The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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>.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Washington County
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.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Beirne, Francis F. "The Four Merchants." In The Amiable Baltimoreans. New York, 1951; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
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.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century
Cadbury, Henry J. "More First Publishers of Truth." Journal of the Friends' Historical Society [Great Britain] 52 (1970): 159-167.
Fishman, Bernard P. "Back to East Baltimore. An Introduction to the New Jewish Heritage Center." Generations (Fall 1986): 10-11.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Religion, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century
Hollowak, Thomas L. "Maryland Genealogy and Family History: A Bibliography, 1987-1989." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 33 (Summer 1992): 484-530.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
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.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Kellman, Naomi. "From File Drawer to Heritage Center: A Brief History of the Jewish Historical Society." Generations (Fall 1986): 9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
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.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Maryland, Our Maryland: An Ethnic and Cultural Directory. Baltimore: Baltimore Council for International Visitors, 1975.
Nitzberg, Gertrude Singer. "The Music Library of the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, Inc." Generations 3 (December 1982): 37-38.
Notes: A discussion of the development of an oral history program to capture Yiddish songs. The Society was also actively collecting old Jewish 78 rpm records and sheet music.
Categories: Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Polites, Angeline, comp., and ed. Maryland 350th Anniversary Speakers Guide and Directory. Annapolis: Maryland Commission on Ethnic Affairs, 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Reichman, Felix. "German Printing in Maryland: A Check List, 1768-1950." Report of the Society for the History of Germans in Maryland 27 (1950): 9-70.
Categories: Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Saye, Hymen. The Papers of Harry Greenstein: Saga of a Humanitarian. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Scarpaci, Jean. The Ethnic Experience in Maryland: A Bibliography of Resources. Towson: Towson State University, [1978].
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
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.
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
Starin, Mary Elizabeth. "The Callister Papers, Maryland Room, Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 15 (January 1974): 3-5.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
'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.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Religion
Berkin, Carol R. "Jonathan Boucher: The Loyalist as Rebel." West Georgia College Studies in the Social Studies 15 (June 1976): 65-78.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Bosworth, Timothy W. "Anti-Catholicism as a Political Tool in Mid-Eighteenth Century Maryland." Catholic Historical Review 61 (October 1975): 539-63.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Edsall, Thomas B. "Money and Morality in Maryland." Society 11 (1974): 74-81.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Religion