The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Shopes, Linda. "The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project: Oral History and Community Involvement." Radical History Review 25 (October 1981): 27-44.
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
The State Gazetteer and Merchants and Farmers Directory for Maryland and District of Columbia. Baltimore, MD: Sadler, Drysdale, & Purnell, 1871.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century
Steiner, Bruce C. "Descriptions of Maryland." Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science 22 (1904).
Categories: General, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works
Worcester County Library. Guide to the William D. Pitts Collection. Snow Hill, MD: Worcester County Library, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
"Worcester County Library, Snow Hill: Opening/Dedication of William D. Pitts Collection , Maryland Land Surveys, 1677-1982, 23 October 1987." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 28 (1987): 123-124.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. "Matthias de Sousa: Colonial Maryland's Black, Jewish Assemblyman." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (December 1978): 397-98.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Politics and Law
Formwalt, Lee W. "A Conversation Between Two Rivers: A Debate on the Location of the U.S. Capital in Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Fall 1976): 310-21.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law
Rhodes, Irwin S. "Early Legal Records of Jews of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." American Jewish Archives 12 (1960): 96-108.
Categories: Ethnic History, Politics and Law
Rice, James D. "'This Province, so meanly and Thinly Inhabited': Labor, Race, and Penal Practices in Maryland, 1681-1837." Journal of the Early Republic, 19 (Spring 1999): 15-42.
Weaver, Glenn. "Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania Germans." William and Mary Quarterly 14 (1957): 536-559.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century
Atwood, Liz. "Jews in Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 19-25.
Beirne, D. Randall. "German Immigration to Nineteenth-Century Baltimore." Maryland Humanities (September/October 1994): 15-17.
Categories: Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Bonvillain, Dorothy Guy. Cultural Pluralism and the Americanization of Immigrants: The Role of Public Schools and Ethnic Communities, Baltimore, 1890-1920. Ph.D. diss., American University, 1999.
Categories: Education, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Cahn, Louis F. "Baltimore Jews and Baltimore Horses." Generations 3 (June 1982): 23-30.
Carey, George. "A Sampler of Baltimore's Folk Culture." Johns Hopkins Magazine 27 (January 1976): 8-12.
Notes: George Carey, former Maryland state folklorist, notes that folklore often has been understood as applying to rural and traditional ways of life, but he insists that the concept is equally relevant for the study of urban settings like Baltimore. The most obvious examples he finds in the city's ethnic neighborhoods, both European and African American, including Ukrainian-American Easter egg designs, window screens painted by Czech-Americans, and African-American A-rabing (street hawker) cries, songs, and storytelling.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman, eds. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Notes: Essays on aspects of the social history of Baltimore provide case studies of social issues and neighborhood dynamics. Paired chapters first consider the lives of ordinary B&O Railroad workers involved in the railroad strike of 1877, then examine the powerful family of B&O magnate John Work Garrett. Chapters on work consider the area's mill villages, the garment industry, and union activity. Studies of neighborhoods address the history of Fells Point in terms of race and ethnicity and racial change in west Baltimore.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Feest, Christian F. "Ethnohistory, Moral History, and Colonial Maryland." Amerikastudien 28 (No. 4 1983): 429-433.
Categories: Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Fein, Isaac. The Making of an American Jewish Community: The History of Baltimore Jewry from 1773 to 1920. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.
Feldman, Dianne. "The Mystery of Rodeph Schalem: Exploring a Jewish Organization Lost to History." Generations (Fall 1998): 17-19.
Greatman, Bonnie M. A Dialect Atlas of Maryland. Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1970.
Kelbaugh, Jack, and Fred Fetrow. "Murder, Music, and Meteorology: When the Russians Came to the County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (October 1997): 1-2.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County
McGowan, Lynn. "A Survey of Irish Usage among Immigrants in the United States." In The Irish Language in the United States: A Historical, Sociolinguistic, and Applied Linguistic Study, edited by Thomas W. Ihde. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994, 67-76.
Notes: To evaluate the persistence of Irish language usage by Irish immigrants to the United States in the period following 1922, McGowan conducted a limited survey of respondents in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. In order to determine the impact of Irish language instruction fostered by the Free State of Ireland, she selected only those who had been educated in Irish primary schools after the implementation of the language policy. She found that for most immigrants to the United States, Irish had remained a "school language," not used a great deal in everyday life, though there were important degrees of persistence in reading, writing, and conversation.
Categories: Education, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Orser, Edward, and Joseph Arnold. Catonsville, 1880-1940: From Village to Suburb. Norfolk, VA: Donning Pubishing Co., 1989.
Notes: This photographic history traces the history of Catonsville, on Baltimore County's west side, from the 1880s, when the village center served the needs of travelers on Frederick Road and the surrounding agricultural area, as well as afforded sites for summer homes for some of Baltimore's elite, to 1940, when growth, development, and transportation links heightened its suburban character within the Baltimore metropolitan region. The volume includes research evidence on the social make-up of the community, such as the impact of German and Irish immigrants and the role of its historic African American community.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Potter, Lillian Howard. "Political Cooperation, Economic Competition: Relationships Between Jewish and Black Communities in Baltimore, Maryland, 1930-1940." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1998): 7.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Preston, Robert M. "The Great Fire of Emmitsburg, Maryland: Does a Catastrophic Event Cause Mobility?" Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (Summer 1982): 172-82.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County