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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Carter, Edward C., II, Editor in Chief, and Thomas E. Jeffrey, Microfiche Editor. The Guide and Index to the Microfiche Edition of the Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Clifton, NJ: Published for the Maryland Historical Society by James T. White and Co., 1976.

Chivers, Robin, and Edward Terry, comps. Directory of Computerized Bibliographic Systems in the Greater Baltimore Area. Baltimore: Welch Medical Library, 1975.
Notes: Technical.

"CMM on the Move." Bugeye Times 17 (Winter 1992/1993): 1, 3.
Notes: Calvert Marine Museum.

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.

Glaser, John D. Collecting Fossils in Maryland, Educational Series, no. 4. Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1979.

Hires, Will E. "Profile of the R. E, Gibson Library and Information Center and Mr. Robert S. Gresehover, Director." The Cutting Edge 49 (December 2000): 9, 11.

Hunter, Wilbur H., Jr. "The Tribulations of A Museum Director in the 1820s." Maryland Historical Magazine 49 (Spring 1954): 214-222.
Notes: Rubens Peale is considered to be the first professional museum director in the country. For two years 1822-1824, and off site for an additional seven years, he administered the Peale Museum in Baltimore. This discussion, mostly of the years in Baltimore, generally unsuccessful, is based on a series of letters between Rubens and his brother Franklin.

Klemer, Jane. "Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum." Maryland 23 (Spring 1991): 50-53.

Lamberg, Lynne. "Preserving the Life of a Lab." Johns Hopkins Magazine 49 (November 1997): 34-35.
Notes: A discussion of the specialized collection of the Archives of The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

LeGath, Judy. "Museum Receives Collection of Tools Used to Produce Kirk's Famous 'Baltimore Silver' On Display in New Kirk-Stieff Exhibit." Nuts and Bolts 13 (Summer 1995): [4].

McCall, Nancy, and Lisa A. Mix. "Scholarly Returns: Patterns of Research in a Medical Archives." Archivaria 41 (Spring 1996): 158-87.

"Marine Life Revisited: An Update on the CMM Estuarium." Bugeye Times 18 (Summer 1993): 1, 3.

Pelsinsky, Amy. "Tales from the Cryptology Museum." Columbia Magazine (Summer 1995): 28-30.

Shapin, Alice Rindler. "Beneath the Surface at the National Aquarium." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 26-31.

Waesche, James F. "Maryland's Museums: The Peale Museum." Maryland Magazine (Winter 1985): 32-7.
Notes: A discussion of the building boom Baltimore's City Life Museums experienced during the 1990s. The Peale, and all the City Life Museums, closed about ten years later. Includes a history of the Peale, in both its manifestations.

Skotnes, A. "The Communist Party, Anti-Racism, and the Freedom Movement: Baltimore, 1930-1934." Science and Society 60 (Summer 1996): 164-94.

Ackerman, Eric G. "Economic Means Index: A Measure of Social Status in the Chesapeake, 1690-1815." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 26-36.

Gibb, James G., and Julia A. King. "Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 109-131.
Notes: Using archaeological records and spatial analysis from three Southern Maryland tobacco plantation sites, the authors provide an ethnographic look at life for seventeenth-century Maryland colonists in terms of gender and class roles. The article provides a brief overview of the economics of the Chesapeake region, the structure of living arrangements, and the gendered nature of tasks. The evidence suggests how gendered and class-based activities contributed to both household production and accrued wealth. The authors conclude that comparisons between the three sites provide the basis for understanding how household wealth was a direct corollary of the ability to secure a large work force and to develop a high degree of specialization.

Leone, Mark P., and Paul A. Shackel. "The Georgian Order in Annapolis." Maryland Archeology 26 (March & September 1990): 69-84.

Leone, Mark P. "The Georgian Order as the Order of Merchant Capitalism in Annapolis, Maryland. Edited by Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr." In The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1988, 235-61.

Shackel, Paul A. "Modern Discipline: Its Historical Context in the Colonial Chesapeake." Historical Archaeology 26 (no. 3, 1992): 73-84.
Notes: Shackel analyzes dining ware listed in probate records for Annapolis in the eighteenth century to suggest that during times of economic uncertainty the elite purchased products to differentiate itself from the lower classes, while during stable times there was less distinction. The article provides a brief socioeconomic history of the city at the time before presenting an analysis of the development of meaning systems, values, and etiquette attached to dining items. The author makes the case that this kind of examination provides a basis for understanding "the symbolic uses of material culture."

Sorenson, James Delmer. Folk to National Culture in Nineteenth-Century Montgomery County: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence from a Maryland Piedmont Plantation. Ph.D. diss., American University, 1987.

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