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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Rosalie, Mary. "Music in Early American Catholic Schools." Catholic Educational Review 60 (1962): 577-587.

Saladini, Robert. American Catholic Church Music: The Baltimore Cathedral. M.A. thesis, Catholic University, 1984.

Shifflet, Anne Louise. Church Music and Musical Life in Frederick, Maryland 1745-1845. M.A. thesis, American University, 1971.

Speller, John L. "The Charles Strohl Organ and Historic Old Salem, Catonsville, Maryland." The Tracker 33, no. 4 (Richmond: the Organ Historical Society, 1990): 19-22.

Wolf, Edward C. "Two Divergent Traditions of German-American Hymnody in Maryland circa 1800." American Music (Fall 1985): 299-312.

Adams, Cheryl, and Art Emerson. Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives: A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Washington: Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress, 1998.
Notes: Institutional level descriptions for nineteen Maryland libraries and archives holding significant religious collections. A tremendous level of detail is given. Subject headings are assigned to each institution. This guide is also available online at <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/">https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/</a>.

Alvarez, Rafael. "It Was Like a Time Capsule." In Hometown Boy: The Hoodle Patrol and Other Curiosities of Baltimore. Baltimore: Baltimore Sun, 1999, 178-179.
Notes: Baltimore Hebrew University Library.

Brunk, Gerald R., and James O. Lehman. A Guide to Select Revolutionary War Records Pertaining to Mennonites and Other Pacifist Groups in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1775-1800. N.p., 1974.

Cadbury, Henry J. "More First Publishers of Truth." Journal of the Friends' Historical Society [Great Britain] 52 (1970): 159-167.

Dixon, Michael L. "Postcards: A Link to Cecil's Past." Bulletin of The Historical Society of Cecil County 77/78 (Autumn/Winter 1998): 7-8.

Fishman, Bernard P. "Back to East Baltimore. An Introduction to the New Jewish Heritage Center." Generations (Fall 1986): 10-11.

Fishman, Bernard P. "Making the Jewish Museum of Maryland." Generations (Fall 1998): 26-34.
Notes: An involved discussion of the 1990s construction of the museum's new museum, complete with problems and foibles, written by the man who directed the project.

A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Cecil County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.

Jackl, W. E. "Station Number Eleven of the Enoch Pratt Free Library." Journal of Library History 7 (1972): 141-156.
Notes: East Baltimore's Station Number Eleven, which began in two rooms in a settlement house was amazingly successful in servicing its Jewish immigrant population with very mere resources. This article includes some discussion in the early 20th century library controversy of whether or not libraries should collection non-English works. Also stressed is the role the public library played in the Americanization of the immigrant.

Johnson, Ruth Ann. "Cecil County Libraries: Guardians of Minds and Morals." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 59 (September 1991): 6-7.

Key, Betty McKeever, comp. Oral History in Maryland: A Directory. Edited by Larry E. Sullivan. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981.
Notes: Although it is very outdated, this directory should serve be the starting point for anyone attempting to locate oral history collections relevant to Maryland. Collections surveyed were not only in institutional hands (schools, libraries, and historical agencies) but also belonged to governmental agencies and private individuals. Included are DC and PA collections of potential interest.

Manning, John, and Stanley White. "Upper Bay Museum." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 61 (April 1992): 5-6.

Radoff, Morris L. "The Maryland Records in the Revolutionary War." American Archivist 37 (April 1974): 277-85.
Notes: Governmental records are always at risk during times of war. Maryland's records were in an even more precarious position during the Revolutionary War, the Maryland State House was under construction. Radoff discusses the movement of Maryland's records in attempts to keep them safe from harm. Also discussed in the theft of Cecil County land records by British troops.

Schell, Edwin. History of Northeastern Jurisdictional Historical Concerns. N.p.: Northeastern Jurisdictional Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church, 1976.

Scroth, Raymond A. "The Excommunication of Reverend John Baptist Causse: an Unpublished Sermon by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 81 (1970): 42-56.

Starin, Mary Elizabeth. "The Callister Papers, Maryland Room, Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 15 (January 1974): 3-5.

Taylor, Morton F. "The Sheriff John F. De Witt Military Museum Opens." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 62 (September 1992): 7.

'Anywhere So Long As There Be Freedom:' Charles Carroll of Carrollton, His Family & His Maryland. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975.
Notes: Includes essays on his family by Sally D. Mason, his political career by Ronald Hoffman, his economic activities by Edward C. Papenfuse, his homes by William Voss Elder III, and his religion by Joseph T. Durkin and Annabelle M. Melville.

Berkin, Carol R. "Jonathan Boucher: The Loyalist as Rebel." West Georgia College Studies in the Social Studies 15 (June 1976): 65-78.

Bosworth, Timothy W. "Anti-Catholicism as a Political Tool in Mid-Eighteenth Century Maryland." Catholic Historical Review 61 (October 1975): 539-63.

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