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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Wycherly, H. Alan. "H. L. Mencken vs. The Eastern Shore: December, 1931." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970): 381-390.

Bryan, Jennifer A. "The Tilghman Papers." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Fall 1993): 297-99.

Fusonie, Alan, and William Hauser. "Climate History at the National Agricultural Library." Agricultural History 63 (Spring 1989): 36-50.

Fusonie, Alan E. "The History of the National Agricultural Library." Agricultural History 62 (Spring 1988): 189-207.

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.

Gibb, James G. "Using Calvert County's Agricultural Censuses: 1850-1880." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 9-17.
Notes: A useful introduction to an underutlized resource. This article would be worthwhile reading for anyone interested in agricultural censuses whether or not their area of study was Calvert County.

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

Maryland Statistical Abstract. Annapolis: Department of Economic Development, 1967-.
Notes: This source provides data on nearly every aspect of Maryland and the live's of its citizens.

"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Sotterley Plantation." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 27.

Mohrhardt, Foster E. "The Library of the United States Department of Agriculture." The Library Quarterly 27 (April 1957): 61-82.

Noll, Linda. "The Steppingstone Museum: A Step Back in Time." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 145-47.

Wiser, P. Vivian. "Select Bibliography on History of Agriculture in Maryland." National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, Associates NAL Today 1 (October 1976): 55-85.

"Worcester County Library, Snow Hill: Opening/Dedication of William D. Pitts Collection , Maryland Land Surveys, 1677-1982, 23 October 1987." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 28 (1987): 123-124.

Berryman, Jack W. "John S. Skinner's American Farmer: Breeding and Racing the Maryland 'Blood Horse,' 1819-1829." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Summer 1981): 159-73.

Berryman, Jack W. "John Stuart Skinner and the American Farmer, 1819-1829: An Early Proponent of Rural Sports." Associates NAL Today, new series, 1 (October 1976): 11-32.

Bishko, Lucretia Ramsey. "Lafayette and the Maryland Agricultural Society:1824-1832." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 45-67.

Boccaccio, Mary. "Maryland at the St. Louis World's Fair." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 347-354.
Notes: Boccaccio profiles the Maryland state exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, organized to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase one hundred years earlier. Drawing upon papers in the library of the University of Maryland College Park, she chronicles the efforts of William Amoss, who assembled the agricultural and horticultural products for a display which celebrated the state's western, southern, and central regions.

Lewis, Sara. "Sailing at Ocean City." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 150-53.

Menard, Russell R. "Population, Economy, and Society in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 71- 92.
Notes: Menard examines some of the complex social and economic patterns underlying the rapid population growth of Maryland during the seventeenth century despite strong in-migration, high mortality, a shortage of females, and later marriage which often produced unstable family life. Tobacco exports rose dramatically, but the economy eventually suffered from over-dependence on a single crop. Though the colony was established with aristocratic goals, immigrants and their offspring initially created a social and economic pattern in which small planters predominated. However, by the century's end a new gentry class clearly had emerged in an order characterized by greater dependence on slave labor, a decline of indentured servitude, and heightened degrees of inequality.

Walsh, Lorena S. "Feeding Eighteenth-Century Tidewater Town Folk, or, Whence the Beef?" Agricultural History 73 (Summer 1999): 267-80.

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