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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

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.

Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "Anne Arundel's Famous Green-Meat Cantaloupes." Anne Arundel County History Notes 27 (July 1996): 3-4, 8-10.

Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.

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.

Kelbaugh, Jack. "The Wild Cranberries of Anne Arundel County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (April 1991): 5-6.

Maryland Department of Agriculture. Animal Health Programs in Maryland, 1880-1986. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Department of Agriculture, 1990.

Mumford, Willard R. Strawberries, Peas & Beans: Truck Farming in Anne Arundel County. Linthicum, MD: Ann Arundel County Historical Society, 2000.

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.

Aberbach, Moses. Soloman Baroway: Farmer, Writer, Zionist and Early Baltimore Social Worker. Baltimore: Baltimore Jewish Historical Society, 1990.

Abribat, Beverly. "The Master Guide: A Profile of Charles F. Novak." Weather Gauge 25 (Fall 1989): 16-20.

Acheson, David C. Acheson Country: A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993.

Acton, Lucy. "Janney Runners Upheld Tradition on Last Year's Maryland Million Day." Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred (September/October 1993): 12-17.

Acton, Lucy. "Legend of Bernie Bond Continues to Flourish." Maryland Horse 58 (February 1992): 26-30.

Acton, Lucy. "Sea Hero's Kentucky Derby is Mellon's Crowning Glory." Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred (July/August 1993): 12-19.

Acton, Lucy. "Bob Meyerhoff's 'Magic' Formula." Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred (January/February 1995): 24-30.

Acton, Lucy. "At Home with Thoroughbreds: The Legacy of Bayard Sharp." Maryland Horse 57 (October 1991): 26-31.

Adler, Larry. It Ain't Necessarily So. New York: Grove Press, 1987.
Notes: Autobiography of a Baltimore-born musician.

Althoff, Susanne. "Not Ready to Retire." Annapolis 7 (December 1993): 38-42, 44-45.

Ambrose, Stephen E., and Richard H. Immerman. Milton S. Eisenhower: Educational Statesman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

Andrews, F. Ethel. Miss Ethel Remembers. Shady Side, MD: Shady Side Rural Heritage Society, 1991.

"The Art of Football." Maryland 28 (September/October 1996): 16-19, 38-39.

Badger, Curtis. "Nathan Cobb, Jr." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 12 (Fireside 89-90): 88-91.

"Ben Cohen lives to 94." Maryland Horse 60 (April/May 1994): 65.

Bennett, Joyce. "Edwin Warfield Beitzel: Poet, Southern Agrarian, Renaissance Man." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Spring 1999): 345-53.

Bloch, Michael, ed. Wallis and Edward: Letters, 1931-1937. New York: Summit Books, 1986.
Notes: Wallis Warfield Simpson, born and raised in Baltimore.

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