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.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
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.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
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.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Wiser, Vivian. "Maryland in the Early Land-Grant College Movement." Agricultural History 36 (1962): 194-199.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Education, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Aberbach, Moses. Soloman Baroway: Farmer, Writer, Zionist and Early Baltimore Social Worker. Baltimore: Baltimore Jewish Historical Society, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Adams, Sandra Ludwig. "The Legacy of Elisha Tyson, Venerable Citizen." Maryland Magazine 14 (Autumn 1981): 22-25.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Ambrose, Stephen E., and Richard H. Immerman. Milton S. Eisenhower: Educational Statesman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Burwell, Gale. "Henry N. Hotchkiss." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Summer 1995): 33-36.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Callcott, George H., ed. Forty Years as a College President: Memoirs of Wilson Elkins. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, 1981.
Carroll, Kenneth L. "Thomas Thurston, Renegade Maryland Quaker." Maryland Historical Magazine 62 (1967): 170-192.
Clawson, Frank D. "Thomas Kennedy--Hagerstown's 'Thomas Jefferson.'" Cracker Barrel 17 (July 1987): 11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Washington County
Dash, Joan. Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Notes: Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) was a social activist whose career began in Baltimore with the founding of a center and night school for recent immigrants from Russia similar to the settlement houses pioneered by Jane Addams. She later founded Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, and became a leader in the Zionist movement.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
De Pasquale, Sue. "Merchant with a Plan and a Vision." Johns Hopkins Magazine 41 (June 1989): 36-37.
Notes: Johns Hopkins.
Fletcher, Charlotte. "John McDowell, Federalist: President of St. John's College." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 242-51.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Futrell, Roger H. "Zachariah Riney: Lincoln's First Schoolmaster." Lincoln Herald 74 (1972): 136-142.
Grauer, Nell. "Milton Stover Eisenhower, 1899-1985." Johns Hopkins Magazine 36 (June 1985): 48-53.
Haenftling, Mildred Dauphin. "Pastor [Carl F.] Dauphin: Zion Lutheran 1937-1969." Glades Star 5 (March 1979): 134-38; (June 1979): 148-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Hardenbergh, Jane Slaughter. "E. Y. Mullins: Man of Vision." American Baptist Quarterly 11 (September 1992): 246-58.
Holmes, David L. "William Holland Wilmer: A Newly Discovered Memoir." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Summer 1986): 160-164.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Hoopes, Roy. "Mason Locke Weems, the Publishing Preacher." Maryland 19 (Winter 1986): 36-38.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Jacob, Kathryn A. "Mr. Johns Hopkins." Johns Hopkins Magazine 25 (January 1974): 13-17.
Johnston, Sona K. "Friendship and Patronage: A Nineteenth-Century Tradition." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 10-12.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Kellman, Naomi. "Dr. Samson Benderly." Generations 4 (December 1983): 25-31.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Ethnic History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century