The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Sargent, Marguerite Ridgely. "Sunshine." Legacy 19 (Summer 1999): 1, 4.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Sims, Diana J. "A Place Apart: Life on West All Saints Street." Frederick Magazine (February 1991): 28-32, 49.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Smith, E. B. "Some Memories of Old Fairhaven." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (April 1992): 7, 9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Smith, Mary Beth. "Let Us Entertain You." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): [111].
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Smith, Mary Beth. "What Makes Gaithersburg Great." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): [106-107].
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Sugarloaf Regional Trails (Project). Inventory of Historical Sites in Western Montgomery and Frederick Counties, Maryland. Dickerson, MD: Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1975.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Frederick County, Montgomery County
Sween, Jane C. "An Englishwoman Visits Montgomery County in 1830." Montgomery County Story 40 (August 1997): 441-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Sween, Jane C. Montgomery County: Two Centuries of Change. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications, Inc., 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Sween, Jane C., and William Offutt. Montgomery County: Centuries of Change. Sun Valley, CA: American Historical Press, 1999.
Notes: An illustrated history, using a variety of genre, arranged largely chronologically. Included is a chapter of brief histories of the County's towns. The chapter "Chronicles of Leadership" provides one to three pages histories of the businesses and organizations who sponsored the book's publication. Excellent bibliography and a four page time line of the county's history.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Tucker, Barclay Earl. "History of Forest Hill." Harford Historical Bulletin 29 (Summer 1986): 53-83.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
"Upton Historic District: A Walk Through Black History in Baltimore." Keeping Time: The Newsletter of the Baltimore City Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation 2 (Winter 1990): 1, 3-5.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Religion, Baltimore City
Varner, Lynne K. "The Forgotten Town of Oriole." Maryland 23 (Summer 1991): 20-25.
Notes: Oriole was once a prosperous Methodist black community whose inhabitants were farmers and watermen. The few remaining residents of Oriole are hoping to revitalize the community through the preservation of St. James Church, once a cornerstone of the community.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Walston, Mark. "Seneca Stone: Building Block of the Nation's Capital." Maryland 18 (Winter 1985): 39-42.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Weeks, Christopher. "Bouncing Along the Post Road: Eighteenth Century Harford County as Seen by Travelers." Harford Historical Bulletin 57 (Summer 1993): 74-127.
Notes: Annotated excerpts from ten contemporary descriptions of traveling along the post road. The authors include such well known Colonial figures as Dr. Alexander Hamilton, Charles Willson Peale, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Harford County, Montgomery County
Lampl, Elizabeth Jo, and Kimberly Prothro Williams. Chevy Chase: A Home Suburb for the Nation's Capital. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1998.
Notes: A handsomely illustrated history of the development of this exceptionally successful DC suburban community from an architectural and planning perspective. Its appendix includes short histories of the area's architects and builders.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Bunting, Elaine, and Patricia D'Amario. Counties of Central Maryland. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1998.
Notes: A series designed for young people.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County
Hench, John E., Rob Gibbs, and Jayne S. Hench. "Some Observations on Hydrilla and Wintering Waterfowl in Montgomery County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 38 (January/June 1994): 3-9.
Bode, Carl. "Mencken and Semitism." Menckeniana 120 (Winter 1991): 1-7.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Breslaw, Elaine G. Dr. Alexander Hamilton and the Enlightenment in Maryland. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1973.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Crews, Judith Mary. Virginity and Maryland: The American Founding Myth in the Sot-weed Factors of Ebenezer Cooke and John Barth. Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Fecher, Charles A. "Mencken and the Archbishop." Menckeniana 93 (Spring 1985): 2-6.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Twentieth Century
Fitzsimons, Mrs. Neal. "'Uncle Tom' in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 18 (May 1975): 1-14.
Notes: This article explores the little-known connection between Harriet Beecher Stowe's <em>Uncle Tom's Cabin</em> and the story of Josiah Henson, a slave from Montgomery County. Henson's autobiography apparently inspired the author of what became one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century. Fitzsimons provides excerpts from Henson's narrative and surveys the sites in Montgomery County associated with his life.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Hart, D. G. "A Connoisseur of 'Rabble-Rousing,' 'Human Folly,' and 'Theological Pathology:' H. L. Mencken on American Presbyterians." American Presbyterians 66 (Fall 1988): 195-204.
Hohner, Robert A. "'The Woes of a Holy Man: Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and H. L. Mencken." South Atlantic Quarterly 85 (Summer 1986): 228-38.
Holley, Val. "Vexing Utah: Mencken, DeVoto, and the Mormons." Menckeniana 125 (Spring 1993): 1-10.