The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secret: Hampton National Historic Site." Maryland Humanities (Summer 1998): 43.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Papenfuse, Edward C., Susan A. Collins, and Christopher N. Allan. A Guide to the Maryland Hall of Records: Local Judicial and Administrative Records in Microform. Vol. 1. Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1978.
Notes: Records of Allegany County through Baltimore County and City.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Allegany County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Chesapeake Region
"Revolutionary War Museums and Sites of Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Summer 2001): 25.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Science and Technology, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Frederick County, Harford County, Washington County
Thompson, Lawrence S. "Foreign Travellers in Maryland, 1900-1950." Maryland Historical Magazine 48 (1953): 337-43.
Notes: An annotated bibliography of the commentary written by 31 foreign visitors to Maryland. Overall, the emphasis is on Baltimore and surrounding area.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Chesapeake Region
Thornton, Frank R. "Microfilm in Baltimore County." Journal of Micrographics 11 (March 1978): 283-85.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Arnold, Joseph L. "Suburban Growth and Municipal Annexation in Baltimore, 1745-1918." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (June 1978): 109-28.
Notes: The battles between Baltimore City and Baltimore County over the suburban territory spanning a century and a half. This fight was for a larger tax base and the promise of better services providing an important historical perspective on current city-suburban problems.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Barton, Donald Scott. Divided Houses: The Civil War Party System in the Border States. Ph.D. diss., Texas A&M University, 1991.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Catton, Bruce. "A Southern Artist on the Civil War." American Heritage 9 (1958): 117-120.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Hollifield, William. "Sparrows Point Police Department." History Trails 21 (Summer 1987): 16.
Categories: Politics and Law, Baltimore County
McGrain, John W. "The Presidents in Baltimore County." History Trails 21 (Summer 1987): 13-15.
Notes: First of three-part article.
Categories: Politics and Law, Baltimore County
McGrain, John W. "The Presidents in Baltimore County." History Trails 22 (Autumn 1987). 1-3.
Notes: Part 2 of three-part article.
Categories: Politics and Law, Baltimore County
Towers, Frank, ed. "Military Waif: A Sidelight on the Baltimore Riot of 19 April 1861." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Winter 1994): 427-46.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Henig, Gerald S. Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from Maryland. New York: Twayne Press, 1973.
Notes: A sympathetic biography of a leading Maryland politician who died in 1866 at the early age of forty-eight. A gifted orator and political writer, and a passionate opponent of the Democratic Party, Davis initially associated with the Whig Party, which was popular in the north but less so in the south, just as it was in the throes of disintegration. He then aligned with the newly formed Know Nothing Party, whose primary appeal was nativism and anti-Catholicism, and was elected to Congress in 1855. He was a leading opponent of the Buchanan administration and an early supporter of Abraham Lincoln. Active in trying to stem the tide of secession and to keep Maryland in the Union, he hoped for a Cabinet position, but Montgomery Blair won the appointment. At odds with his constituents, he was defeated for re-election and his political career appeared to be ended. He became gradually disenchanted with Lincoln's leadership, and, after re-election to Congress as a Unconditional Unionist, he led the effort to reassert Congressional leadership over reconstruction policies. When the President pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis bill, he issued a highly publicized protest manifesto and actively opposed Lincoln's renomination. During the 1864 campaign, however, he decided that the Democratic candidate, McClellan, was a greater threat, so he campaigned for the Republican ticket. Davis also played a decisive role in the writing and ratification of the Maryland constitution of 1864. Once again his radical position eroded his constituent base and he was not renominated for his Congressional seat.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Agle, Anna Bradford, and Sidney Hovey Wanzer, eds. "Dearest Braddie: Love and War in Maryland, 1860-61, Part I." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Spring 1993): 73-88.
Notes: Letters from Edward Spencer to Anne Catherine Bradford Harrison, written during their courtship in late 1860 and 1861, provide evidence of tensions related to Unionist vs. Secessionist sentiment in Maryland in the critical months leading up to the Civil War. Edward initially hopes that the Union can be preserved, but increasingly expresses alarm at actions by the new Republican administration to assure Maryland's loyalty, by coercion if necessary. Tender expressions of affection alternate with extended passages of intense political commentary. The letters and other Spencer papers are from the collection of the Milton Eisenhower Library of Johns Hopkins University.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Anson, Melanie. Olmsted's Sudbrook: The Making of a Community. Baltimore, MD: Sudbrook Park, Inc., 1997.
Notes: Anson chronicles the history of Baltimore County's Sudbrook Park, a significant example of a residential community planned by noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted's "General Plan for Sudbrook" in 1889 epitomized the suburban ideal which he championed, with its separation from the city, yet link for commuting via the nearby Western Maryland Railway line; spacious lots and set backs for cottage-style houses; shared common spaces and amenities; and romantic, naturalistic setting. Anson traces the evolution of the development of Sudbrook, as well as the nature of community social life from the 1890s to the present.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Bangs, Herbert P., Jr., and Stuart Mahler. "Users of Local Parks." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 36 (1970): 330-334.
Notes: The authors seek to evaluate the effectiveness of a 1963 Baltimore County law requiring developers to set aside space in new residential sections for small local parks. The study examines parks created in three sample rowhouse developments, based upon interviews conducted with users of the three spaces. The article concludes that the program has been successful in terms of usage, though more by children than teens and young adults, and that proximity to residence determines frequency of use.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Brooks, Neale A., and Eric G. Rockel. A History of Baltimore County. Towson, MD: Friends of the Towson Library, 1979.
Notes: A history of Baltimore County inspired by the United States bicentennial, this comprehensive volume traces the evolution of the county which once represented the sole political jurisdiction in the region. Early settlement led to subdivision to establish other counties, and the growth of Baltimore City produced eventual separation of legal and governmental functions between county and city in the 1850s. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries growth and expansion of the city further eroded the county's space in the annexations of 1888 and 1918. The book concludes with consideration of the suburban boom of the post-World War II period and its impact on the county's politics. Extensive source notes make this a valuable resource for students of Baltimore County social history.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Care of the Indigent of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1776-1958. [Maryland?]: N.p., 1986.
Dalleo, Peter T., and J. Vincent Watchorn, III. "Baltimore, the 'Babe,' and the Bethlehem Steel League, 1918." Maryland Historical Magazine 93 (Spring 1998): 88-106.
Notes: During World War I industrial baseball leagues sought to recruit major league players who faced the prospect that they must either "work or fight." A Steel League team was created at Sparrows Point by Bethlehem Steel. The industrial leagues, sometimes derisively called "shelter leagues," managed to compete with established major and minor league teams, leading the latter to initiate innovations like twilight and Sunday afternoon baseball games, both introduced by Baltimore Orioles management. At a point in 1918 it appeared that Baltimore hero and Boston Red Sox star Babe Ruth might jump to the industrial leagues. At war's end, the leagues lost their luster, but the authors assert that for a brief period the Sparrow's Point team had "caught the town's fancy."
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Diggs, Louis S. Holding On To Their Heritage. Catonsville, MD: privately printed, 1996.
Notes: Baltimore County African-American communities: Bond Avenue, Reisterstown; Piney Grove, Boring.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
Diggs, Louis S. In Our Own Voices: A Folk History in Legacy. Catonsville, MD: Uptown Press, 1998.
Notes: Baltimore County African-American communities: Chattolanee, Cowdensville, Oblate Sisters of Providence.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
Diggs, Louis S. It All Started on Winters Lane: A History of the Black Community in Catonsville, Maryland. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 1995.
Notes: A compilation on the history of the historic African American community of Winters Lane in Catonsville, this volume includes a rich collection of family history and documents related to the history of black churches, civic organizations, businesses, and social groups. It also provides several extensive oral histories with elders in the community. Like many African American communities in Baltimore County, Winters Lane had its roots in the pre-Civil War era as a settlement of free blacks who worked on area farms and in the growing village, and it has persisted into the modern period of suburbanization. Louis Diggs in this and other volumes on the county's historic African American communities includes an extensive set of photos and other documents previously unpublished on local black family and community life.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Goodwin, Louise Bland. "Chattolanee Hotel and Springs." History Trails 8 (no. 1, 1974): 4.
Grimes, Michael A. "Developing 'Frederick Terrace'." History Trails 26 (Spring-Summer 1992): 9-16.