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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Adler, Georgia. "How Distinctly I Now Recollect What Then Passed: The Journals of William E. Bartlett." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 2-3.

Beynon, Jo. "John Louis Wellington: Artist and Banker." Journal of the Alleghenies 34 (1998): 37-39.

Carroll, Kenneth L. "The Berry Brothers of Talbot County, Maryland: Early Antislavery Leaders." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 1-9.

Cheesman, George. "Frederick County's Forgotten Glassmaker." Maryland 9 (Summer 1977): 27-31.
Notes: John Frederick Amelung.

Clague, Cristin D. "The Calverts: Migration in History." Calvert Historian 13 (Fall 1998): 19-24.

Cone, Edward T. "The Miss Etta Cones, the Steins, and M'sieu Matisse. A Memoir." American Scholar 42 (1973): 441-460.
Notes: The Cone sisters, Etta and Claribel, were responsible for assembling the unsurpassed Cone Collection of works by Matisse and other modern artists at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Patrons of modern art before it was fashionable, the Cones were closely associated with their friend from her Baltimore days, Gertrude Stein. Art lovers will find the story of their collecting to be an important background for the enjoyment of the collection.

Dukes, Kristen W. "Wise and Wonderful." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 174-77.
Notes: Photographer Laird Wise.

Foster, James W., and Susan R. Falk. George Calvert: The Early Years. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983.

Helm, Ruth. 'For Credit, Honor, and Profit': Three Generations of the Peale Family in America. Ph.D. diss., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1991.

Hoffman, Ronald. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500 - 1782. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press/Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, 2000.
Notes: Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Maryland's Charles Carroll of Carrollton was conspicuously different from most of his colleagues. Fabulously wealthy and Roman Catholic, Carroll was very aware of his family's origins as traditional leaders in their former Irish homeland. Ronald Hoffman skillfully recounts the story of this family's successful struggle to maintain its status in the face of official religious intolerance. In surveying the path that led from Ely O'Carroll in Ireland to the shores of the Chesapeake, Hoffman helps explain why a very conservative family would embrace the cause of revolution.

Humphries, Lance Lee. Robert Gilmore, Jr. (1774-1848): Baltimore Collector and American Art Patron. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1998.

Jensen, Ann. "Charles Wilson Peale: Painter and Patriot, Friend of the Founders." Annapolitan 6 (January/February 1992): 26-28, 102-3, 107.

Johnston, Sona K. "Friendship and Patronage: A Nineteenth-Century Tradition." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 10-12.

Kalkman, Julia von H. "'Mountevina': The Home of John Frederick Amelung." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc., Newsletter (November 1991) 3-5.

Kernan, M. "William and Henry Walters and their Fever for the Fine Arts." Smithsonian 20 (August 1989): 102-8, 110, 112-13.

Krech, Shepard, III. Praise the Bridge That Carries You Over: The Life of Joseph L. Sutton. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co. (cloth); Cambridge, MD: Chenkman Publishing Co. (paper), 1981.
Notes: Biography of a black resident of Miles River Neck in Talbot County. Based on extensive oral history interviews, this personal narrative by a long-time Talbot County resident offers a unique look at the life of African Americans on the Eastern Shore. Joseph Sutton (1885-1980) led a long and eventful life, and his reminiscences are rich in personal detail. In addition to his own experiences, Sutton's words are a valuable source for understanding the personal impact of racism on African Americans.

Levy, Lester S. Jacob Epstein. Baltimore: Maran Press, 1978.
Notes: Biography of Epstein (1864-1945).

Lloyd, Phoebe. "Raphaelle Peale's Anne-Arundel Still Life: A Local Treasure Lost and Found." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Spring 1992): 1-9.

Low, Theodore L. The Perils of a Tour Leader. Baltimore: Published by the author, 1976.

Martel, Nancy Byrens. "Charles Willson Peale." Maryland 16 (Winter 1983): 8-11.

"Meet Talbot's Delegates." Historical Society of Talbot County Newsletter (Fall 1987): 1-2.

Miller, Lillian B., ed. The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale. Vol.3, The Belfield Farm Years, 1810-1820. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peale: A 250th Anniversary Celebration. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.

Page, Jean Jepson. "James McNeill Whistler, Baltimorean, and 'The White Girl': A Speculative Essay." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 10-38.

Preston, Dickson J. Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Notes: There are a number of excellent biographies of Frederick Douglass including works by Eric Foner, William McFeeley and Benjamin Quarles. For the student of Maryland history, Preston's short but well-researched book focuses on the first twenty years of Douglass' life spent in Talbot County and Baltimore City. His experiences as a slave in Maryland shaped his subsequent career and thus are critical to understanding one of the greatest spokesmen for human rights.

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