The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Millikin, Mark R. Jimmie Foxx: The Pride of Sudlersville. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998.
Notes: The story of Babe Ruth's Baltimore background is well known. Fewer remember that Hall of Famer and Ruth rival, Jimmy Foxx, hailed from Maryland's Eastern Shore. A star with the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, Foxx hit 58 home runs in 1932 and was that year's American League Most Valuable Player.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Morsberger, Robert E. "General Lew Wallace: Latter-Day Lord of Baltimore." Maryland 9 (Summer 1977): 2-6.
Mudd, Patrick C. "A World War II Prisoner of War in Germany." The Record 46 (June 1989): 1-4.
Mumma, Wilmer M. "'Greatest Circus Fan on Earth'." Maryland Cracker Barrel 19 (October 1989): 5-7.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Nicholson, Lois P. From Maryland to Cooperstown: Seven Maryland Natives in Baseball's Hall of Fame. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1998.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Nicholson, Lois. Babe Ruth: Sultan of Swat. Woodbury, CT: Goodwood Press, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Nine Innings with Cal Ripken Jr., By the People Who Knew Him Best. Dallas, TX: Beckett Publications, 1998.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Norton, Louis Arthur. Joshua Barney, Hero of the Revolution and 1812. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000.
Notes: Joshua Barney (1758-1818) was a naval hero in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Aside from his military exploits, this patriotic Marylander's life is closely associated with the history of the American flag. Barney is best known for the spirited action of the barge men under his command at the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814. Alone among the Americans at the battle, Barney and his men fought bravely against a superior British force.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Military, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, War of 1812
Offit, Sidney. Memoir of the Bookie's Son. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Offutt, William M. "Miracle in Bethesda." Montgomery County Story 38 (May 1995): 333-44.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Otter, William. History of My Own Times or, the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sen. Comprising a Series of Events, and Musical Incidents Altogether Original. Emmitsburg, MD: n.p., 1835; reprint. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Notes: William Otter (1787-1856) has left an entertaining autobiography of his life as a plasterer and practical jokester. Originally published in Emmitsburg in 1835, Otter's <em>History</em> offers an unusual glimpse into social history from an artisan's perspective. Whether Otter's humorous adventures and anecdotes are all true is debatable. His story does, however, suggest a continuation of the irreverent Maryland personality seen in the works of Ebenezer Cooke, Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Meshack Browning.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Parker, Willie J. Game Warden: Chesapeake Assignment. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1983.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
"Paul William Englar." Carroll County History Journal 44 (November 1993): 3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
Peddicord, Ross. "World's Oldest Master Led Charmed Life." Maryland Horse 60 (February/March 1994): 80-83.
Notes: Wilbur Ross Hubbard.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Perrin, Paul Semmes. "Admiral Raphael Semmes." The Record 49 (October 1990): 1-3.
Plummer, Norman H. "Lieutenant John Trippe: The Last Chapter." Weather Gauge 30 (Spring 1994): 21-27.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Military, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Ponton, Jean Alice. Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough: The Formation of a Nineteenth Century Naval Officer. Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of America, 1996.
Prettyman, George B., Sr. "Lester Stanley German: Major League Baseball Player in the 1890s." Harford Historical Bulletin 54 (Fall 1992): 117-20.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Priest, John Michael. Captain James Wren's Civil War Diary, From New Bern to Fredericksburg: B Company, 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers, February 20, 1862-December 17, 1862. New York: Berkley Books, 1991.
Regan, Stephen D. In Bitter Tempest: The Biography of Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994.
Reitzel, Philip M. "A Soldier's Letters, 1864." Maryland Historical Magazine 83 (Fall 1988): 254-67.
Ripken, Cal, Sr. The Ripken Way: A Manual for Baseball and Life. New York: Pocket Books, 1999.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Ripken, Cal, Jr., and Mike Bryan. The Only Way I Know. New York: Viking Penguin, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Ripken, Cal, Jr. Ripken: Cal on Cal. Arlington, TX: Summit Publishing Group, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Ritter, Lawrence S. The Babe: A Life in Pictures. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century