The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Howard, James H. "The Nanticoke-Delaware Skeleton Dance." American Indian Quarterly 2 (Spring 1975): 1-13.
Categories: Music and Theater, Native American
Bache, Ellyn. "Miss Mary and the Book Wagon." Maryland 21 (Winter 1988): 32-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Bowers, Deborah. "On the Road Again: The Bookmobile in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 28-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Live Wire Staff. "BSM: 25 Years and Still Going." Live Wire 22 (April-June 1991): 1, 3-7.
Notes: Baltimore Streetcar Museum.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
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.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
Perlman, Nancy. "BMI Research Center Officially Opens." Nuts and Bolts 10 (Summer 1992): [5].
Notes: This detailed, single page, article provides an excellent introduction to the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Industry's research center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Way, Peter. Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Notes: This is a comprehensive examination of the digging of North American canals and the ensuing conflicts between labor and management. Working conditions and the organization of work changed drastically between 1780 and 1860. Much of the labor was provided by Irish workers, who were considered to be more expendable than slaves in the Middle Atlantic states. While other studies focus on their propensity to riot and fight amongst themselves in the 1830s, Way argues that this was due less to ethnic rivalries than to economic conditions and management's shabby treatment of labor. The records of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company provide much of the information upon which this study is based.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Bender, Thomas. "Law, Economy, and Social Values in Jacksonian America: A Maryland Case Study." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Winter 1976): 484-97.
Notes: Bender examines the legal and economic assumptions underlying the conflict between the Chesapeake Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1820s and 1830s to illustrate his argument about the triumph of "modernization" in the period. The conflict pitted the interests of the canal company to protect rights granted to it by its prior charter for westward development against the interests of the railroad in developing a competitive alternative. While the Maryland Court of Appeals applied conservative assumptions in ruling for the former, supporting the principle of monopoly, the state legislature, believing that competition advanced the interests of the state, applied "modernization" assumptions to force a compromise which permitted the railroad to proceed.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Clark, Ella E., and Thomas F. Hahn, eds. Life on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 1859. York, PA: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Conway, M. Margaret, Jay A. Stevens, and Robert G. Smith. "The Relation Between Media Use and Children's Civic Awareness." Journalism Quarterly 52 (1975): 531-538.
Categories: Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Present at the 'Creation': The Chesapeake World that Greeted the Maryland Colonists." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 7-20.
Notes: Fausz examines relations between Europeans (especially the English of Maryland and Virginia) and Native Americans of the Chesapeake region in the decade immediately preceding the settlement of the Maryland colony at St. Mary's in 1634. He argues that the interaction between Englishmen and Native Americans provided the basis for tobacco cultivation and the beaver fur trade. Both paved the way for successful adaption of the early English settlers to new American conditions.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman, eds. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Notes: Essays on aspects of the social history of Baltimore provide case studies of social issues and neighborhood dynamics. Paired chapters first consider the lives of ordinary B&O Railroad workers involved in the railroad strike of 1877, then examine the powerful family of B&O magnate John Work Garrett. Chapters on work consider the area's mill villages, the garment industry, and union activity. Studies of neighborhoods address the history of Fells Point in terms of race and ethnicity and racial change in west Baltimore.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"The Great Game." Johns Hopkins Magazine 7 (April 1956): 7-9, 20-21.
Notes: The article discusses the Native American origins of lacrosse in a game called "baggattaway," tracing its adaption in the nineteenth century as a popular sport among Canadians and its spread to the United States. First played in Baltimore in the 1870s, it became a club and intercollegiate sport in the area. In 1928 lacrosse arrived on the world scene as a sport at the Amsterdam Olympics.
Categories: Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Harte, Thomas J. "Social Origins of the Brandywine Population." Phylon 24 (1963): 369-378.
Notes: Harte seeks to establish the eighteenth-century origins of a distinctive mixed race "Brandywine" population in Charles County, though he fails to explain this social identity for the general reader. He points to Maryland laws against miscegenation and cross-racial sexual relationships as indirect evidence that both had occurred in the colony and cites Charles County records for violations of those laws. The article provides less direct support for his contention that Native American ancestry may also have been involved in the mixed race unions. Harte concludes that isolated family groupings in the eighteenth century served as the basis of the identifiable Brandywine population in the county in the nineteenth century.
Categories: African American, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Mills, Eric. Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Rozbicki, Michael J. "Transplanted Ethos--Indians and the Cultural Identity of English Colonists in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Amerikastudien 28 (No. 4, 1983): 405-428.
Categories: Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
White, Roger. "Round Bay Resort and 'Mount Misery'." Anne Arundel County History Notes 19 (January 1988): 3-4.
Notes: The article reprints an account by L.A. Burck of an 1888 visit to the Anne Arundel County resort of Round Bay on the Severn River. Burck describes his trip from Baltimore's Camden Station on the B&A Railroad to the waterside park and its nearby promontory, Mount Misery, a Civil War-era lookout where Union soldiers watched for blockade runners.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
"30th Anniversary of B-52 Crash." Glades Star 7 (March 1994): 338.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
"The 1900 'State Road'." Glades Star 7 (December 1994): 485-87.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Acton, Lucy. "The Museum of the Iron Horse." Baltimore 67 (May 1974): 38ff.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore City
Adams, Charles S. Roadside Markers in Maryland. Shepherdstown, WV: Published by the author, 1997.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Chesapeake Region
"After 100 Years." Glades Star 7 (December 1995): 660.
Notes: Casselman Bridge.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Garrett County
Akehurst, S. Virginia, and Eva E. Akehurst. "The Yeoho Road." History Trails 8, no. 1 (1974): 1-3.
Allen, Bob. "U.S. Route 40 in Maryland." Maryland 24 (Winter 1991): 38-43.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Chesapeake Region