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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1925.
Notes: Mentions Maryland only regarding farming in 1840 and peach orchards, but is useful since so many Pennsylvania Germans settled in Frederick County.

Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.

Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1933.
Notes: From barley to wool, Gray's great work is unsurpassed in its detail about farming from Maryland's founding to the Civil War.

Handwerker, Tom. "Something is Fishy Down on the Farm." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 13 (Harvest 1991): 18-19.

Pursell, Carroll W., Jr. "The Administration of Science in the Department of Agriculture, 1933-1940." Agricultural History 42 (1968): 231-240.
Notes: Henry A. Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of Agriculture, championed scientific research because he himself was scientist a hybrid corn breeder. Using emergency relief funds from the National Recovery Administration, Wallace, in 1934, transformed the small experiment station in Beltsville into a great national research center. The Bankhead-Jones Act then funded the basic research agenda.

Chase, Henry V. "The Scott-Key Connection." Maryland Medical Journal 45 (October 1996): 859-60.

Daniel, W. Harrison. Jimmie Foxx: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996.

"Diary of Dr. Joseph L. McWilliams 1868-1875." Chronicles of St. Mary's 25 (January 1977): 2-8; (October 1977): 315-22.

Faust, Page T. "Dr. Walter Hanson Stone Briscoe." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Winter 1998): 339-42.

Garland, Eric. "Puckish Dr. Osler." Johns Hopkins Magazine 36 (June 1985): 35-38.

Gorman, Bob. Double X: The Story of Jimmie Foxx--Baseball's Forgotten Slugger. New York: [Published by the author?], 1990.

Guyther, J. Roy. "The Best of Two Worlds." Chronicles of St. Mary's 42 (Fall 1994): 349-51.

Hoffland, Dixie. "Dr. Samuel Mudd." Maryland 20 (Spring 1988): 48-52.

Keys, Thomas E. "Bookmen in Biology and Medicine I Have Known." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 30 (1975): 326-348.

Kurtz, Michael J. John Gottlieb Morris: Man of God, Man of Science. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1997.

Kurtz, Michael J. "Being a Renaissance Man in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore: John Gottlieb Morris." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 156-69.

Miller, Joseph M. "Vignette of Medical History: the Trimbles of Baltimore." Maryland Medical Journal 44 (January 1995): 47-49.

Miller, Joseph M. "James McHenry, M.D. of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Towne." Maryland Medical Journal 41 (May 1992): 413-15.

Millikin, Mark R. Jimmie Foxx: The Pride of Sudlersville. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Notes: The story of Babe Ruth's Baltimore background is well known. Fewer remember that Hall of Famer and Ruth rival, Jimmy Foxx, hailed from Maryland's Eastern Shore. A star with the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, Foxx hit 58 home runs in 1932 and was that year's American League Most Valuable Player.

Olch, Peter D. "William S. Halsted's New York Period, 1874-1886." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 40 (1966): 495-510.

Padgett, James A., ed. "Rumsey Documents." Maryland Historical Magazine 32 (1937): 10-28, 136-55, 271-85.

Porter, Frank W. "John Widgeon: Naturalist, Curator and Philosopher." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Winter 1984): 325-331.

Reveal, James L. "Hugh Jones (1671-1702)--Calvert County Naturalist." Calvert Historian 1 (October 1984): 1-11.

Rogers, Ellen. "James Harris Rogers, Scientist." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 13 (July-August 1985): 31-34.

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