The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Anderson, George M. "Growth, Civil War, and Change: The Montgomery County Agricultural Society, 1850-1876." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Winter 1991): 396-406.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Anderson, George M. "The Montgomery County Agricultural Society: The Beginning Years, 1846-1850." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Winter 1986): 305-15.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Pittman, LaVern. "Walnut Level: A Model Farm in Allegany County." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 3-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County
Wiser, Vivian, and Wayne D. Rasmussen. "Background for Plenty: A National Center for Agricultural Research." Maryland Historical Magazine 61 (1966): 283-304.
Adler, Larry. It Ain't Necessarily So. New York: Grove Press, 1987.
Notes: Autobiography of a Baltimore-born musician.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Dean, David M. "Meshach Browning: Bear Hunter of Allegany County, 1781-1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 73-83.
Notes: Meshach Browning was the author of an autobiography, <em>Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter</em>, that might more properly be seen as a tall tale wrapped around the framework of an actual life. Browning (1751-1859) inhabited the frontier in the westernmost part of Maryland that later became Garrett County. He claimed to have killed 400 bears in his career. For those attracted to the stories of Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyon, Meshach Browning's life offers entertaining reading.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Delaplaine, Edward S. John Phillip Sousa and the National Anthem. Frederick, MD: Great Southern Press, 1983.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Edwards, Margaret A. "I Once Did See Joe Wheeler Plain." Journal of Library History 6 (1971): 291-302.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Gordon, Martin K. "Patrick Magruder: Citizen, Congressman, Librarian of Congress." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 32 (1975): 153-171.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Hosmer, Charles B., Jr. "Verne E. Chatelain and the Development of the Branch of History of the National Park Service." Public Historian 16 (Winter 1994): 24-38.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Kravetz, Sallie. Ethel Ennis, the Reluctant Jazz Star: An Illustrated Biography. Baltimore: Gateway Press/Hughes Enterprises, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Kuethe, F. William, Jr. "Some Background on the Donors of the Kuethe Library." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (April 1992): 8-9.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
The McKaig Journal, a Confederate Family of Cumberland. Cumberland, MD: Allegheny County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Maturi, Richard J. Francis X. Bushman: A Biography and Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998.
Naumann, Timothy. "Enoch Pratt and His Gift to Baltimore." Maryland 19 (Winter 1986): 40-44.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Otter, William. History of My Own Times or, the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sen. Comprising a Series of Events, and Musical Incidents Altogether Original. Emmitsburg, MD: n.p., 1835; reprint. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Notes: William Otter (1787-1856) has left an entertaining autobiography of his life as a plasterer and practical jokester. Originally published in Emmitsburg in 1835, Otter's <em>History</em> offers an unusual glimpse into social history from an artisan's perspective. Whether Otter's humorous adventures and anecdotes are all true is debatable. His story does, however, suggest a continuation of the irreverent Maryland personality seen in the works of Ebenezer Cooke, Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Meshack Browning.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Parker, Franklin. George Peabody: A Biography. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971; revised edition, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century
Price, Walter W. "The Bashford Amphitheater's Name." Glades Star 6 (June 1990): 412-14.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 28-29.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Schaaf, Elizabeth. "George Peabody: His Life and Legacy, 1795-1869." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Fall 1995): 268-85.
Notes: George Peabody's legacy to Baltimore transcends the music conservatory and magnificent library that bear his name. His gifts influenced other wealthy friends whose philanthropy help establish some of the great educational and cultural institutions that grace the city: the Johns Hopkins University, the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the Walters Art Gallery. This article surveys the life of a man admired and respected on both sides of the Atlantic.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Urbas, Anton. "Tony Urbas Has a Career Change." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 37-48.
Anderson-Free, Corine F. The Baltimore Colored Orchestra and the City Colored Chorus. Ph.D. diss., University of Alabama, 1994.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Music and Theater
Clarke, Nina Honemond. History of the Nineteenth-Century Black Churches in Maryland and Washington, D.C. New York: Vantage Press, 1983.
Categories: African American, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Nineteenth Century
David, Jonathan. "The Sermon and the Shout: A History of the Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware." Southern Folklore Quarterly 51, no. 3 (1994): 241-63.
Categories: African American, Music and Theater, Religion, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Dudley, David. "James Hubert 'Eubie' Blake." Baltimore 92 (March 1999): 38-39.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City