The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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 Davis believes that this literary collection-much of which was unpublished and relatively unknown-represents an important corrective to the impression that New England far outdistanced the South in written expression.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
Guyther, Joseph Roy. "Riddle of the Amish Culture." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Fall 1997): 242-46.
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
Neville, John Davenport. "Hugh Jones and His Universal Georgian Calendar." Virginia Cavalcade 26 (Winter 1977): 134-43.
Notes: Maryland Anglican Minister.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Rosenwaike, Ira. "Characteristics of Baltimore's Jewish Population in a Nineteenth-Century Census." American Jewish History 82 (1994): 123-39.
Notes: Rosenwaike uses a unique census from the Baltimore City Archives to analyze the characteristics of Baltimore's Jewish population in 1868. The census, compiled by Baltimore police to determine ward size (and only partially completed), included religious identification, a category not listed in the federal manuscript census. Making use of a limited number of studies of Jewish population in other cities, most smaller, the author finds roughly similar patterns, though a slightly higher percentage who were native born and a very high percentage who listed Germany as their place of origin. Like their co-religionists elsewhere at the time, Baltimore Jews were relatively young, had sizable families, and were most likely to be headed by males in proprietary and managerial occupations.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
"St. Martin's Camp." Isle of Kent (Spring 1993): 1-2.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore City, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
"Summertime at the Old Love Point Hotel." Isle of Kent (Summer 1991): 223-24.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Terrar, Edward F. Social, Economic, and Religious Beliefs among Maryland Catholic Laboring People during the Period of the English Civil War, 1639-1660. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Vicchio, Stephen J. "Baltimore's Burial Practices, Mortuary Art, and Notions of Grief and Bereavement, 1780-1900." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Summer 1986): 134-148.
Notes: Vicchio examines the history of the Westminster Burial Ground, established in Baltimore in 1787 by the First Presbyterian Church, as an example of funeral practices among the city's Protestants in the period 1780-1900. He distinguishes three periods: 1780-1810, characterized by simple stone markers and minimal ritual; 1810-1840, marked by greater class distinction, evident, for instance, in architectural embellishments, the early stages of a burial industry, and rituals emphasizing family loss; and 1840-1900, when the romantic view of death gave rise to "rural cemeteries," like Green Mount, the burial industry became highly established (adding flowers, embalming, and elaborate caskets), and sentimentalization of death prevailed.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Zmora, Nurith. "A Rediscovery of the Asylum: The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Through the Lives of Its First Fifty Orphans." American Jewish History 72 (March 1988): 452-75.
Notes: Examining the early history of the Baltimore Hebrew Orphan Asylum, established in 1873 in west Baltimore, Zmora provides evidence to refute the interpretation that such institutions were characterized by detention and represented the breakdown of family ties. Her study draws upon a variety of records to provide a profile of the orphanage's early inmates and the families from which they came. Zmora contends that the profile indicates the special vulnerability of young widows and the difficulty of placing orphaned siblings in the same home, but argues for the relative success of the institution in reuniting children with members of their families.
Categories: Ethnic History, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Yealdhall, J. Edward. "Crossing the Bay on the 'Smokey Joe'." Isle of Kent (Spring 1993): 7-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Queen Anne's County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Beauchamp, Virginia Walcott, ed. A Private War: Letters and Diaries of Madge Preston, 1862-1867. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Donovan, Grace. "An American Catholic in Victorian England: Louisa, Duchess of Leeds, and the Carroll Family Benefice." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 223-34.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century, Carroll County
Donovan, Grace E. "The Caton Sisters: The Carrolls of Carrollton Two Generations Later." U.S. Catholic Historian 5, Issue 3-4 (1986): 291-303.
Categories: Religion, Women, Carroll County
Hardy, Beatriz Betancourt. "Women and the Catholic Church in Maryland, 1689-1776." Maryland Historical Magazine 94 (Winter 1999): 396-418.
Notes: A comparison of the experiences of two Catholic colonial women - Jane Doyne, an elite woman from the lower Western Shore, and Jenny, an enslaved woman on the Eastern Shore. Roman Catholicism was a significant part of their lives, and as women they served an important role in maintaining and transmitting the Catholic faith. However, their different status had an impact on their religious experiences.
Categories: African American, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Helmes, Winifred G., ed. Notable Maryland Women. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers and the Maryland Bicentennial Commission, 1977.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Kelly, Richard M. "The Maryland Ancestors of Rachel Wells." Southern Friend 16 (Spring-Autumn 1994): 35-63.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Religion, Women, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County
Kessler, Barry. Daughter of Zion: Henrietta Szold & American Jewish Womanhood. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Henrietta Szold and the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore." Generations (Fall 1996): 14-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Henrietta Szold in Church Stained Glass." Generations (Fall 1996): 16.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
McNeil, Betty Ann, D.C., ed. "The Journal of Mother Rose White: The Earliest History of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph's Emmitsburg, Maryland." Vincentian Heritage 18 (1997): 19-56.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Frederick County
Mannard, Joseph Gerard. Maternity of the Spirit:' Women Religious in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1790-1860. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1989.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Metz, Judith, S.C., and Regina Bechtle, S.C. "An Annotated List of the Writings of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton." Vincentian Heritage 18 (1997): 101-38.
Meyers, Debra A. Religion, Women and the Family in Maryland, 1634-1713. Ph.D. diss., University of Rochester, 1997.
Notes: Explores the mentality of seventeenth century Maryland women by studying over 5,000 wills, which give expression to beliefs about property, relationships, gender roles, and religion. Meyer found that religious beliefs affected the values and behavior of colonial Marylanders. For example, Calvinists viewed women as subordinates and Free Will Christians considered women as trusted peers. Religion is a "crucial variable" in understanding early modern societies.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century