The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Bard, Harry. Maryland: State and Government, Its New Dynamics. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1974.
Notes: Divided into three sections - the first describing Maryland's people, history and geography, the second its government, and the third governmental services available to its citizens - this book provides a comprehensive description of the structure of Maryland government and its relationship to the people in the mid-1970s. Its major limitation is that some of the information may not be current because it was written almost three decades ago.
Categories: General, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century
Bentley, Amy. "Wages of War: The Shifting Landscape of Race and Gender in World War II Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Winter 1993): 420-43.
Notes: Bentley examines the impact of the dramatic changes occasioned by World War II-era production in Baltimore. In terms of race, while Jim Crow patterns prevailed in various arenas, most notably housing, new employment opportunities eventually became available as well, especially in such critical industries as steel and other war-related industries. Similarly, the role of women in employment expanded even as traditional roles were reaffirmed. Bentley argues that new wartime values challenged conventional stereotypes regarding race and gender and provided the basis for eventual changes.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Notes: Brugger's comprehensive social and cultural history of Maryland is the fruit of the decision by the Maryland Historical Society to commission a new state history in observance of Maryland's 350th anniversary. Brugger takes as his central theme that Maryland's distinction historically was that it represented a middle way-between North and State, slave and free, traditional and modern, rural/suburban/urban. The book considers the interaction of major political, social, and cultural developments. It includes a valuable bibliographical essay; a chronology of events; sets of maps, tables, and figures; and extensive illustrations.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Calcott, George. Maryland & America, 1940-1980. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Notes: Calcott examines recent Maryland history in its relation to major national trends over the period from World War II to 1980. Arguing that the state consists of four cultural areas-Baltimore City, Eastern and Southern Maryland, Western Maryland, and Suburban Maryland-Calcott considers the interaction of political, social, and cultural developments, both in terms of overall trends as well as in terms of their expression in the state's diverse regions. Major topics include post-World War II population growth and suburbanization, Cold War tensions, the Civil Rights era, political liberalism and the growth of the welfare functions of the state, educational and environmental developments, and the changing role of government.
Categories: General, African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Gibb, James G., and Julia A. King. "Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 109-131.
Notes: Using archaeological records and spatial analysis from three Southern Maryland tobacco plantation sites, the authors provide an ethnographic look at life for seventeenth-century Maryland colonists in terms of gender and class roles. The article provides a brief overview of the economics of the Chesapeake region, the structure of living arrangements, and the gendered nature of tasks. The evidence suggests how gendered and class-based activities contributed to both household production and accrued wealth. The authors conclude that comparisons between the three sites provide the basis for understanding how household wealth was a direct corollary of the ability to secure a large work force and to develop a high degree of specialization.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Harris, JoAnn. "Claire McCardell: Maryland's Fashion Prophet." Maryland 7 (Winter 1974): 2-5.
Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia. African-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Norton, M. B. "Gender, Crime, and Community in Seventeenth-century Maryland." In The Transformation of Early American History, edited by James A. Henretta, Michael Katz, and S. N. Katz, 123-150. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1991.
Rice, James D. "Laying Claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker: Family Violence on Baltimore's Waterfront, 1808-1812." In Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Acton, Lucy. "Maryland's Longest-active Woman Trainer Is All Keyed up with Two Stakes Winners." Maryland Horse 61 (April/May 1995): 46-48.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Addison-Darneille, and Henrietta Stockton. "For Better or For Worse." Civil War Times Illustrated 31 (May/June 1992): 32-35, 73.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Adelson, Bruce. "Clara Schillace Donahoe." Maryland 27 (May/June 1995): 80.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
"Adriana Zarbin: 1994-1995 Alliance President." Maryland Medical Journal 43 (June 1994): 533-34.
Agnew, Elizabeth N. Charity, Friendly Visiting, and Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Shaping of an American Profession. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1999.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Ayers, Bonnie Joe. "Sadie Miller." Maryland 17 (Autumn 1984): 39-41.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Carroll County
Baldwin, Douglas O. "Discipline, Obedience, and Female Support Groups: Mona Wilson at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1915-1918." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 69 (Winter 1995): 599-619.
Baldwin, Hélène L. "'Down street' in Cumberland: The Diaries of Two Nineteenth-Century Ladies." Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (Fall 1982): 222-29.
Categories: Women
Barlow, Marjorie Dana, comp. Notes on Woman Printers In Colonial America and the United States 1639-1975. New York: Hroswitha Club, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Barton, Lindi R. "Feminism and Suffragism: The Women's Movements of the Mid-1800's." Calvert Historian 10 (Fall 1995): 37-53.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Beauchamp, Virginia Walcott, ed. A Private War: Letters and Diaries of Madge Preston, 1862-1867. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Beckman, Rev. I. Lynn. "Mountaintop Midwife." Glades Star 6 (September 1990): 444-47, 449-50.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Women, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Behind the Maryland Scene: Women of Influence, 1600-1800. N.p.: National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Maryland et al., 1977.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Beirne, D. Randall. "Gossip and Mrs. Simpson." Maryland Humanities (January 1999): 17-20.
Bellinger, Annie. "Marylanders Through and Through." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 88.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Chesapeake Region
Benson, Robert Louis. "Queen Anne." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (July 1994): 5, 12.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Women, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County