratt Society, 1993.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century
Booth, John W. "Right or Wrong, God Judge Me": Writings of John Wilkes Booth. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century
Bourne, Michael. "Walter T. Pippin-Designer, Contractor and Builder." Old Kent 10 (Summer 1993): [3-9].
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Bowen, Harold S. "Henry Fleete." Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine 40 (1990): 4633-42.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century
Bowers, Q. David., Sr. Louis E. Eliasberg: King of Coins. Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1996.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century
Bowes, David B. "So Proudly He Hailed." Mid-Atlantic Country 17 (July/August 1996): 34-37, 118.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century
Bowling, Garth, Jr. "Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher." The Record 63 (April 1994): 1-2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Twentieth Century
Bowling, Garth, Jr. "The Forgotten Cavalier: Joseph Lancaster Brent." The Record 43 (May 1988): 1-2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century
Bowling, Garth, Jr. "Wallace Bowling-An Oration." The Record 67 (April 1995): 2-3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century
Brandt, Ed. Rafael Palmeiro: At Home with the Baltimore Orioles. Childs, MD: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 1998.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Brennan, John C. "John Wilkes Booth's Enigmatic Brother Joseph." Maryland Historical Magazine 78 (Spring 1983): 22-34.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century
Breslaw, Elaine G. "A Perilous Climb to Social Eminence: Dr. Alexander Hamilton and His Creditors." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 433-55.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century
Bretholz, Leo. Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe. Baltimore: Woodholme House Publishers, 1999.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Twentieth Century
Brigham, Dave. "Born on the Edge." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 1, 4.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Briscoe, Mabel. "America's First Fossil Hunter." Calvert Historian 9 (Fall 1994): 70-78.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Broome, John P. Memoirs. Edited by Ailene W. Hutchins. Broomes Island, MD: Published by the author, 1977.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Brown, Geoff. "William Donald Schaefer." Baltimore 92 (December 1999): 38-39.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Bruns, Roger, and William Fraley. "Old Gunny': Abolitionist in a Slave City." Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (1973): 369-382.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Bryan, Jennifer A. "A Letter from George Washington." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 204.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century
Bryan, Jennifer, and Barbara Weeks. "'Our Washington Is No More'!" Maryland Historical Magazine 94 (Winter 1999): 440-47.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century
Buckler, Mary Agnes. "Goodbye to the Good Old Days." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Summer 1998): 295-97.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Bull, J. Edmund. "John Love: The Forgotten Patriot." Harford Historical Bulletin 11 (Spring/Summer 1977): 42, 44.
Annotation / Notes: Biographical Sketch of Love (1730-1793).
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Harford County
Burwell, Gale. "Henry N. Hotchkiss." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Summer 1995): 33-36.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Butterfield, L. H. "Tending a Dragon-killer: Notes for the Biographer of Mrs. John Quincy Adams." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 118 (1974): 165-178.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Nineteenth Century
Byron, Gilbert. Cove Dweller. Trappe, MD: Unicorn Book Shop, 1983.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century
Byron, Gilbert. Done Crabbin': Noah Leaves the River. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century
Byron, Gilbert. Gilbert Byron's Chesapeake Seasons: A Cove Journal. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1987.
Annotation / Notes: Poet and chronicler Gilbert Byron's columns were a popular feature in several Eastern Shore newspapers. This collection of observations and reminiscences culled from his newspaper writings are both biographical and lyrical in quality. Byron captures both an appreciation for a nostalgic past and an awareness of the social and economic changes occurring on his beloved shore.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
Calderhead, William L. "Thomas Carney: Unsung Soldier of the American Revolution." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 319-26.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Eighteenth Century
Cale, Clyde C., Jr. "General Kellye's Prize Horse 'Philippi'." Glades Star 9 (March 1999): 22-25.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County
Calhoun, Stephen D. The Marylanders: Without Shelter or a Crumb. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County, Civil War, Southern Maryland
Calhoun, Stephen D. "Col. John Henry Sothoron 1807-1893." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Summer 1992): 113-28.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Callcott, George H., ed. Forty Years as a College President: Memoirs of Wilson Elkins. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, 1981.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Twentieth Century
Callcott, Margaret Law. "The Calvert-Custis Connection." Riversdale Letter 14 (Spring 1997): 3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Prince George's County
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
Cameron, Roldah N. "Levi Oldham Cameron: Cecil County Builder & Politician." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 67 (April 1994): 4-5.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Canby, Tom. "Jack Bentley: No Ordinary Ball Player." Legacy 17 (Summer 1997): 1, 7.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Canby, Tom. "Captain Charles E. Hoye." Glades Star 6 (March 1991): 490.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Carmichael, Edmund C. The Pacas of Maryland and Their "Relatives." [Belhaven, NC]: E. C. Paca, 1994.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
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
Carr, Lois Green, and Edward C. Papenfuse. "Philip Calvert (1626-1682): The Man in the Lead Coffin?" Maryland Humanities (August/September 1993): 8-9.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century
Carroll, Kenneth L. "The Berry Brothers of Talbot County, Maryland: Early Antislavery Leaders." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 1-9.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore

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