The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Orser, Edward, and Joseph Arnold. Catonsville, 1880-1940: From Village to Suburb. Norfolk, VA: Donning Pubishing Co., 1989.
Notes: This photographic history traces the history of Catonsville, on Baltimore County's west side, from the 1880s, when the village center served the needs of travelers on Frederick Road and the surrounding agricultural area, as well as afforded sites for summer homes for some of Baltimore's elite, to 1940, when growth, development, and transportation links heightened its suburban character within the Baltimore metropolitan region. The volume includes research evidence on the social make-up of the community, such as the impact of German and Irish immigrants and the role of its historic African American community.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Parsons, Richard. "A 19th Century Social Service." History Trails 19 (Spring 1985): 9-12.
Parsons, Richard. "Almshouse Revisited." History Trails 21 (Winter 1986-1987): 5-8; (Spring 1987): 9-10.
Reutter, Mark. Sparrows Point: Making Steel-the Rise and Ruin of America's Industrial Might. New York: Summit Books, 1988.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Calvert County
Simkins, Katherine S. "Monkton View Farm, Part II." History Trails 22 (Summer 1988): 13-16.
Waesche, James F. Crowning the Gravelly Hill: A History of the Roland Park-Guilford-Homeland District. Baltimore: Maclay and Associates, 1987.
Notes: Waesche chronicles the history of the north Baltimore communities developed by the Roland Park Company in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which set the standard for elite suburban-style residency in the era. Under the direction of Edward Bouton, the three adjacent communities bore the stamp of Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape firm, which did some of the planning. The volume focuses upon building and development, with some attention to the social life of suburbs intended by Bouton to "catch the whole of the better class suburban development of the city."
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Akehurst, S. Virginia, and Eva E. Akehurst. "The Yeoho Road." History Trails 8, no. 1 (1974): 1-3.
Haile, Elmer R., Jr. "Post Office in the Long Green Area." History Trails 10 (Autumn 1975): 1-2.
Kanarek, Harold. The Mid-Atlantic Engineers: A History of the Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1774-1974. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1978?].
Notes: The Baltimore harbor and shipping and Maryland's internal improvements are covered.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Van Horn, Martin K., and Robert L. Williams. Green Spring Accommodation: 130 Years of Railway History in the Green Spring Valley, Baltimore County, Maryland, 1832-1962. Polo, IL: Transportation Trails, 1996.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Acton, Lucy. "Maryland's Longest-active Woman Trainer Is All Keyed up with Two Stakes Winners." Maryland Horse 61 (April/May 1995): 46-48.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Olson, Karen Faith. When a Woman Has a Working Life: The Transformation of Gender Relations in a Steelmaking Community. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1995.
Notes: Captures the social world of steelworkers' wives in Dundalk, Maryland, through sixty interviews. A planned industrial community from the 1880s, steel dominated life in Dundalk. Male work culture, swing shifts, and high wages served company needs and kept women out of the paid labor force. A decline in steelmaking forced women to "get a working life," which has altered role expectations and gender relations in that community. Class bias and racial divisions are also factors in this transformation.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Russo, Elise Boyce. "Elizabeth Solter jumps into arena of Olympic hopefuls." Maryland Horse 61 (February/March 1995): 16-20.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Sarvella, Patricia, ed. Baltimore County Women. Towson, MD: Baltimore County Chapter, American Association of University Women, 1976.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Torchia, Robert Wilson. "Eliza Ridgely and the Ideal of American Womanhood." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Winter 1995): 404-23.
Notes: Argues that Thomas Sully's painting <em>Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely</em> was a propaganda piece to counter the British stereotype of American women as "being unsophisticated, ignorant, and devoid of social graces" (406). This portrait of fifteen-year-old Ridgely shows grace, poise, feminity, and other traits (including instrumental music) associated with British of true womanhood.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Breihan, John R. "Aero Acres: America's First Planned Community 1941." Air & Space/Smithsonian 14 (no. 2, 1999): 36-43.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Other
Eaton, H. B. "Bladensburg." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research [Great Britain] 55 (1977): 8-14.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Prince George's County, Other, War of 1812
George, Christopher T. Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2000.
Categories: Maritime, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region, War of 1812
Hayden, Emily Spencer, photog., and Patricia Dockman Anderson, comp. "Portfolio." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (1996): 65-72.
Categories: County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Other
Hollifield, William. "The Millennium and the Census 1900-2000: The Allure of the Numbers." History Trails 33 and 34 (Millennium Issue): 2-11.
Categories: General, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Other
Lancaster, Kent. "Chattel Slavery at Hampton/Northampton, Baltimore County." Maryland Historical Magazine 95 (Winter 2000): 409-27.
Categories: African American, Baltimore County, Other
Peterson, Charles E. Notes on Hampton Mansion. 2nd edition, revised, College Park, MD: National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection, 2000.
Steffen, Charles G. "The Rise of the Independent Merchant in the Chesapeake: Baltimore County, 1660-1769." Journal of American History 76 (1989): 9-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County, Other
Welsh, William Jeffrey, David Curtis Skaggs, and Donald K. Enholm. "In Pursuit of the 'Golden Mean': a Case Study of Mid-eighteenth-century Frontier Anglican Preaching." Anglican and Episcopal History 57 (1988):176-198.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County, Other
Williams, Glenn F. "The Bladensburg Races." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 12 (no. 1, 1999): 58-65.
Categories: Military, Other, War of 1812