The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Henig, Gerald S. Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from Maryland. New York: Twayne Press, 1973.
Notes: A sympathetic biography of a leading Maryland politician who died in 1866 at the early age of forty-eight. A gifted orator and political writer, and a passionate opponent of the Democratic Party, Davis initially associated with the Whig Party, which was popular in the north but less so in the south, just as it was in the throes of disintegration. He then aligned with the newly formed Know Nothing Party, whose primary appeal was nativism and anti-Catholicism, and was elected to Congress in 1855. He was a leading opponent of the Buchanan administration and an early supporter of Abraham Lincoln. Active in trying to stem the tide of secession and to keep Maryland in the Union, he hoped for a Cabinet position, but Montgomery Blair won the appointment. At odds with his constituents, he was defeated for re-election and his political career appeared to be ended. He became gradually disenchanted with Lincoln's leadership, and, after re-election to Congress as a Unconditional Unionist, he led the effort to reassert Congressional leadership over reconstruction policies. When the President pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis bill, he issued a highly publicized protest manifesto and actively opposed Lincoln's renomination. During the 1864 campaign, however, he decided that the Democratic candidate, McClellan, was a greater threat, so he campaigned for the Republican ticket. Davis also played a decisive role in the writing and ratification of the Maryland constitution of 1864. Once again his radical position eroded his constituent base and he was not renominated for his Congressional seat.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Bentley, Amy. "Wages of War: The Shifting Landscape of Race and Gender in World War II Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Winter 1993): 420-43.
Notes: Bentley examines the impact of the dramatic changes occasioned by World War II-era production in Baltimore. In terms of race, while Jim Crow patterns prevailed in various arenas, most notably housing, new employment opportunities eventually became available as well, especially in such critical industries as steel and other war-related industries. Similarly, the role of women in employment expanded even as traditional roles were reaffirmed. Bentley argues that new wartime values challenged conventional stereotypes regarding race and gender and provided the basis for eventual changes.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Gibb, James G., and Julia A. King. "Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 109-131.
Notes: Using archaeological records and spatial analysis from three Southern Maryland tobacco plantation sites, the authors provide an ethnographic look at life for seventeenth-century Maryland colonists in terms of gender and class roles. The article provides a brief overview of the economics of the Chesapeake region, the structure of living arrangements, and the gendered nature of tasks. The evidence suggests how gendered and class-based activities contributed to both household production and accrued wealth. The authors conclude that comparisons between the three sites provide the basis for understanding how household wealth was a direct corollary of the ability to secure a large work force and to develop a high degree of specialization.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Harris, JoAnn. "Claire McCardell: Maryland's Fashion Prophet." Maryland 7 (Winter 1974): 2-5.
Neverdon-Morton, Cynthia. African-American Women of the South and the Advancement of the Race, 1895-1925. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Norton, M. B. "Gender, Crime, and Community in Seventeenth-century Maryland." In The Transformation of Early American History, edited by James A. Henretta, Michael Katz, and S. N. Katz, 123-150. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1991.
Rice, James D. "Laying Claim to Elizabeth Shoemaker: Family Violence on Baltimore's Waterfront, 1808-1812." In Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Jacobs, Charles T. "Civil War Fords and Ferries in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 40 (February 1997): 417-28.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Summers, Festus P. The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War. New York: Putnam's, 1939.
Notes: The B&O was the Union's most important railroad during the conflict. Summers's book "presents a scholarly, objective, and conscientious approach to the subject in hand with literary execution of unusual excellence," said Maryland historian Matthew Page Andrews in his 1940 <em>Maryland Historical Magazine</em> review.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
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
Addison-Darneille, and Henrietta Stockton. "For Better or For Worse." Civil War Times Illustrated 31 (May/June 1992): 32-35, 73.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Adelson, Bruce. "Clara Schillace Donahoe." Maryland 27 (May/June 1995): 80.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
"Adriana Zarbin: 1994-1995 Alliance President." Maryland Medical Journal 43 (June 1994): 533-34.
Agnew, Elizabeth N. Charity, Friendly Visiting, and Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Shaping of an American Profession. Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1999.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Ayers, Bonnie Joe. "Sadie Miller." Maryland 17 (Autumn 1984): 39-41.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Carroll County
Baldwin, Douglas O. "Discipline, Obedience, and Female Support Groups: Mona Wilson at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1915-1918." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 69 (Winter 1995): 599-619.
Baldwin, Hélène L. "'Down street' in Cumberland: The Diaries of Two Nineteenth-Century Ladies." Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (Fall 1982): 222-29.
Categories: Women
Barlow, Marjorie Dana, comp. Notes on Woman Printers In Colonial America and the United States 1639-1975. New York: Hroswitha Club, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Barton, Lindi R. "Feminism and Suffragism: The Women's Movements of the Mid-1800's." Calvert Historian 10 (Fall 1995): 37-53.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Beauchamp, Virginia Walcott, ed. A Private War: Letters and Diaries of Madge Preston, 1862-1867. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Beckman, Rev. I. Lynn. "Mountaintop Midwife." Glades Star 6 (September 1990): 444-47, 449-50.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Women, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Behind the Maryland Scene: Women of Influence, 1600-1800. N.p.: National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Maryland et al., 1977.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Beirne, D. Randall. "Gossip and Mrs. Simpson." Maryland Humanities (January 1999): 17-20.
Bellinger, Annie. "Marylanders Through and Through." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 88.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Chesapeake Region
Benson, Robert Louis. "Queen Anne." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (July 1994): 5, 12.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Women, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County