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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Fischer, David Hackett. "John Beale Bordley, Daniel Boorstin, and the American Enlightenment." Journal of Southern History 28 (1962): 326-342.

Harrar, H. Joanne. "Maryland: Abraham Milton The Farmer's Companion 1761." In Thirteen Colonial Americana: A Selection of Publications Issued in the British Provinces of North America During the Final Half-Century of the Colonial Era. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1977.

Harris, Dolly. "And the Band Played On-The History and Preservation of the Tolchester Park Bandstand." Weather Gauge 28 (Spring 1992): 20-24.

Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part One: Come Aboard the Showboat for Mesmerizing Maudlin Melodrama." Old Kent 3 (September 1987): 1-3.

Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part Two: Showtime on the River Landing, Come and See the Show!" Old Kent 3 (December 1987): 1-2.

Bryan, Jennifer A. "The Tilghman Papers." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Fall 1993): 297-99.

Fusonie, Alan, and William Hauser. "Climate History at the National Agricultural Library." Agricultural History 63 (Spring 1989): 36-50.

Fusonie, Alan E. "The History of the National Agricultural Library." Agricultural History 62 (Spring 1988): 189-207.

Gibb, James G. "Using Calvert County's Agricultural Censuses: 1850-1880." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 9-17.
Notes: A useful introduction to an underutlized resource. This article would be worthwhile reading for anyone interested in agricultural censuses whether or not their area of study was Calvert County.

A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Kent County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.

Maryland Statistical Abstract. Annapolis: Department of Economic Development, 1967-.
Notes: This source provides data on nearly every aspect of Maryland and the live's of its citizens.

"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Sotterley Plantation." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 27.

Mohrhardt, Foster E. "The Library of the United States Department of Agriculture." The Library Quarterly 27 (April 1957): 61-82.

Noll, Linda. "The Steppingstone Museum: A Step Back in Time." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 145-47.

Vansant, Thelma M., Elizabeth Westcott Bryan, and Frances S. Clendaniel. "The 50th Anniversary of the Historical Society of Kent County." Old Kent 2 (December 1986): 1-5.

Wiser, P. Vivian. "Select Bibliography on History of Agriculture in Maryland." National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, Associates NAL Today 1 (October 1976): 55-85.

Brown, C. Christopher. "Democracy's Incursion into the Eastern Shore: The 1870 Election in Chestertown." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 338-46.

Johnstone, Gene. "How a Kent County Senator Saved Andrew Johnson's Presidency." Old Kent 16 (Spring 1999): 3.

Berryman, Jack W. "John S. Skinner's American Farmer: Breeding and Racing the Maryland 'Blood Horse,' 1819-1829." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Summer 1981): 159-73.

Berryman, Jack W. "John Stuart Skinner and the American Farmer, 1819-1829: An Early Proponent of Rural Sports." Associates NAL Today, new series, 1 (October 1976): 11-32.

Bishko, Lucretia Ramsey. "Lafayette and the Maryland Agricultural Society:1824-1832." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 45-67.

Boccaccio, Mary. "Maryland at the St. Louis World's Fair." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 347-354.
Notes: Boccaccio profiles the Maryland state exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, organized to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase one hundred years earlier. Drawing upon papers in the library of the University of Maryland College Park, she chronicles the efforts of William Amoss, who assembled the agricultural and horticultural products for a display which celebrated the state's western, southern, and central regions.

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