The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Edwards, Doris W., and Mary K. Mannix. Selected Genealogical Resources in the Howard County Historical Society Library. Columbia, MD: Howard County Genealogical Society, 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Calvert County, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Cecil County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Howard County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Hires, Will E. "Profile of the R. E, Gibson Library and Information Center and Mr. Robert S. Gresehover, Director." The Cutting Edge 49 (December 2000): 9, 11.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Johnson, Ruth Ann. "Cecil County Libraries: Guardians of Minds and Morals." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 59 (September 1991): 6-7.
Manning, John, and Stanley White. "Upper Bay Museum." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 61 (April 1992): 5-6.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Cecil County
Mannix, Mary K. "The Automation of the Frances Louise Day Postcard Collection of the Howard County Historical Society." Popular Culture in Libraries 3 (1995): 187-197.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Mannix, Mary. "Preliminary Survey of the Cartographic Records of Howard County, Maryland." The Portolan: Washington Map Society 36 (Summer 1996): 9-20.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Howard County
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
Radoff, Morris L. "The Maryland Records in the Revolutionary War." American Archivist 37 (April 1974): 277-85.
Notes: Governmental records are always at risk during times of war. Maryland's records were in an even more precarious position during the Revolutionary War, the Maryland State House was under construction. Radoff discusses the movement of Maryland's records in attempts to keep them safe from harm. Also discussed in the theft of Cecil County land records by British troops.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Cecil County, Prince George's County
Taylor, Morton F. "The Sheriff John F. De Witt Military Museum Opens." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 62 (September 1992): 7.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Twentieth Century, Cecil County
Arnold, Joseph L. The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1971.
Notes: Considering the variety of Maryland's various planned communities - Columbia, Bowie, Greenbelt and Roland Park - it is important to appreciate how each was distinctive. At its conception, Greenbelt, along with several other communities planned and built by Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration, represented the social experimentation associated with New Deal. According to the author: "the greenbelt towns were built to demonstrate that urban expansion by the construction of complete new towns would provide superior safety, convenience, beauty, and a deep sense of community spirit - all at a new low cost. These new suburban towns would therefore provide a superior environment for families heretofore condemned to live in urban slums. New towns would stop urban decay and end economic segregation of the suburbs." (p. xii) What was radical was the comprehensive scope of the enterprise, the creation of co-operative businesses to serve the community, and the fact that the federal government maintained ownership. This study ends with the implementation of Public Law 65 (1949) which transferred ownership of most of the houses to a private co-operative.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County, Prince George's County
Garrett, Jerre. "A History of the Elkton Police Department." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 65 (September 1993): 1, 3-5.
Categories: Politics and Law, Cecil County
Brooks, Richard. "Social Planning in Columbia." Journal of the American Institute of Planners 37 (1971): 373-378.
Notes: An evaluation of the planned community of Columbia at an early point in its development, the article contends that the transition from vision to implementation involves a series of social dilemmas. These included the shift from company town to "thriving democratic polity," the potential conflict between the vision of a new form of urban community versus the prevailing attraction of the suburban ideal, and questions about the appropriate balance between residential and commercial functions in a presumably "post-industrial" society. Brooks wonders whether the failure by the planner and many early residents to face up to the challenges of these dilemmas may represent a "heroic failure" for Columbia.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County
DeSocio, Chuck. "Cecil County Plays Ball." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 70 (Spring 1995): 1, 4-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Hotchkiss, Horace L. "A Visit to Rose Hill in the 1850's." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 61 (April 1992): 7-8.
Kelso, Fred. "The Port Deposit Black Sox." Bulletin of The Historical Society of Cecil County, 77/78 (Autumn/Winter 1998): 10-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Cecil County
McIntosh, J. Rieman. A History of the Elkridge Fox Hunting Club, The Elkridge Hounds, the Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club 1878-1978. Monkton, MD: Published by the author, 1978.
"Recipes and Home Cures from the 1840's." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County. 55 (January 1992): 1-2.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Robinson, Dorothy. "The Elkton Debating Society." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County. 63 (December 1992): 4-5.
Williamson, Elly. "Winter: A Season of Celebration." Bulletin of The Historical Society of Cecil County 80 (Winter 1998): 1, 8-11.
Astarita, Patti, and Jim Tomlin. "The C & D Canal." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 12 (Sunshine 1990): 152-55.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County
"Cecil County Postmasters-1853." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 66 (December 1993): 3, 7.
DeBoard, Kermit. "The Philadephia Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 81 (Spring/Summer 1999): 1, 7.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Cecil County, Eastern Shore