The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Jackl, W. E. "Station Number Eleven of the Enoch Pratt Free Library." Journal of Library History 7 (1972): 141-156.
Notes: East Baltimore's Station Number Eleven, which began in two rooms in a settlement house was amazingly successful in servicing its Jewish immigrant population with very mere resources. This article includes some discussion in the early 20th century library controversy of whether or not libraries should collection non-English works. Also stressed is the role the public library played in the Americanization of the immigrant.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Kenny, Hamill. Placenames of Maryland. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1985.
Notes: Kenny's works supplies the name derivations, along with brief historical backgrounds, for a wide variety of Maryland locations.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Key, Betty McKeever, comp. Oral History in Maryland: A Directory. Edited by Larry E. Sullivan. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981.
Notes: Although it is very outdated, this directory should serve be the starting point for anyone attempting to locate oral history collections relevant to Maryland. Collections surveyed were not only in institutional hands (schools, libraries, and historical agencies) but also belonged to governmental agencies and private individuals. Included are DC and PA collections of potential interest.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
McCauley, Lois B. Maryland Historical Prints, 1752 to 1889: A Selection from the Robert G. Merrick Collection Maryland Historical Society and Other Maryland Collections. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1975.
Notes: McCauley's is the major reference point for anyone researching Maryland prints. It is well illustrated, with descriptive text. This is as close as one comes to a union catalog for Maryland prints. This work should also be of interest to anyone seeking pre-photographic images of Maryland sites, as well as to map historians.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Mannix, Mary. "Preliminary Survey of the Cartographic Records of Howard County, Maryland." The Portolan: Washington Map Society 36 (Summer 1996): 9-20.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Howard County
"Mapping Maryland: The Willard Hackerman Collection." MHS/News (July-September 1998): 4.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Maryland State Planning Commission. Gazetteer of Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1941.
Notes: Perhaps the most thorough of all the geographic dictionaries, if you trying to identify a place in Maryland you will most likely find it in this Gazetteer.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Pyatt, Timothy, and Lisa Perry. Maps of Maryland: A Guide to the Map Collection of the Marylandia & Rare Books Department, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland College Park. College Park, MD: Maryland & Rare Books Dept., 1993.
Categories: Education, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Schell, Edwin. History of Northeastern Jurisdictional Historical Concerns. N.p.: Northeastern Jurisdictional Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church, 1976.
Scroth, Raymond A. "The Excommunication of Reverend John Baptist Causse: an Unpublished Sermon by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 81 (1970): 42-56.
Starin, Mary Elizabeth. "The Callister Papers, Maryland Room, Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 15 (January 1974): 3-5.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
The State Gazetteer and Merchants and Farmers Directory for Maryland and District of Columbia. Baltimore, MD: Sadler, Drysdale, & Purnell, 1871.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century
Steiner, Bruce C. "Descriptions of Maryland." Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science 22 (1904).
Categories: General, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works
Worcester County Library. Guide to the William D. Pitts Collection. Snow Hill, MD: Worcester County Library, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
"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.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
'Anywhere So Long As There Be Freedom:' Charles Carroll of Carrollton, His Family & His Maryland. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975.
Notes: Includes essays on his family by Sally D. Mason, his political career by Ronald Hoffman, his economic activities by Edward C. Papenfuse, his homes by William Voss Elder III, and his religion by Joseph T. Durkin and Annabelle M. Melville.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Religion
Berkin, Carol R. "Jonathan Boucher: The Loyalist as Rebel." West Georgia College Studies in the Social Studies 15 (June 1976): 65-78.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Bosworth, Timothy W. "Anti-Catholicism as a Political Tool in Mid-Eighteenth Century Maryland." Catholic Historical Review 61 (October 1975): 539-63.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Edsall, Thomas B. "Money and Morality in Maryland." Society 11 (1974): 74-81.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Religion
Eitches, Edward. "Maryland's 'Jew Bill.'" American Jewish Historical Quarterly 60 (1971): 258-279.
Notes: The long and arduous struggle to pass the bill that would "extend to the sect of people professing the Jewish religion, the same rights and privileges enjoyed by Christians." Within the historical and religious context of Maryland's test oaths, Federal-Republican power struggles, and urban-agrarian conflicts to liberalize parts of the state constitution, a specific version of the "Jew Bill" is finally passed in 1826, by its foremost champion, Thomas Kennedy.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Everstine, Carl N. "Maryland's Toleration Act: An Appraisal." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Summer 1984): 99-116.
Notes: Considered from afar, Maryland's Toleration Act (1649) reinforces the nation's long tradition of religious toleration and moderation; or does it? After examining the wording of the act, and the history of toleration prior to 1649, the author points out that the act was repealed in 1654, and, while the repeal was itself repealed soon after, toleration would continue in force only until 1696, when the Church of England was established as the sole religious establishment in the Province. Caught in the rivalry between the resurgent Puritans and the Catholics at mid-century, religious toleration was on shaky grounds from the beginning. With the ascendancy of the Anglican Church in 1696, things grew worse for Catholics, and more legislation was adopted in the ensuing years restricting their ability to practice their religion publicly. Religious toleration for Christians was re-introduced in the state Constitution of 1776 and expanded to include Jews fifty years later.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Formwalt, Lee W. "A Conversation Between Two Rivers: A Debate on the Location of the U.S. Capital in Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Fall 1976): 310-21.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law
Gribbin, William. "A Reply of John Adams on Episcopacy and the American Revolution." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 44 (1975): 277-283.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century
Hanley, Thomas O'Brien, S.J. "The Catholic and Anglican Gentry in Maryland Politics." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 38 (1969): 143-151.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion
Haw, James A. "The Patronage Follies: Bennet Allen, John Norton Jordan, and the Fall of Horatio Sharpe." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Summer 1976): 134-50.