The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Bosworth, Timothy W. "Anti-Catholicism as a Political Tool in Mid-Eighteenth Century Maryland." Catholic Historical Review 61 (October 1975): 539-63.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Edsall, Thomas B. "Money and Morality in Maryland." Society 11 (1974): 74-81.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Religion
Eitches, Edward. "Maryland's 'Jew Bill.'" American Jewish Historical Quarterly 60 (1971): 258-279.
Notes: The long and arduous struggle to pass the bill that would "extend to the sect of people professing the Jewish religion, the same rights and privileges enjoyed by Christians." Within the historical and religious context of Maryland's test oaths, Federal-Republican power struggles, and urban-agrarian conflicts to liberalize parts of the state constitution, a specific version of the "Jew Bill" is finally passed in 1826, by its foremost champion, Thomas Kennedy.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Everstine, Carl N. "Maryland's Toleration Act: An Appraisal." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Summer 1984): 99-116.
Notes: Considered from afar, Maryland's Toleration Act (1649) reinforces the nation's long tradition of religious toleration and moderation; or does it? After examining the wording of the act, and the history of toleration prior to 1649, the author points out that the act was repealed in 1654, and, while the repeal was itself repealed soon after, toleration would continue in force only until 1696, when the Church of England was established as the sole religious establishment in the Province. Caught in the rivalry between the resurgent Puritans and the Catholics at mid-century, religious toleration was on shaky grounds from the beginning. With the ascendancy of the Anglican Church in 1696, things grew worse for Catholics, and more legislation was adopted in the ensuing years restricting their ability to practice their religion publicly. Religious toleration for Christians was re-introduced in the state Constitution of 1776 and expanded to include Jews fifty years later.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Gribbin, William. "A Reply of John Adams on Episcopacy and the American Revolution." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 44 (1975): 277-283.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century
Hanley, Thomas O'Brien, S.J. "The Catholic and Anglican Gentry in Maryland Politics." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 38 (1969): 143-151.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion
Haw, James A. "The Patronage Follies: Bennet Allen, John Norton Jordan, and the Fall of Horatio Sharpe." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Summer 1976): 134-50.
Jordan, David W. "'God's Candle' Within Government: Quakers and Politics in Early Maryland." William and Mary Quarterly 3d series, 39 (October 1982): 628-54.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century
Mason, Keith. "Localism, Evangelicalism, and Loyalism: The Sources of Oppression in the Revolutionary Chesapeake." Journal of Southern History 56 (February 1990): 23-54.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Papenfuse, Edward C. An Act Concerning Religion, April 21, 1649: An Interpretation and Tribute to the Citizen Legislators of Maryland. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1999.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century
Todd, Edward N., ed. "The 'Recollections' of Hugh Davey Evans." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 34 (1965): 297-332.
Vivian, Jean H. "The Poll Tax Controversy in Maryland, 1770-76: A Case of Taxation with Representation." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Summer 1976): 151-76.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century
Yackel, Peter G. "Benefit of Clergy in Colonial Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 383-97.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Risjord, Norman K. Chesapeake Politics 1781-1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Notes: This is a richly detailed study of the development of political parties in the three states - Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina - which comprise the Chesapeake region. Using cluster-bloc analysis where possible, especially for Maryland, and more traditional sources where the roll-calls are too scarce, this study focuses on the growth of partisanship in the state legislatures. Sharing the post-war problems of debt, depression, social unrest, as well as reacting to national issues, such as the structure of the central government, western lands, the location of the capital, neutrality, the Jay Treaty, the Quasi-War with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts, as well as other issues, each state responded with subtle differences. Overall, however, these experiences strengthened party identification and organization, so that by the election of 1800 a major party competition existed.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Atwood, Liz. "Jews in Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 19-25.
Bauernschub, John P. Columbianism in Maryland, 1897-1965. Baltimore: Maryland State Council, Knights of Columbus, 1965.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Bilhartz, Terry. Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening: Church and Society in Early National Baltimore. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson Univerity Press, 1986.
Chappell, Helen. The Chesapeake Book of the Dead: Tombstones, Epitaphs, Histories, Reflections, and Oddments of the Region. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Davis, Richard Beale. Intellectual Life in the Colonial South 1585-1763, 3 vols. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978.
Notes: Davis's three-volume work surveys the "nature and development of the southern mind" during the colonial period and seeks to counter the standard interpretation of the predominant role of colonial New England in shaping the intellectual life of what would become the new nation. Topics include education, libraries and printing, religious writings, fine arts, literature, and public oratory. The volumes draw extensively on manuscript collections, some only recently discovered, in Britain and the United States, including important Maryland archives; chapters are followed by extensive bibliographies and notes.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Davis, Richard Beale. "Southern Writing of the Revolutionary Period c. 1760-1790." Early American Literature 12 (Fall 1977): 107-20.
Notes: Davis contends that a great body of literature for the late eighteenth century American South has only just begun to be recognized and made available. The author provides a brief discussion of representative works in the various genres considered-letters, pamphlets, theological writings, diaries, poems, etc.-along with a bibliography of holdings in the Maryland Historical Society and other Southeastern state repositories. Davis believes that this literary collection-much of which was unpublished and relatively unknown-represents an important corrective to the impression that New England far outdistanced the South in written expression.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Present at the 'Creation': The Chesapeake World that Greeted the Maryland Colonists." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 7-20.
Notes: Fausz examines relations between Europeans (especially the English of Maryland and Virginia) and Native Americans of the Chesapeake region in the decade immediately preceding the settlement of the Maryland colony at St. Mary's in 1634. He argues that the interaction between Englishmen and Native Americans provided the basis for tobacco cultivation and the beaver fur trade. Both paved the way for successful adaption of the early English settlers to new American conditions.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
"The Great Game." Johns Hopkins Magazine 7 (April 1956): 7-9, 20-21.
Notes: The article discusses the Native American origins of lacrosse in a game called "baggattaway," tracing its adaption in the nineteenth century as a popular sport among Canadians and its spread to the United States. First played in Baltimore in the 1870s, it became a club and intercollegiate sport in the area. In 1928 lacrosse arrived on the world scene as a sport at the Amsterdam Olympics.
Categories: Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Guyther, Joseph Roy. "Riddle of the Amish Culture." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Fall 1997): 242-46.
Harte, Thomas J. "Social Origins of the Brandywine Population." Phylon 24 (1963): 369-378.
Notes: Harte seeks to establish the eighteenth-century origins of a distinctive mixed race "Brandywine" population in Charles County, though he fails to explain this social identity for the general reader. He points to Maryland laws against miscegenation and cross-racial sexual relationships as indirect evidence that both had occurred in the colony and cites Charles County records for violations of those laws. The article provides less direct support for his contention that Native American ancestry may also have been involved in the mixed race unions. Harte concludes that isolated family groupings in the eighteenth century served as the basis of the identifiable Brandywine population in the county in the nineteenth century.
Categories: African American, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Jervey, Edward D. "Henry L. Mencken and American Methodism." Journal of Popular Culture 12 (Summer 1978): 75-87.
Notes: Jervey chronicles H. L. Mencken's well-known antagonism toward organized religion, especially harsh in his writing of the 1920s. The article focuses especially upon Mencken's tendency to single out the Methodists, whom he viewed as representing the dominant social and cultural values of mainstream and conservative Protestantism. He argues that Protestant support for Prohibition and opposition to new, scientific knowledge, as evidenced by the conflict over the theory of evolution, served as touchstones for Mencken's satire and scorn.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century