The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman, comps. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1997: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 93 (Summer 1998): 246-58.
Categories: General, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman, comps. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1998: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 94 (Summer 1999): 244-57.
Categories: General, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Cassell, Frank A. Merchant Congressman in the Young Republic: Samuel Smith of Maryland. Madison: The University Press of Wisconsin, 1971.
Notes: Samuel Smith epitomizes the history of Baltimore City during the early republic. An officer during the Revolution and the commander of the forces that defended the city against the British attack in 1813, a member of an important merchant family whose economic connections helped him establish a political power base that stretched almost five decades, and sometimes brought him to the brink of economic ruin, he was a major political figure from George Washington's presidency through Andrew Jackson's. His career also reveals the elusiveness of political labels. As a Republican leader in the 1790s, he opposed the policies of the Federalists and supported those of Thomas Jefferson, but he and his brother Robert Smith had a falling out with James Madison, and by the 1830s he was courted by the more democratic Jacksonians who refused to anoint his kin as party leaders.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Notes: A comprehensive examination of the political background, military operations, and diplomatic closure of "Mr. Madison's War." It may have been forgotten in other areas, but for Maryland the War of 1812 was all too real. The Royal Navy roamed the Chesapeake with impunity, occupied Tangier Island, burned Frenchtown, attacked St. Michaels and Havre de Grace, sacked the nation's capitol after defeating the militia at Bladensburg, before meeting defeat after a combined sea-land attack on Baltimore City, which was immortalized in Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner." There is also a chapter on the infamous Baltimore riot of 1812.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, War of 1812
Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman, eds. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century Essays on Anglo-American Society & Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: A collection of papers presented at a scholarly conference in 1974 covering all aspects of Chesapeake life and politics in the 17th century. Many of these scholars - especially Lois Green Carr, Lorena S. Walsh, Darrett and Anita Rutman, David W. Jordan, and Russell R. Menard - would become the core of a new "Chesapeake School," whose hallmark was to breathe life and insight into mute statistical records. Their influence into our understanding of this period cannot be overstated.
Categories: General, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Bard, Harry. Maryland: State and Government, Its New Dynamics. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1974.
Notes: Divided into three sections - the first describing Maryland's people, history and geography, the second its government, and the third governmental services available to its citizens - this book provides a comprehensive description of the structure of Maryland government and its relationship to the people in the mid-1970s. Its major limitation is that some of the information may not be current because it was written almost three decades ago.
Categories: General, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century
Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced Baltimore during the War of 1812. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, Published for Mystic Seaport, Inc., 1977.
Notes: The British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 was motivated by a desire to punish the city for being a nest of republicans and privateers. This book traces in admirable detail the history of privateering - from the ships, outfitting, captains and crews, investors, their successes and failures, through the distribution of the prize money. While the pirates on the Spanish main may have been the dregs of the sea, Baltimore's privateers were underwritten by some of its leading mercantile and political leaders. The book includes useful appendices identifying the privateers, investors and proceeds.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Notes: Brugger's comprehensive social and cultural history of Maryland is the fruit of the decision by the Maryland Historical Society to commission a new state history in observance of Maryland's 350th anniversary. Brugger takes as his central theme that Maryland's distinction historically was that it represented a middle way-between North and State, slave and free, traditional and modern, rural/suburban/urban. The book considers the interaction of major political, social, and cultural developments. It includes a valuable bibliographical essay; a chronology of events; sets of maps, tables, and figures; and extensive illustrations.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Calcott, George. Maryland & America, 1940-1980. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Notes: Calcott examines recent Maryland history in its relation to major national trends over the period from World War II to 1980. Arguing that the state consists of four cultural areas-Baltimore City, Eastern and Southern Maryland, Western Maryland, and Suburban Maryland-Calcott considers the interaction of political, social, and cultural developments, both in terms of overall trends as well as in terms of their expression in the state's diverse regions. Major topics include post-World War II population growth and suburbanization, Cold War tensions, the Civil Rights era, political liberalism and the growth of the welfare functions of the state, educational and environmental developments, and the changing role of government.
Categories: General, African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Keisman, Jennifer. "The Platers and Sotterley." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Winter 1995): 81-91.
Categories: General, African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Maryland Commission for Women. Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. Annapolis: The Commission, 1992.
Categories: General, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Maryland State Department of Education. Maryland Commission for Women. Album of Maryland Women, Vision and Action: A Women's History Display Kit. Baltimore: The Department, 1991.
Categories: General, Women, Twentieth Century
Sarvella, Patricia, ed. Who's Who of Maryland Women 1930-1976. N.p.: Maryland Division American Association of University Women, 1976.
Categories: General, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Twentieth Century
Bode, Carl. Maryland: A Bicentennial History. States and the Nation Series, edited by James Morton Smith. New York: Norton; Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1978.
Eaton, H. B. "Bladensburg." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research [Great Britain] 55 (1977): 8-14.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Prince George's County, Other, War of 1812
George, Christopher T. Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2000.
Categories: Maritime, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region, War of 1812
Hollifield, William. "The Millennium and the Census 1900-2000: The Allure of the Numbers." History Trails 33 and 34 (Millennium Issue): 2-11.
Categories: General, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Other
Meyer, Eugene L. Maryland Lost and Found...Again. Baltimore: Woodholme House, 2000.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Other, Chesapeake Region
Williams, Glenn F. "The Bladensburg Races." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 12 (no. 1, 1999): 58-65.
Categories: Military, Other, War of 1812
Winegar, Deane. Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Chesapeake Bay. Marietta, GA: Longstreet Press, Inc., 2000.