The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Plummer, Norman H. Lambert Wickes: Pirate or Patriot. St. Michaels, MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1991.
Power, Garrett. "The Carpenter and the Crocodile." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 4-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century
Price, Jacob M. Perry of London-A Family and a Firm on the Seaborne Frontier, 1615-1753. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Reese, Timothy J. "One Man's Battlefield: George Alfred Townsend and the War Correspondents Memorial Arch." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Fall 1997): 356-85.
Notes: Visitors to the Gathland State Park on South Mountain will find the only monument dedicated to Civil War newsmen. This monument was the brainchild of George Alfred Townsend, a Maryland journalist and author whose nickname was "Gath." This account of his campaign to honor his fellow war correspondents includes an overview of his life and career.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Ridout, Orlando, IV. "My Grandfather, The Bentztown Bard." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (July 1991): 3-4, 9-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Robbins, Karen. "Ambition Rewarded: James McHenry's Entry into Maryland Politics." Maryland Historical Magazine 93 (Summer 1993): 190-214.
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth, ed. Mencken and Sara, A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H. L. Mencken and Sara Haardt. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Rollo, Vera F. Henry Harford: Last Proprietor of Maryland. N.p.: Harford County Committee of the Maryland Bicentennial Commission, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Harford County
Rollo, Vera F. "Henry Harford--One of Maryland History's 'Lost Ones' for 200 Years." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 180-98.
Rose, Lou. "Dr. Thomas Bond of Calvert County. . . ." Calvert Historian 1 (April 1985): 25-29; 2 (April 1986): 22-34.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County
Rosenswaike, Ira. "Simon M. Levy: West Point Graduate." American Jewish Historical Quarterly 61 (1971): 69-73.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Military, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Russo, Jean B. "A Model Planter: Edward Lloyd of Maryland, 1770-1796." William and Mary Quarterly 49 (January 1992): 62-88.
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Robert J. Brugger." Maryland Humanities (Spring/Summer 1995): 36-37.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Robert I. Cottom, Jr." Maryland Humanities (November/December 1994): 28-29.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Savage, R. Blair. "Robinson Savage: Early Pioneer." Glades Star 6 (March 1989): 270-71.
Sellers, Charles Coleman. Charles Willson Peale. New York: Scribner, 1969.
Notes: Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), artist, naturalist, museologist, began his career in Maryland as the son of a clerk transported to the colonies for forgery. Sent to England for artistic training by Maryland patrons, Peale became a leading artist and portrait painter of the new republic. Peale was also noteworthy for his excavation of a mastodon's skeleton and his establishment of museums displaying art and natural history collections. His sons and other relatives formed a dynasty of artists who were influential in Maryland and beyond. Readers seeking in-depth biographical information on the Peales should consult the <em>Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and his Family</em>.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Shapiro, Karl Jay. Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Shelton, Emma. William Winchester, 1711-1790. Westminster, MD: Historical Society of Carroll County, 1993.
Shugg, Wallace. "The Baron and the Milliner: Lord Baltimore's Rape Trial as a Mirror of Class Tensions in Mid-Georgian London." Maryland Historical Magazine 83 (Winter 1988): 310-30.
Sikora, Barbara. "The Apple Doesn't Fall Very Far from the Tree." Passport to the Past 5 (Spring 1994): 6-7, 15.
Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Small, Clara Louise. Three Generations of the Ennis Family: A Demographic Study on the Lower Eastern Shore. Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Sparrow, Margaret W. "The Sparrows of Sparrow's Point." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Winter 1990): 395-403.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Starin, Mary M. "The Reverend Doctor John Gordon, 1717-1790." Maryland Historical Magazine 75 (September 1980): 167-97.
Steelman, Robert Bevis. "Learner Blackman (1781-1815)." Methodist History 5 (1967): 3-17.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century