The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Papenfuse, Edward C. "Remarks on the History of the Maryland Legislature, 1643-1694." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (May 1984): 149-155.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Raley, J. Frank, Jr. "The Senate Desk 1776 to 1966." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Fall 1992): 145-48.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
"Recognizing Maryland's Role in 'The First Freedom.'" A Briefe Relation 21 (Spring 1999): 1, 8.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
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.
Roberts, David. "St. Mary's Elects the President, 1840-1980." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (September 1980): 225-29.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Social Studies Seminar, Chopticon High School, Morganza, St. Mary's County, Maryland. "St. Mary's County, Maryland, Cemetery Indexes." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 21 (January 1980): 4-5.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
Social Studies Seminar, Chopticon High School, Morganza, St. Mary's County, Maryland. "St. Mary's County, Maryland, Cemetery Indexes." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 21 (April 1980): 36-37.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
Social Studies Seminar, Chopticon High School, Morganza, St. Mary's County, Maryland. "St. Mary's County, Maryland, Cemetery Indexes." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 21 (July 1980): 68-69.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
Social Studies Seminar, Chopticon High School, Morganza, St. Mary's County, Maryland. "St. Mary's County, Maryland, Cemetery Indexes." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 21 (October 1980): 100-01.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
Stevens, L. Tomlin. "Maryland and the Adoption of the Federal Constitution." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Fall 1987): 49-54.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Stewart, Oliver D., Jr. "350 Years of Service: St. Mary's County Sheriff's Department." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 77.
Categories: Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
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
Carr, Lois Green. "Sources of Political Stability and Upheaval in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 44-70.
Notes: Challenging the prevailing notion that seventeenth century Maryland politics were inherently chaotic, Carr argues that community networks were being formed through which information was exchanged and community oversight imposed, and that County courts emerged as <em>de facto</em> local governments. Local men, who may have been planters or former indentured servants, were appointed as justices. During the hiatus following the Revolution of 1689 local government continued to operate. After discussing the various political crises before and after 1689, Carr concludes that the underlying cause of Maryland's political instability was a failure of leadership of the men at the top of Maryland society.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Ridgway, Whitman H. Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840. A Comparative Analysis of Power in Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: Applying social science methodology to reconstruct patterns of decision making and their significance, this work examines the formation of elites in four political communities representing the diversity of the state (Baltimore City, and the counties of Frederick, St. Mary's, and Talbot) in two political eras (the Jeffersonian and the Jacksonian). In the more rural areas, such as St. Mary's and Talbot counties, decision makers overlapped with those who held public office and dominated community affairs, and little changed between the two periods. Where there was greater social and economic diversity, the patterns were considerably different. Elites became more specialized forcing decision makers to accommodate the demands of new leaders who represented a expanding popular political base. Members of the different elites (decisional, commercial, positional and traditional) are identified, along with individual socio-economic information, in the appendices.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Frederick County, St. Mary's County, Talbot County
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
Beitzell, Edwin W., ed. "Diary of Dr. Joseph L. McWilliams, 1868-1875." Chronicles of St. Mary's 23 (March 1975): 17-24; (May 1975): 37-44; (June 1975): 45-50.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Bennett, Joyce. "Steeped in English Tradition." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Winter 1999): 412-13, 419.
Berger, Michael L. "Farmers, Flivvers, and Family Life: 1900-1929." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (July 1984): 165-175.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
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
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "Changing Life Styles in Colonial St. Mary's County." Working Papers from the Regional Economic History Research Center 1 (no. 3, 1978): 73-118.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "Inventories and the Analysis of Wealth and Consumption Patterns in St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1658-1777." Historical Methods 13 (Spring 1980): 81-104.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County