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
Johnson, Robert C., ed. "Virginia in 1632." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957): 458-466.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth 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
Abell, William S. Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806-1888), Founder of the Sun of Baltimore. Chevy Chase, MD: Published by the author, 1989.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth 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.
Bennett, Joyce. "Edwin Warfield Beitzel: Poet, Southern Agrarian, Renaissance Man." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Spring 1999): 345-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Breslaw, Elaine G. "A Perilous Climb to Social Eminence: Dr. Alexander Hamilton and His Creditors." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 433-55.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century
Callcott, George H., ed. Forty Years as a College President: Memoirs of Wilson Elkins. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, 1981.
Charbeneau, Jim. Shouts and Whispers: Stories from the Southern Chesapeake Bay. White Stone, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Cramton, Willa G. "Selleck Osborn: a Republican Editor in Wilmington, Delaware, 1816-1822." Delaware History 12 (1967): 198-217.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Craven, Avery. "Some Historians I Have Known." Maryland Historian 1 (1970): 1-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Crowder, Ralph Leroy. John Edward Bruce and the Value of Knowing the Past: Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora, 1856-1924. Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 1994.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
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.
Gardner, R. H. Those Years: Recollections of a Baltimore Newspaperman. Baltimore: Sunspot Books, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Grauer, Nell. "Milton Stover Eisenhower, 1899-1985." Johns Hopkins Magazine 36 (June 1985): 48-53.
Gustaitis, Joseph. "Mason Locke Weems: 'I Cannot Tell a Lie.'" American History Illustrated 22 (February 1988): 40-41.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Hammett, David, Sr. "Samuel Dashiell Hammett." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 76.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Hoopes, Roy. Cain. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Hoopes, Roy. "John Pendleton Kennedy." Maryland 22 (Spring 1990): 50-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century