The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Anderson, George M. "Growth, Civil War, and Change: The Montgomery County Agricultural Society, 1850-1876." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Winter 1991): 396-406.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Anderson, George M. "The Montgomery County Agricultural Society: The Beginning Years, 1846-1850." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Winter 1986): 305-15.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Wiser, Vivian, and Wayne D. Rasmussen. "Background for Plenty: A National Center for Agricultural Research." Maryland Historical Magazine 61 (1966): 283-304.
Andrews, F. Ethel. Miss Ethel Remembers. Shady Side, MD: Shady Side Rural Heritage Society, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Birch, Alison Wyrley. "The Lady Was a General." Maryland 12 (Autumn 1979): 7-11.
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
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.
Cordts, Jeanne M. "Douglas Love and the Molly Maguires." Journal of the Alleghenies 32 (1996): 97-105.
Coryell, Janet L. Neither Heroine Nor Fool: Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1986.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Politics and Law, Women, Nineteenth Century, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Dash, Joan. Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Notes: Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) was a social activist whose career began in Baltimore with the founding of a center and night school for recent immigrants from Russia similar to the settlement houses pioneered by Jane Addams. She later founded Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, and became a leader in the Zionist movement.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Dubansky, Mindell. Guess Who Died?: Memories of Baltimore with Recipes. Rosendale, NY: Women's Studio Workshop, 1999.
Earle, W. H. "The Phantom Amendment and the Duchess of Baltimore." American History Illustrated 22 (November 1987): 32-39.
Notes: Jerome Bonaparte's American wife.
Edwards, Margaret A. "I Once Did See Joe Wheeler Plain." Journal of Library History 6 (1971): 291-302.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Frasseto, Claude B. Betsy Bonaparte, ou la Belle de Baltimore. [France]: J.C. Lattes, 1988.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century
George, Joseph. "'A True Childe of Sorrow': Two Letters of Mary E. Surratt." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 402-405.
Gordon, Martin K. "Patrick Magruder: Citizen, Congressman, Librarian of Congress." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 32 (1975): 153-171.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Helmes, Winifred G., ed. Notable Maryland Women. Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1977.
Notes: Short profiles of 100 Maryland women who achieved prominence in various fields. Although the focus is on 20th century figures, Maryland women from earlier eras are also featured. A good source for information on many lesser-known Maryland women whose stories have not yet been told. Readers interested in notable women from the early decades of the 20th century may wish to consult Margie H. Luckett's <em>Maryland Women</em> published in three volumes between 1931 and 1942.
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Hosmer, Charles B., Jr. "Verne E. Chatelain and the Development of the Branch of History of the National Park Service." Public Historian 16 (Winter 1994): 24-38.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Kravetz, Sallie. Ethel Ennis, the Reluctant Jazz Star: An Illustrated Biography. Baltimore: Gateway Press/Hughes Enterprises, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Kuethe, F. William, Jr. "Some Background on the Donors of the Kuethe Library." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (April 1992): 8-9.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Levin, Alexandra Lee. Henrietta Szold: Baltimorean. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Martin, Ralph G. The Woman He Loved: The Story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Naumann, Timothy. "Enoch Pratt and His Gift to Baltimore." Maryland 19 (Winter 1986): 40-44.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Parker, Franklin. George Peabody: A Biography. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971; revised edition, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 28-29.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century