The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Fitzsimons, Mrs. Neal. "'Uncle Tom' in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 18 (May 1975): 1-14.
Notes: This article explores the little-known connection between Harriet Beecher Stowe's <em>Uncle Tom's Cabin</em> and the story of Josiah Henson, a slave from Montgomery County. Henson's autobiography apparently inspired the author of what became one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century. Fitzsimons provides excerpts from Henson's narrative and surveys the sites in Montgomery County associated with his life.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Freeman, Elizabeth Stone. The Wedding Complex: Sex Norms and Fantasy Forms in Modern American Culture. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1996.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Gambrell, Alice. "Serious Fun: Recent Work on Zora Neale Hurston." Studies in the Novel 29 (Summer 1997): 238-44.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Twentieth Century
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth. "Mencken's 'In Defense of Women.'" Menckeniana 121 (Spring 1992): 11-13.
Siebert, Sara. "Mencken on Women." Menckeniana 121 (Spring 1992): 13-15.
Wingate, P. J. "Women Understood H. L. Mencken." Menckeniana 128 (Winter 1993): 7-9.
Cissel, Anne W. "Public Houses of Entertainment and their Proprietors, 1750-1828." Montgomery County Story 30 (August 1987): 279-94.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Clarke, Donald. Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Deutsch, Helen Waverly. Laura Keene's Theatre Management: Profile of a Profession in Transition. Ph.D. diss., Tufts University, 1992.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Women
Drake, James A. Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography. Portland, OR: Amadeus/Timber, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
LaRoche, Gerard. "Music at Riversdale." Riversdale Letter 12 (Summer 1995): 2-4.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
O'Meally, Robert G. Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday. New York: Arcade Pub., 1991.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane. Rosa Ponselle: American Diva. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Ponselle, Rosa, and James A. Drake. Ponselle: A Singer's Life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Weems, Helen R. The History of the Women's String Orchestra. M.M. thesis, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1990.
Notes: The Women's String Orchestra was organized in 1936 to provide performance opportunities to women musicians barred from the all-male Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra, which numbered between 35 to 40 players, performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cadoa Hall and the Peabody. Less than two months after the debut of the Women's String Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony opened its auditions to women (five of the women string players were hired). Weems' thesis examines the public response to female orchestral musicians in Baltimore and elsewhere in the United States and the role of women in the musical life of the city in the late 1930s. Her interviews with the founding members of the orchestra provide vivid accounts of the barriers placed in the paths of these pioneering women and how they surmounted them.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945. Part IV: Performances by Servicemen and Women in Fort Meade and American Cities." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (July 1991): 5-6, 12-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Adams, Cheryl, and Art Emerson. Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives: A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Washington: Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress, 1998.
Notes: Institutional level descriptions for nineteen Maryland libraries and archives holding significant religious collections. A tremendous level of detail is given. Subject headings are assigned to each institution. This guide is also available online at <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/">https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/</a>.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Washington County
Adams, Henry DeCoursey. "The First Fifteen Years of the Montgomery County Historical Society." Montgomery County Story 3 (November 1959): 1-10.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Bache, Ellyn. "Miss Mary and the Book Wagon." Maryland 21 (Winter 1988): 32-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Baltimore Museum of Art. :Annual I The Museum: Its First Half Century. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.
Notes: A history of the first fifty years of the BMA, from its start as a City-Wide Congress Committee on Founding an Art Museum (1911), to its temporary home in Mount Vernon, to the construction of its permanent home in Wyman Park. A major thesis is that a very modern thinking museum became a great success in a city known for being conservative. Nicely illustrated with works from the collection and photographs of museum activities.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Barquist, Rose, et al. A Source Book for Early Western Maryland History and Genealogy. Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing House, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Montgomery County
Beirne, Francis F. "The Four Merchants." In The Amiable Baltimoreans. New York, 1951; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Berry, John. "Librarian of the Year: 1995: Carla D. Hayden: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore." Library Journal 121 (January 1996): 36.
Categories: African American, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Bowers, Deborah. "On the Road Again: The Bookmobile in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 28-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Bowers, Deborah. "A One-Hundred Year History of Libraries in Harford County from 1885." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 3-27.
Notes: In the late nineteenth century many of Harford County's communities formed library organizations. Following the 1945 Maryland Library Aid Act a Harford County library system was established. At the time of this article Harford County has a growing public library system with a good number of branches spread across the county.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County