The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Rollo, Vera F. The Black Experience in Maryland. Lanham, MD: Maryland Historical Press, 1980.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Scalia, Rosalia. "Maryland's Freedom-Fighters: The Mitchell Family." Maryland 28 (February 1996): 34-36.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law
"Selected Readings on Afro-Americans and Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 5 (Fall/Winter 1985): 6-7.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Shugg, Wallace. "The Great Escape of 'Tunnel Joe' Holmes." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 480-93.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy
Silverman, Albert J. "The Chesapeake Blacks of Nova Scotia." Baltimore Sun Magazine, 22 September 1974, 30-31.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Smith, Helen Wampler. Montgomery Blair and the Negro. M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1967.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Stansbury, Russell. "Biographical Sketch [of] Clayton Crewell Stansbury." Harford Historical Bulletin 15 (Winter 1983): 7-9.
Notes: Havre de Grace community leader, ca. 1920-1950.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Harford County
Thornton, Alvin. Like a Phoenix I'll Rise: An Illustrated History of African Americans in Prince George's County, Maryland, 1696-1996. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company, 1997.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Walsh, Lorena S. "Rural African Americans in the Constitutional Era in Maryland, 1776-1810." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 327-41.
Notes: The author examines the changing working conditions and differing experiences of slaves on six Maryland plantations during the Constitutional Era. Tasks varied by plantation, as did the family life of the enslaved population. The author uses correspondence and plantation records to attempt to reconstruct the daily lives of the enslaved on these plantations.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Walston, Mark. "A Survey of Slave Housing in Montgomery County." The Montgomery County Story 27 (August 1984): 111-126.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Wilson, Emily Wanda. The Public Education of Negroes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1948.
Categories: African American, Education, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Windley, Lathan A., comp. Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790. 4 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Wlazlowski, Tiffany. "Harriet Tubman: Moses of her People." Maryland 28 (February 1996): 32-34.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century
Wright, James M. The Free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860. Vol. 917, no. 3. Columbia University Studies in History. New York: Columbia University, 1921.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Zubritsky, John. Fighting Men: A Chronicle of Three Black Civil War Soldiers. Upland, PA: Diane Publishing Company, 1997.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Bourne, Michael. Inventory of Historic Sites in Caroline County. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1980.
Weeks, Christopher. Inventory of Historic Sites in Caroline County. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1981.
Abbe, Leslie Morgan. "The Talbott House and Its People." Montgomery County Story 20 (February 1977): 2-8.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Anderson, George M. "The Civil War Courtship of Richard Mortimer Williams and Rose Anderson of Rockville." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 119-138.
Notes: The story of the couple's courtship taken from Williams's writings. Insight is offered into life in Rockville, the county seat, during that period.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Baden, Jacqueline Heppes. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Place Apart. 2 vols. Rockville, MD: Travel on Tape, Book Division, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Ball, Walter V. "The History of Mount Pleasant." Montgomery County Story 20 (February 1977): 8-12.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
"A Bay for All Seasons." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): F28-F29, F31, F33.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Bayley, Ned. "Colesville-In the Beginning." Montgomery County Story 36 (February 1993): 237-48.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Beitzell, Edwin W., ed. "Diary of Dr. Joseph L. McWilliams 1868-1875." Chronicles of St. Mary's 26 (March 1978): 359-66; (May 1978): 375-82; (June 1978): 383-89; (September 1978): 411-15.
Notes: Transcriptions of a mid-nineteenth century diary. Most entries are very short.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County: Part II: Two Tours and Two Families." Anne Arundel County History Notes 24 (October 1992): 4, 9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County