The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Welcome, Verda F., as told to James M. Abraham. My Life and Times. Englewood, NJ: Henry House Publishers, 1991.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Wennersten, John R. "A Cycle of Race Relations on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Somerset County, 1850-1917." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 377-382.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
West, Margaret Genevieve. Zora Neale Hurston's Place in American Literary Culture: A Study of the Politics of Race and Gender. Ph.D. diss., Florida State University, 1997.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Women, Twentieth Century
Whitman, T. Stephen. "Diverse Good Causes: Manumission and the Transformation of Urban Slavery." Social Science History 19 (Fall 1995): 333-70.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Whitman, T. Stephen. The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Whitman, Torrey Stephen. Slavery, Manumission, and Free Black Workers in Early National Baltimore. Ph.D. diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1993.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Wicek, William M. "The Statutory Law of Slavery and Race in the Thirteen Mainland Colonies of British America." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 34 (1977): 258-80.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Windham, Joseph Edward. Bondage, Bias, and the Bench: An Historical Analysis of Maryland Court of Appeals Cases Involving Blacks, 1830-1860. Ph.D. diss., Howard University, 1990.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Andrews, Andrea. "The Baltimore School Building Program, 1870-1900: A Study in Urban Reform." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Fall 1975): 260-274.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Craig, Bruce. "Politics in the Pumpkin Patch." Public Historian 12 (Winter 1990): 9-24.
Notes: Pipe Creek Farm.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Carroll County
Crooks, James B. "The Baltimore Fire and Baltimore Reform." Maryland Historical Magazine 65 (Spring 1970): 1-17.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Earle, Swepson. The Eastern Shore of Maryland: Its History, Traditions, Architecture, and Waters. Baltimore: Union Trust Co., [1930].
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Earle, Swepson. Southern Maryland: Its History, Traditions, Architecture, and Waters. Baltimore: Union Trust Co., [1930].
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Linebaugh, Donald W. "'All the Annoyances and Inconveniences of the Country': Environmental Factors in the Development of Outbuildings in the Colonial Chesapeake." Winterthur Portfolio 28 (Spring 1994): 1-18.
Mackintosh, Barry. "'Politics in the Pumpkin Patch': A Response." Public Historian 12 (Spring 1990): 53-56.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Carroll County
Miller, James Edward. "The Dowager of 33rd Street: Memorial Stadium and the Politics of Big-Time Sports in Maryland, 1954-1991." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Summer 1992): 187-200.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Notes: Gardens are the result of a particular culture and are an outward sign of a special grace, according to Maryland architecture writer H. Chandlee Forman. Early gardens reflected the tastes and enthusiasms of their owners as much as did their mansions. The author's engaging account of the significance of the domestic landscape to its proprietors and their visitors includes color illustrations of several of the estates.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Environment, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Selig, Jerome D. "Reconstruction of the C&O Canal." Maryland Conservationist 53 (May/June 1977): 16-19.
Arnold, Joseph L. "The Neighborhood and City Hall: The Origins of Neighborhood Associations in Baltimore, 1880-1911." Journal of Urban History 6 (November 1979): 3-30.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
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
Benson, Robert Louis. "The Creation of Howard County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (January 1995): 5-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Brooks, Kenneth F., Jr. "River Mysterious." Mid-Atlantic Country 11 (April 1990): 26-29.
Notes: Towns and landmarks along the Pocomoke River.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment
Brooks, Richard O. New Towns and Communal Values: A Case Study of Columbia, Maryland. New York: Praeger, 1974.
Notes: This work is the product of the consultancy year the author spent with the Rouse Company. He includes a snapshot of residents at the time, such as their population characteristics and their reason for purchasing in Columbia. Included is a chapter on the now gone Antioch College.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Browne, Gary L. "Urban Centers of the Past." Maryland Heritage News 2 (Fall 1984): 6-7.
Notes: A variety of factors effect the rise and fall of urban centers -- transportation, market, environmental, and political changes, as well as the rise of other centers. Browne presents a brief discussion of the fate of approximately ten urban centers.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Washington County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Buckley, Geoffrey L. "Converting Minerals into Merchandise: Landownership and Environmental Alteration in the George's Creek Valley of Western Maryland, 1789-1842." Historical Geography 26 (1998): 151-75.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County