The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Moore, Virginia Campbell. "Remembrances of Life Along the Rockville Pike During the Civil War." The Montgomery County Story 27 (November 1984): 127-142.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Musgrove, Ora Dale Watkins. "My Childhood in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 38 (November 1995): 357-68.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Offord, James. "Memories of Sandy Spring." Legacy 13 (Winter 1993): 4.
Offutt, William M. "Miracle in Bethesda." Montgomery County Story 38 (May 1995): 333-44.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Stabler, Stanley. "When Horses Made Sandy Spring Run." Legacy 15 (Summer 1995): 6.
Abingbade, Harrison Ola. "The Settler-African Conflicts: The Case of the Maryland Colonists and the Grebo 1840-1900." Journal of Negro History 66 (Summer 1981): 93-109.
Categories: African American, Maritime, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Alpert, Jonathan L. "The Origin of Slavery in the United States: The Maryland Precedent." American Journal of Legal History 14 (1970): 189-222.
Notes: Maryland was the "first province in English North America to recognize slavery as a matter of law" (189). Therefore, the study of Maryland is useful for historians studying how American slavery was a product of the law. Early legislation recognized the existence of slavery, for while indentured servitude and slavery co-existed, and the terms were used interchangeably, the law still distinguished between the two. "All slaves were servants but not all servants were slaves" (193). However, it wasn't until 1664 when a statue was created which established slavery as hereditary. This statute was the first law in English North American to thus establish this type of slavery, legalizing what had been de facto since 1639. The author concludes that laws reflect the attitudes of a society and the manner in which societal problems are resolved. In the case of Maryland, servant problems could be avoided by replacing indentured servitude with perpetual slavery.
Categories: African American, Native American, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Clarke, Nina H., and Lillian B. Brown. History of the Black Public Schools of Montgomery County, Maryland 1872-1961. New York: Vantage Press, 1978.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Education, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Cohen, Anthony. The Underground Railroad in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Historical Society, 1994.
Cohen, Anthony M. "The Underground Railroad in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 38 (February 1995): 321-32.
Craven, Wesley Frank. White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1971.
Notes: Remains the standard multi-cultural work for the 17th century.
Categories: African American, Ethnic History, Native American, Seventeenth Century
"Emory Grove: A Black Community of Yesteryear." Montgomery County Story 31 (February 1988): 1-10.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Farquhar, Roger Brooke, III. "Slavery Ebbed Early in Sandy Spring." Legacy 17 (Winter 1997): 1, 7.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Fly, Everrett L., and La Barbara Wigfall Fly. Northeastern, Montgomery County Black Oral History Study. Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Development, 1983.
Halper, Lee. "On Growing Up Black in Sandy Spring." Legacy 19 (Spring 1999): 1, 3.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Harrold, Stanley. "Freeing the Weems Family: A New Look at the Underground Railroad." Civil War History 42 (December 1996): 289-306.
Notes: The author examines conventional and scholarly interpretations of underground railroad by looking at the escape of the Weems family from the Chesapeake region of Maryland. By using the Weems family as a case study, the author challenges thirty years' worth of scholarship on the underground railroad. By examining a family that escaped from a border state, the author is able to explore both black self-determination and white assistance found in the records of this family's escape. In addition, the author examines a bi-racial network of non-Garrisonian abolitionists who raised money to purchase the freedom of slaves, or if that was not possible, to channel the money raised into effecting an escape plan.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Kimmel, Ross M. "Free Blacks in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Spring 1976): 19-25.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Howard County, Montgomery County
McDaniel, George W. Black Historical Resources in Upper Western Montgomery County. N.p,: Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1979.
Categories: African American, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
McGuckian, Eileen. "Black Builders in Montgomery County 1865-1940." Montgomery County Story 35 (February 1992): 189-200.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Posilkin, Robert Stuart. An Historical Study of the Desegregation of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Public Schools, 1954-1977. Ed.D. diss., George Washington University, 1979.
Categories: African American, Education, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Walston, Mark. "A Survey of Slave Housing in Montgomery County." The Montgomery County Story 27 (August 1984): 111-126.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
"Beale House and Polychrome Houses Added to National Register." The Preservationist (July-August 1997): 1, 3.
Caravaggio, Joan. "Clara Barton's Glen Echo Home from Past to Present." Montgomery County Story 19 (November 1976): 1-10.
Cissel, Anne W. "Summit Hall: 230 Years from Logtown to Summit Hall Farm Park." Montgomery County Story 32 (August 1989): 71-80.