The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Stiverson, Gregory A., and Jacobsen, Phebe R. William Paca: A Biography. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976.
Notes: Visitors to Annapolis mostly associate William Paca (1740-1799) with a handsome house and gardens restored to their original glory. Paca hailed from Harford County, owned extensive property on the Eastern Shore, but moved to Annapolis and emerged as a patriotic leader during the revolutionary era. Elected Governor in 1782, Paca headed a state government that witnessed the final victory over the British. This short biography provides a good introduction to the man and his era.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Harford County
Svirbely, William J., and Dorothy M. Svirbely. Captain James Campbell, a Chronicle. Walkersville, MD: Published by the authors, 1989.
Sword, Gerald J. "The Mystery Remains." Glades Star 6 (June 1986): 30-35.
Notes: Abjiah Herrington in Garrett County history.
Taylor, Jack. "John Friend's Trek Revisited." Glades Star 5 (December 1983): 547-549.
"The Thomas Cresap Story." Glades Star 7 (September 1995): 614-17.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Garrett County
"Tom Fossit: The Man Who Claimed That He Shot Braddock." Glades Star 7 (June 1995): 564-66.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Eighteenth Century, Garrett County
Urbas, Anton J. "Daniel Cresap, Dan's Mountain and Rock." Journal of the Alleghenies 27 (1991): 63-66.
Vivian, James F., and Jean H. Vivian. "'A Jurisdiction Competent to the Occasion': A Benjamin Rumsey Letter, June 1776." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 144-155.
Warren, Mary G. "Charles Carroll of Carrollton." Anne Arundel County History Notes 19 (October 1987): 1-2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Wax, Darold D. "A Philadelphia Surgeon on a Slaving Voyage to Africa, 1749-1751." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 92 (1968): 465-493.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Eighteenth Century
Webb, Stephen S. "The Strange Career of Francis Nicholson." William and Mary Quarterly 23 (1966): 513-548.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
White, Frank F., Jr. "James Butcher: Maryland's Forgotten Acting Governor." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 15 (January 1974): 6-8.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
"Who Was General Braddock?" Seedlings 1 (October 1990): 2.
"Would Benjamin Latrobe Still Choose America as 'The Place of the Future?'" MHS/News, (July-September 1998): 6.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Wright, Edward Needles, ed. "John Needles (1786-1878): An Autobiography." Quaker History 58 (1969): 3-21.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Yellott, John Bosley, Jr. "Jeremiah Yellott-Revolutionary-War Privateersman and Baltimore Philanthropist." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Summer 1991): 176-89.
Zimmer, Anne Young, and Alfred H. Kelly. "Jonathan Boucher: Constitutional Conservative." Journal of American History 58 (1972): 897-922.
Bluett, Thomas. Some memoirs of the life of Job, the son of Solomon, the high priest of Boonda in Africa; who was a slave about two years in Maryland; and afterwards being brought to England, was set free, and sent to his native land in the year 1734. London: Printed for R. Ford, 1734.
Henson, Josiah. Uncle Tom's story of his life from 1789 to 1877 / Rev. Josiah Henson. Nashville, TN: Winston-Derek Pub., 1997.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Steiner, Bernard Christian. Life and administration of Sir Robert Eden. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1898; reprint. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1973.
Steiner, Bernard Christian. The life and correspondence of James McHenry. N.p., 1907; reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1979.
Adams, E. J. "Religion and Freedom: Artifacts Indicate that African Culture Persisted Even in Slavery." Omni 16 (November 1993): 8.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Arpee, Marion. "Maryland Slaves in Hardey Wills and Indentures: 1718-1805." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 22 (Winter 1981): 24-27.
Barnett, Todd Harold. The Evolution of 'North' and 'South:' Settlement and Slavery on America's Sectional Border, 1650-1810. Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
Notes: The author spends some time discussing Maryland, and the Upper South in general, in order to emphasize geographic distinctions which impacted the status of free Negroes. He postulates that the treatment and status of free blacks foreshadowed the treatment of black people in general after emancipation. In addition, the author examines the various classes of free blacks to understand how different groups viewed their social role. For the elite, positions of leadership continued after the Civil War. Maryland is of particular interest since by 1810, almost one-quarter of Maryland's black population was free. Maryland therefore had the largest free black population of any state in the nation.
Categories: African American, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century