The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1925.
Notes: Mentions Maryland only regarding farming in 1840 and peach orchards, but is useful since so many Pennsylvania Germans settled in Frederick County.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1933.
Notes: From barley to wool, Gray's great work is unsurpassed in its detail about farming from Maryland's founding to the Civil War.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Handwerker, Tom. "Something is Fishy Down on the Farm." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 13 (Harvest 1991): 18-19.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Pursell, Carroll W., Jr. "The Administration of Science in the Department of Agriculture, 1933-1940." Agricultural History 42 (1968): 231-240.
Notes: Henry A. Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of Agriculture, championed scientific research because he himself was scientist a hybrid corn breeder. Using emergency relief funds from the National Recovery Administration, Wallace, in 1934, transformed the small experiment station in Beltsville into a great national research center. The Bankhead-Jones Act then funded the basic research agenda.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Thomas, Calvin Rutherford. The Impact of Amenity Landownership on Agriculture in Talbot County, Md. Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1983.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eastern Shore
Wiser, Vivian. "Maryland in the Early Land-Grant College Movement." Agricultural History 36 (1962): 194-199.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Education, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Adams, Sandra Ludwig. "The Legacy of Elisha Tyson, Venerable Citizen." Maryland Magazine 14 (Autumn 1981): 22-25.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Ambrose, Stephen E., and Richard H. Immerman. Milton S. Eisenhower: Educational Statesman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
Blakey, Arch Frederick. General John H. Winder, C.S.A. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Somerset County, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Bourne, Michael. "Walter T. Pippin-Designer, Contractor and Builder." Old Kent 10 (Summer 1993): [3-9].
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Callcott, George H., ed. Forty Years as a College President: Memoirs of Wilson Elkins. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, 1981.
Cameron, Roldah N. "Levi Oldham Cameron: Cecil County Builder & Politician." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 67 (April 1994): 4-5.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Carroll, Kenneth L. "The Berry Brothers of Talbot County, Maryland: Early Antislavery Leaders." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 1-9.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
"Cecil Minister Had to Pick Two for Execution in Civil War." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 54 (May 1987): 1-3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Chidester, Karen, and Elly Williamson. "Mister Creswell's Chairs." Bulletin of The Historical Society of Cecil County 79 (Autumn 1998): 8-10.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Coryell, Janet L. Neither Heroine Nor Fool: Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1986.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Politics and Law, Women, Nineteenth Century, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Daniel, W. Harrison. Jimmie Foxx: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
De Pasquale, Sue. "Merchant with a Plan and a Vision." Johns Hopkins Magazine 41 (June 1989): 36-37.
Notes: Johns Hopkins.
Fleetwood, Mary Anne. Voices from the Land: A Caroline County Memoir. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1983.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Eastern Shore
Fletcher, Charlotte. "John McDowell, Federalist: President of St. John's College." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 242-51.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Futrell, Roger H. "Zachariah Riney: Lincoln's First Schoolmaster." Lincoln Herald 74 (1972): 136-142.
Grauer, Nell. "Milton Stover Eisenhower, 1899-1985." Johns Hopkins Magazine 36 (June 1985): 48-53.
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Jacob, Kathryn A. "Mr. Johns Hopkins." Johns Hopkins Magazine 25 (January 1974): 13-17.