The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Laughton, Samuel W. "Administrative Problem in Maryland in Liberia, 1836-1851." Maryland Historical Magazine 26 (1941): 325-64.
Categories: African American, Nineteenth Century
Lee, Jean Butenhoff. "The Problem of Slave Community in the Eighteenth Century Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 48 (July 1986): 333-361.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Leffler, Bob. "Baltimore's African-American Baseball Teams Were Big League." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1993): 10-11.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Leggett, Vincent O. "The Black Watermen of Shady Side." Maryland Humanities (March 1999): 8-10.
Categories: African American, Maritime, Anne Arundel County
Leggett, Vincent O. The Chesapeake Bay Through Ebony Eyes. N.p.: Blacks of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 2000.
Levine, Robert S. "'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in 'Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception." American Literature 64 (March 1992): 71-93.
Levy, Peter B. "The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland, during the 1960s." Viet Nam Generation 6, nos. 3-4 (1995): 96-107.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Levy, Peter B. "Civil War on Race Street: The Black Freedom Struggle and White Resistance in Cambridge, Maryland, 1960-1964." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 290-318.
Notes: The author examines Cambridge, Maryland in order to gain a local perspective on the civil rights movement. The author sets out to understand the movement at the grass roots level, instead of focusing on national leadership and civil rights legislation. Cambridge has been consistently overlooked in studies of the civil rights movement, and the author wonders if this has been the case since events in Cambridge do not fit neatly into typical historical narratives of the movement.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Lewis, Reginald F. "Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?": How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire. New York: Wiley, 1995.
Lewis, Ronald L. Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715-1865. Contributions in Labor History, no. 6. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History
Lewis, Ronald Loran. "Slave Families at Early Chesapeake Ironworks." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (April 1978): 169-79.
Notes: The author examines the self-determination on the part of blacks enslaved as ironworkers in order to counter the view of the fragmented black family as espoused by scholars such as E. Franklin Frazier and Daniel P. Moynihan. The author examines such Maryland ironworks as Northampton Furnace and Patuxent Iron Works. Ironworkers were provided opportunities for "overwork" - that is, working overtime in return for cash or supplies. The money allowed ironworkers and their families an improved standard of living. In addition, ironworkers did not experience strict controls over their free time, home life, or leisure activities. These factors, the author feels, contributed to a stable family structure among enslaved ironworkers.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Lewis, Ronald Loran. Slavery in the Chesapeake Iron Industry, 1716-1865. Ph.D. diss., University of Akron, 1974.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Lewis, Ronald Loran. "Slavery on Chesapeake Iron Plantations Before the American Revolution." Journal of Negro History 59 (July 1974): 242-54.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Lindsay, Isabel B. Participation of Negroes in the Establishment of Welfare Services 1865-1900 with special reference to District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1952.
Linthicum, Sweetser. "John Henry Robinson: Some Additional Comments." Anne Arundel County History Notes 17 (April 1986): 13.
Lofton, John. "Enslavement of the Southern Mind: 1775-1825." Journal of Negro History 43 (1958): 132-139.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
McConnell, Roland C. "Frederick Douglass--Invincible Freedom Fighter--And the Opening of the Douglass Institute." Maryland Pendulum (Summer 1991): 3-4.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
McConnell, Roland C. "A Small College and the Archival Record." Journal of Negro Education 32 (1963): 84-86.
Categories: African American, Education
McConnell, Roland C. Three Hundred and Fifty Years: Chronology of the Afro-American in Maryland, 1634-1984. Annapolis, MD: Commission on Afro-American History and Culture, 1985.
Categories: African American, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
McCusker, John J., and Russell R. Menard. The Economy of British America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
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
McDaniel, George William. Preserving the People's History: Traditional Black Material Culture in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Southern Maryland. Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1979.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
McDaniel, George W. "Voices from the Past: Black Builders and Their Buildings." In Three Centuries of Maryland Architecture, 79-90. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1982.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
McDonald, Leib. "The Christiana Riot." History Trails 31 (Winter 1996-Spring 1997): 9-11.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
McElvey, Kay Najiyyah. Early Black Dorchester, 1776-1870: A History of the Struggle of African-Americans in Dorchester County, Maryland, to be Free to Make Their Own Choices. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991.
Notes: The author examines selected events relating to Dorchester County's black population between 1776 and 1870 and their struggle to make their own political, economic, religious, and educational choices. The author also focuses on the enslaved and free leaders who led the fight for self-determination. The author hopes that her text will be used in high school classrooms as a local history of black Dorchester County.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore