The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Miles, Priscilla. Roland Park: Four Walking Tours and an Informal History. Baltimore: N.P.S., 1986.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Miller, Mark B. Mount Washington, Baltimore Suburb: A History Revealed Through Pictures and Narrative. Baltimore: GBS Publishers, 1980.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Miller, Roger. Baltimore: A Portrait. Baltimore: Image Pub., 1983.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Morris, Elizabeth Willson. Urban Redevelopment and the Emerging Community. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Mount Washington in Quotations, Part I." History Trails 28 (Autumn 1993-Winter 1994): 1-8; Part II, 28 (Spring-Summer 1994): 9-16.
Notes: A compilation of small Mt. Washington articles from a variety of Maryland newspapers.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Murphy, Jeanne Payne. "The Letters of Lafayette Buckler from 1859 to 1884." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (March 1982): 421-32; (April 1982): 433-44; (May 1982): 445-54.
Notes: Transcriptions of a series of 41 letters written by Lafayette to Victoria McGinley Buckler, his wife, as they traveled between their home in St. Mary's and Baltimore. Two letters are also included written by Victoria. The letters deal with the details of daily life and the relationship of this couple. A sizeable introduction proceeds the letters and places the letters in the context of place, time, and family.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, St. Mary's County
Murray, William A. The Unheralded Heroes of Baltimore's Big Blazes: A Five Year Report 1969-1974. Baltimore: E. John Schmitz and Sons, Inc., 1974.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Nast, Leonara Heilig, Laurence N. Krause, and R. C. Monk, eds. Baltimore. A Living Renaissance. Baltimore: Historic Baltimore Society, Inc., 1982.
Notes: An eclectic mix of over eighty essays, authored by a broad spectrum of individuals, on topics that illustrate the renaissance that Baltimore experienced during the 1960s and 1970s. Organized under such broad topics as "Baltimore Builds","Social Perspective","The Arts", and "What Makes Baltimore Baltimore" the broad range of subjects covered include Baltimore night life, public housing, television and radio, football, aging services, and influential political and community figures. Includes a brief chronology of the City's redevelopment, 1937-1981.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Neighborhood Discovery: An Elementary Guide for the Investigation of Local History. Baltimore: Baltimore Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation and Baltimore Public Schools Office of Gifted and Talented Program Services, 1982.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Nurnberger, Ralph D. "The Great Baltimore Deluge of 1817." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 405-8.
Notes: Calamities are popular topics for local historians. This discussion of a major flood of the Jones Falls, in Old Town Baltimore, includes an eyewitness account.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Olesker, Michael. Michael Olesker's Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Notes: Selection of columns from the <em>News American</em> and <em>Baltimore Sun</em>, covering the years 1979-1994. His topics include politicians, sports, eccentrics. He presents a loving picture of Baltimore during the last quarter of the twentieth century without overlooking the problems, such as crime, drugs, and poverty, which plague the city.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publisher Company, 1976.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Revised edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Notes: The product of a geographer, this excellent history of Baltimore focuses on its physical growth as an urban center. Special emphasis is placed on how the city, and its inhabitants, handled the changes brought about by city growth.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Orser, Ed. Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
Notes: In a ten year period, 1955-1965, the western community of Edmondson Village completely changed its population. As socially mobile blacks moved in, whites, feeling threatened and displaced, abandoned the community. Edmondson is the story of a phenomena that is quite common in many urban areas. The article includes some discussion of rowhouse development.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Orser, W. Edward. "The Marking of a Baltimore Rowhouse Community: The Edmondson Avenue Area, 1915-1945." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Fall 1985): 203-227.
Notes: Edmondson Village developed as a late street car, early automobile, suburban community. It was originally a white middle income neighborhood. Its highly differentiated character made it very fragile and it was very open to change.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Owens, Hamilton. Baltimore on the Chesapeake. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore City
Page, Clint. "Stone Hill." Baltimore 68 (February 1975): 16-19.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore City
Parsons, Richard, comp. "Tours for Families or Groups in Metropolitan Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Spring 1977): 1-58.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Harford County, Howard County
Peerless, David J. Baltimore Citygames. Baltimore: Maclay and Associates, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore City
Power, Garrett. Parceling Out Land in Baltimore, 1632-1796. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1994.
Notes: Reprints of two <em>Maryland Historical Magazine</em> articles with the same title. Using a variety of sources, both primary and secondary, Power traces the chain of title, up to the point of incorporation, of the 2000 acres of Baltimore Town, Jones Town, and Fell's Point, the communities that became Baltimore City.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Power, Garrett. "Entail in Two Cities: A Comparative Study of Long Term Leases in Birmingham, England and Baltimore, Maryland, 1700-1900." Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 9 (Winter 1994): 315-24.
Power, Garrett. "High Society: The Building Height Limitation on Baltimore's Mt. Vernon Place." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Fall 1984): 197-219.
Notes: In 1904 Maryland's first zoning law was passed. It disallowed the construction of any non-church building over 70 feet in height within one block of Baltimore's Washington Monument. This act, which was actually a move of selfish interest of the part of developers who were then marketing the Mount Vernon area to Baltimore's aristocracy, ended up being a major reason why twentieth centuries developers were thwarted and the area preserved in its nineteenth century landscape.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Power, Garrett. "Parceling out Land in the Vicinity of Baltimore: 1632-1796, Part 1." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Winter 1992): 453-466.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Power, Garrett. "Parceling out Land in the Vicinity of Baltimore: 1632-1796, Part 2." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Summer 1993): 150-80.
Pruzan, Jeffrey S. "Shadows of Civil War Baltimore." Civil War Times Illustrated 35 (September/October 1995): 24-27, 69-72.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War