The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
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
"A Drive Through Recent History: The Route 140 Bypass." Carroll County History Journal 40 (Summer 1989): 3-6.
McGuinness, Marci Lynn. Along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad From Cumberland to Uniontown. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
Reaves, Ronald E. "Telephone Service Comes to Maryland . . . Baltimore, Hagerstown, Westminster." Cracker Barrel 18 (December 1988): 20-22.
Categories: County and Local History, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Carroll County, Washington County
Ayers, Bonnie Joe. "Sadie Miller." Maryland 17 (Autumn 1984): 39-41.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Carroll County
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
"Derma Marie Yeiser Williams." Carroll County History Journal 44 (November 1993): 3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Women, Twentieth Century, Carroll 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
Levering, Patricia W., and Ralph B. Levering. "Women in Relief: The Carroll County Children's Aid Society in the Great Depression." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Winter 1977): 534-46.
Notes: Examines how a rural county in Mid-Maryland dealt with the Great Depression in the early 1930s. Before the New Deal and state programs were implemented, responsibility for aid fell to private organizations. The Children's Aid Society, ran by women, helped Carroll Countians survive the Great Depresssion. The authors hypothesize that rural areas with self-help operations endured the depression better and longer that urban areas.
Categories: Women, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
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
"'Maggie' Mehring's Diary - 1863." News Letter [Historical Society Carroll County, Maryland, Inc.,] 27 (March 1977): [2-4]; (October 1977): [2-4].
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.