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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Solomon Nunes Carvalho: Painter, Photographer and Prophet in Nineteenth Century America. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1989.

Steers, Edward. The Escape and Capture of John Wilkes Booth. Brandywine, MD: Marker Tours, 1983.

Tidwell, William A. "Booth Crosses the Potomac: An Exercise in Historical Research." Civil War History 36 (December 1990): 325-33.

"Watson Mondell Perrygo." The Record 31 - 32 (May - September 1984): 5-6.
Notes: Charles County naturalist.

Wineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.

Zebrowski, Carl. "Moral Victory in the Crusade to Clear Mudd." Civil War Times Illustrated 32 (May/June 1993): 14-15.

Greene, Carroll, Jr. "The Search for Joshua Johnson: Early America's Black Portrait Painter." American Visions 3 (February 1988): 14-19.

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.

Walsh, Lorena S. Charles County, Maryland, 1658-1705: A Study of Chesapeake Social and Political Structure. Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1977.

Beckerdite, Luke. "William Buckland Reconsidered: Architectural Carving in Chesapeake Maryland, 1771-1774." Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts 9 (November 1982): 42-88.

Carter, Edward C., II, ed. The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795-1798. Vols. 1,2. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Notes: The first of several volumes in this series, a multi-year effort, published for the Maryland Historical Society where most of Latrobe's records reside. Succeeding volumes encompass Latrobe's other journals, papers and correspondence, architectural and engineering drawings, views, etc.

"Clifton Celebrates Being 250 Years Young." The Preservationist 7 (April-May 1992): 3.

Dilts, James D., and Catharine F. Black, eds. Baltimore's Cast-Iron Buildings and Architectural Ironwork. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991; reprint, 2000.

Dorsey, John, and James D. Dilts. A Guide to Baltimore Architecture. 1973, 1981; 3rd revised edition. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1997.

Elwell, Newton W. Architecture, Furniture, and Interiors of Maryland and Virginia During the Eighteenth Century. Polley & Co., 1897.

Forman, H. Chandlee. Early Buildings and Historic Artifacts in Tidewater Maryland; The Eastern Shore. Easton, MD: Eastern Shore Publishers' Associates, 1989.
Notes: Forman listed himself as "architect and archaeologist." One of the early investigators of St. Mary's City and a dedicated preservationist, he documented many of the 18th and 19th century dwellings on the Eastern Shore. Forman illustrated his books with his own charming drawings and enlivened them with stories of his visits to remote sites, accounts both entertaining and edged with melancholy. See also Radoff, Morris L., <em>The Old Line State</em>.

Hamlin, Talbot. Benjamin Henry Latrobe. New York: Oxford, 1955.
Notes: The Pulitzer prize-winning biography of an architect closely identified with Maryland, and one of the greatest to practice in the state, is still the standard biography.

Inventory of Historic Sites in Calvert County, Charles County, and St. Mary's County. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1980.

Kelly, Jacques. Bygone Baltimore. Norfolk, VA: Donning, 1982.
Notes: The real Baltimore in historic photographs selected and annotated by one of the city's most diligent appreciators. The photographs of buildings are excellent and include many interiors.

"Locust Grove: A Newly Restored Gem for Charles County." The Record 29 (September 1983): 1-3.

Shaw, Susan. "Reviving a Country Colonial in Southern Maryland." Historic Preservation 36 (August 1984): 8-11.
Notes: Restoration of Maxwell Hall, Charles County.

Trostel, Michael F. "Saint Thomas Manor." The Record 28 (May 1983): 1-3.
Notes: Charles County structure.

Atrim, Shane. "A Blue Dog Night?" Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): [39].

"Benedict and Cobb Island." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 38.

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