The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Barquist, Rose, et al. A Source Book for Early Western Maryland History and Genealogy. Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing House, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Montgomery County
Bowers, Deborah. "On the Road Again: The Bookmobile in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 28-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Harford County
"City of Cumberland Establishes Archive." In Context 3 (Spring 1994): 3.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Live Wire Staff. "BSM: 25 Years and Still Going." Live Wire 22 (April-June 1991): 1, 3-7.
Notes: Baltimore Streetcar Museum.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
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.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
Michael, Douglas O., comp., and ed. Western Maryland Materials in Allegany and Garrett County Libraries. Cumberland, MD: Allegany County Local History Program, 1977.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Munn, Robert F. The Coal Industry in America: A Bibliography and Guide to Sources. 2nd ed. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Library, 1977.
Notes: Numerous references to Maryland.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Papenfuse, Edward C., Susan A. Collins, and Christopher N. Allan. A Guide to the Maryland Hall of Records: Local Judicial and Administrative Records in Microform. Vol. 1. Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1978.
Notes: Records of Allegany County through Baltimore County and City.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Allegany County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Chesapeake Region
Perlman, Nancy. "BMI Research Center Officially Opens." Nuts and Bolts 10 (Summer 1992): [5].
Notes: This detailed, single page, article provides an excellent introduction to the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Industry's research center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Price, Mary Jo. "Unique Research Collections: Frostburg State's Ort Library." Journal of the Alleghenies 34 (1998): 100-4.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Ray, Donald, ed. Western Maryland Materials in Allegany and Garrett County Libraries. Cumberland, MD: Allegany County Community College, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Crosby, Anthony E., Jr. "Rough-Riding in Western Maryland: Teddy Roosevelt on the Political Stump in 1899." Journal of the Alleghenies 28 (1992): 35-48.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Way, Peter. Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Notes: This is a comprehensive examination of the digging of North American canals and the ensuing conflicts between labor and management. Working conditions and the organization of work changed drastically between 1780 and 1860. Much of the labor was provided by Irish workers, who were considered to be more expendable than slaves in the Middle Atlantic states. While other studies focus on their propensity to riot and fight amongst themselves in the 1830s, Way argues that this was due less to ethnic rivalries than to economic conditions and management's shabby treatment of labor. The records of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company provide much of the information upon which this study is based.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Bender, Thomas. "Law, Economy, and Social Values in Jacksonian America: A Maryland Case Study." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Winter 1976): 484-97.
Notes: Bender examines the legal and economic assumptions underlying the conflict between the Chesapeake Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1820s and 1830s to illustrate his argument about the triumph of "modernization" in the period. The conflict pitted the interests of the canal company to protect rights granted to it by its prior charter for westward development against the interests of the railroad in developing a competitive alternative. While the Maryland Court of Appeals applied conservative assumptions in ruling for the former, supporting the principle of monopoly, the state legislature, believing that competition advanced the interests of the state, applied "modernization" assumptions to force a compromise which permitted the railroad to proceed.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Clark, Ella E., and Thomas F. Hahn, eds. Life on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 1859. York, PA: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Conway, M. Margaret, Jay A. Stevens, and Robert G. Smith. "The Relation Between Media Use and Children's Civic Awareness." Journalism Quarterly 52 (1975): 531-538.
Categories: Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman, eds. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Notes: Essays on aspects of the social history of Baltimore provide case studies of social issues and neighborhood dynamics. Paired chapters first consider the lives of ordinary B&O Railroad workers involved in the railroad strike of 1877, then examine the powerful family of B&O magnate John Work Garrett. Chapters on work consider the area's mill villages, the garment industry, and union activity. Studies of neighborhoods address the history of Fells Point in terms of race and ethnicity and racial change in west Baltimore.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Keatly, J. K. "From Maryland's Past: Lefty Grove." Maryland 19 (Summer 1987): 27.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Meyers, Francis J. "Wild Dreams and Harsh Realities: Lefty Grove and the Life of Organized Baseball in Allegany County, 1900-1939." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Summer 1992): 146-57.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Mills, Eric. Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
White, Roger. "Round Bay Resort and 'Mount Misery'." Anne Arundel County History Notes 19 (January 1988): 3-4.
Notes: The article reprints an account by L.A. Burck of an 1888 visit to the Anne Arundel County resort of Round Bay on the Severn River. Burck describes his trip from Baltimore's Camden Station on the B&A Railroad to the waterside park and its nearby promontory, Mount Misery, a Civil War-era lookout where Union soldiers watched for blockade runners.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
"30th Anniversary of B-52 Crash." Glades Star 7 (March 1994): 338.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
"The 1900 'State Road'." Glades Star 7 (December 1994): 485-87.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Acton, Lucy. "The Museum of the Iron Horse." Baltimore 67 (May 1974): 38ff.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore City