The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Sharrer, G. Terry. "The Patuxent: Maryland's Heartland River." Maryland 21 (Spring 1989): 6-23.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Anne Arundel County, Charles County
Stranahan, Susan Q. Susquehanna, River of Dreams. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Cecil County, Harford County
Valentino, David Wayne. Tectonics of the Lower Susquehanna River Region, Southeastern Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland: Late Proterozoic Rifting to Late Paleozoic Dextral Transpression. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993.
Categories: Environment, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Cecil County, Harford County
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Chambers, Tom. "Harford County Newspapers of the 19th Century." Harford Historical Bulletin 50 (Fall 1991): 87-88.
Notes: County and local newspapers are a vast untapped historical resource. A series of short articles by Tom Chambers demonstrates the important function of county newspapers in local politics during the upheavals of the Civil War era. Harford County, like many other Maryland rural areas, harbored lively competition between newspapers that reflected the political divisions of citizens. For a more extensive study of another part of Maryland , see Dickson Preston's <em>Newspapers of Maryland's Eastern Shore</em>.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Chambers, Tom. "Harford's Rich Newspaper Heritage: Harford County Newspapers Established During the 19th Century." Harford Historical Bulletin 50 (Fall 1991): 89-95.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Chambers, Tom. "Political Upheaval Brings Upheaval in Harford County Newspaper Publishing." Harford Historical Bulletin 50 (Fall 1991): 113-27.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Chambers, Tom. "The Travail of Early Newspapers in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 50 (Fall 1991): 96-100.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Kracke, Robert D., and Carol Bench. "Through the Cracks of History: Those Shape Notes." Harford Historical Bulletin (Summer 1984): 38-46.
Notes: Hymnal scores and their use in Harford County.
Categories: Music and Theater, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Bowers, Deborah. "On the Road Again: The Bookmobile in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 28-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Bowers, Deborah. "A One-Hundred Year History of Libraries in Harford County from 1885." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 3-27.
Notes: In the late nineteenth century many of Harford County's communities formed library organizations. Following the 1945 Maryland Library Aid Act a Harford County library system was established. At the time of this article Harford County has a growing public library system with a good number of branches spread across the county.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Brandt, Thirza M. "The Historical Society's Photographic Archives Collection." Harford Historical Bulletin 61 (Summer 1994): 133-40.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Brown, John E., comp. "Articles from The Harford Historical Bulletin Concerning Harford County History, Arranged According to Historical Periods." Harford Historical Bulletin 56 (Spring 1993): 58-71.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Dowell, Susan Stiles. "The Harvey Ladew Manor House & Gardens." Maryland Magazine 17 (Summer 1985): 42-45.
Notes: A history of Harvey Ladew and his house and garden, now open to the public. The topiary garden is considered one of the nation's finest.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Harford County
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Charles County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Charles County
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Harford County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Harford County
Hodge, David C. "The Hooker Collection: Inventory and Annotations." Harford Historical Bulletin 61 (Summer 1994): 117-32.
Notes: Descriptions of 62 images from a glass plate negative collection owned by the Historical Society of Harford County.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Noll, Linda. "The Steppingstone Museum: A Step Back in Time." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 145-47.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
"Revolutionary War Museums and Sites of Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Summer 2001): 25.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Science and Technology, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Frederick County, Harford County, Washington County
The Southern Maryland Collections. Section 1, June 1979 edition: The Book Collections. LaPlata, MD: Charles County Community College, 1979.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Young, Dorothy Hays. "The Archives of the Historical Society of Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin (Winter 1985): 1-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Chrismer, James E. "Harford County's Role in the Development of the Bill of Rights." Harford Historical Bulletin 52 (Spring 1992): 33-48.
Categories: Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Lee, J. B. "Lessons in Humility: The Revolutionary Transformation of the Governing Elite of Charles County, Maryland." In The Transforming Hand of Revolution. Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Categories: Politics and Law, Charles County
Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.
Notes: This intensive and insightful study of a single county offers insight into several large themes in Maryland history - "the American Revolution as a transforming, ongoing phenomenon, civilian's responses to the War for Independence, the tenor of the nation's formative years, and the nature of Chesapeake society." During this period Charles Country changed from prosperous economy, securely connected to the outside world through overseas trade, into a stagnant backwater, whose forward looking population searched for opportunity elsewhere. Unlike other areas of Maryland, where the Revolutionary years were tumultuous, there were few challenges to the status quo. Cut off from the empire, entrepreneurial whites left the county in search of wealth and opportunity, often as close as Washington, DC, and the population became overwhelmingly unfree.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Charles County
Robbins, Charles Lee. "Harford County Circuit Court Minutes 1830-1839." Harford Historical Bulletin 81 (Summer 1999): 42-53.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Harford County