The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Anderson, George M., S. J. "Growing Sugar Cane in Montgomery County: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Experiment by James W. Anderson." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Summer 1984): 134-41.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Anderson, George M. "Growth, Civil War, and Change: The Montgomery County Agricultural Society, 1850-1876." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Winter 1991): 396-406.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Anderson, George M. "The Montgomery County Agricultural Society: The Beginning Years, 1846-1850." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Winter 1986): 305-15.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1925.
Notes: Mentions Maryland only regarding farming in 1840 and peach orchards, but is useful since so many Pennsylvania Germans settled in Frederick County.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "Anne Arundel's Famous Green-Meat Cantaloupes." Anne Arundel County History Notes 27 (July 1996): 3-4, 8-10.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Anne Arundel County
Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1933.
Notes: From barley to wool, Gray's great work is unsurpassed in its detail about farming from Maryland's founding to the Civil War.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Kelbaugh, Jack. "The Wild Cranberries of Anne Arundel County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (April 1991): 5-6.
Mumford, Willard R. Strawberries, Peas & Beans: Truck Farming in Anne Arundel County. Linthicum, MD: Ann Arundel County Historical Society, 2000.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Anne Arundel County, Other
Pursell, Carroll W., Jr. "The Administration of Science in the Department of Agriculture, 1933-1940." Agricultural History 42 (1968): 231-240.
Notes: Henry A. Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of Agriculture, championed scientific research because he himself was scientist a hybrid corn breeder. Using emergency relief funds from the National Recovery Administration, Wallace, in 1934, transformed the small experiment station in Beltsville into a great national research center. The Bankhead-Jones Act then funded the basic research agenda.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Althoff, Susanne. "Not Ready to Retire." Annapolis 7 (December 1993): 38-42, 44-45.
Anderson, George M., S. J. "The Approach of the Civil War as Seen in the Letters of James and Mary Anderson of Rockville." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Summer 1993): 189-202.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Andrews, F. Ethel. Miss Ethel Remembers. Shady Side, MD: Shady Side Rural Heritage Society, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Becraft, Leonard A. "Greenwood, One of our Oldest Homes." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 1, 7.
Becraft, Leonard Allen. "The Greenwood Story-Part II." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 1, 5, 4.
Brigham, Dave. "Born on the Edge." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 1, 4.
Canby, Tom. "Jack Bentley: No Ordinary Ball Player." Legacy 17 (Summer 1997): 1, 7.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Cissel, Anne W. "Those Amazing Keys: Francis Scott and F. Scott Key Fitzgerald." Montgomery County Story 37 (August 1994): 297-308.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Clark, Charles B. "Correction in the Article on Charles Alexander Warfield Commemorations, October 8, 1994." Legacy 38 (February 1995): 6.
Clark, Margaret. "Before Meade Village: The Charles Clark Farm." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 20.
Categories: Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Brooke Beall, First Clerk of the Court for Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 32 (November 1989): 83-92.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Montgomery County
Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Land Speculators: James Butler and John Bradford." Montgomery County Story 36 (November 1993): 273-84.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Montgomery County
Crook, Mary Charlotte. "Walter Perry Johnson." Montgomery County Story 35 (May 1992): 201-11.
Crook, Mary Charlotte. "The Two Avenel Farms and the Rapley Family." Montgomery County Story 39 (May 1996): 381-91.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "Larkin Rodolphus Shipley: Northern Anne Arundel County Farmer-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (July 1998): 3-4, 14-15; "Part II-Crisis and Recovery." Anne Arundel County History Notes 30 (October 1998): 5-6, 11-12.
Categories: Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County