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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Marks, Bayly Ellen, and Mark Norton Schatz, eds. Between North and South, A Maryland Journalist Views the Civil War: The Narrative of William Wilkins Glenn, 1861-1869. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1976.

Meyer, Sam. "Religion, Patriotism, and Poetry in the Life of Francis Scott Key." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 267-74.

Micklus, Robert. The Comic Genius of Dr. Alexander Hamilton. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Mumma, Wilmer M. "'Greatest Circus Fan on Earth'." Maryland Cracker Barrel 19 (October 1989): 5-7.

Nelson, John N. 'What God Does is Well Done': The Jonathan Hager Files. Hagerstown, MD: City of Hagerstown, 1997.

Parker, Michael P. "Alphabetical (Dis-)Order: The Annapolis Satires of William Oliver Stevens." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Spring 1990): 15-43.

Reese, Timothy J. "One Man's Battlefield: George Alfred Townsend and the War Correspondents Memorial Arch." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Fall 1997): 356-85.
Notes: Visitors to the Gathland State Park on South Mountain will find the only monument dedicated to Civil War newsmen. This monument was the brainchild of George Alfred Townsend, a Maryland journalist and author whose nickname was "Gath." This account of his campaign to honor his fellow war correspondents includes an overview of his life and career.

Ridout, Orlando, IV. "My Grandfather, The Bentztown Bard." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (July 1991): 3-4, 9-11.

Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth, ed. Mencken and Sara, A Life in Letters: The Private Correspondence of H. L. Mencken and Sara Haardt. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Robert J. Brugger." Maryland Humanities (Spring/Summer 1995): 36-37.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Robert I. Cottom, Jr." Maryland Humanities (November/December 1994): 28-29.

Shapiro, Karl Jay. Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988.

Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.

Stotelmeyer, Steven R. "The Reno Monument Story." Maryland Cracker Barrel 19 (September 1989): 17, 19-20.

Stutesman, John Hale. "Stephen Ulrich of Washington County, Maryland." Mennonite Family History 12 (April 1993): 78-79.

Vojtech, Pat. "Prophet and Pariah." Annapolis 8 (January 1994): 24-29.
Notes: Tom Horton.

Wentworth, Jean. "Not Without Honor: William Lloyd Garrison." Maryland Historical Magazine 62 (1967): 318-336.

Whitehill, Joseph. "The Convict and the Burgher: a Case Study of Communication Crime." American Scholar 38 (1969): 441-451.

Wineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.

Yardley, Jonathan. States of Mind: A Personal Journey Through the Mid-Atlantic. New York: Villard, 1993.
Notes: A combination travelogue and autobiography, the award-winning <em>Washington Post</em> book critic, Jonathan Yardley, surveys the scene in and around Maryland. His distinctive style makes for entertaining reading as he looks for the characteristic and unusual in the region. Yardley's book is an ideal companion guide for visitors seeking a more personal perspective on the people and places of the mid-Atlantic.

Anderson, Douglas. "The Textual Reproductions of Frederick Douglass." Clio 27 (Fall 1998): 57-87.

Ballard, Barbara Jean. Nineteenth-Century Theories of Race, the Concept of Correspondences, and the Images of Blacks in the Anti-slavery Writings of Douglass, Stow, and Browne. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1992.

Basalla, Susan Elizabeth. Family Resemblances: Zora Neale Hurston's Anthropological Heritage. Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1997.

Bedini, Silvio A. The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of Science. Rev. ed. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1999.

Blassingame, John W., and John R. McKivigan, eds. Series one, vol. 4. The Frederick Douglass Papers: Speeches, Debates and Interviews, 1864-80. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

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