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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Polites, Angeline, comp., and ed. Maryland 350th Anniversary Speakers Guide and Directory. Annapolis: Maryland Commission on Ethnic Affairs, 1982.

Reichman, Felix. "German Printing in Maryland: A Check List, 1768-1950." Report of the Society for the History of Germans in Maryland 27 (1950): 9-70.

Runion, Carol. "BMI's Traveling Industrial Hygiene Exhibit Debuts in Kansas City." Nuts and Bolts 13 (Summer 1995): [5].

Sanford, Elizabeth G. "The Medical and Chirurigical Faculty of Maryland Library, 1830-1975." Maryland State Medical Journal 24 (June 1975): 35-40.

Saye, Hymen. The Papers of Harry Greenstein: Saga of a Humanitarian. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.

Scarpaci, Jean. The Ethnic Experience in Maryland: A Bibliography of Resources. Towson: Towson State University, [1978].

Schullian, Dorothy M., and Frank B. Rogers. "The National Library of Medicine." The Library Quarterly 27 (January 1958): 1-17; (April 1958): 95-121.

Shopes, Linda. "The Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project: Oral History and Community Involvement." Radical History Review 25 (October 1981): 27-44.

Stevenson, Lloyd G. "The Blake Era at HMD." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 56 (Winter 1982): 455-459.
Notes: Study of Medicine Division of National Library of Medicine from 1961-1982.

Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. "Matthias de Sousa: Colonial Maryland's Black, Jewish Assemblyman." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (December 1978): 397-98.

Rhodes, Irwin S. "Early Legal Records of Jews of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." American Jewish Archives 12 (1960): 96-108.

Rice, James D. "'This Province, so meanly and Thinly Inhabited': Labor, Race, and Penal Practices in Maryland, 1681-1837." Journal of the Early Republic, 19 (Spring 1999): 15-42.

Weaver, Glenn. "Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania Germans." William and Mary Quarterly 14 (1957): 536-559.

Atwood, Liz. "Jews in Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 19-25.

Beirne, D. Randall. "German Immigration to Nineteenth-Century Baltimore." Maryland Humanities (September/October 1994): 15-17.

Bonvillain, Dorothy Guy. Cultural Pluralism and the Americanization of Immigrants: The Role of Public Schools and Ethnic Communities, Baltimore, 1890-1920. Ph.D. diss., American University, 1999.

Cahn, Louis F. "Baltimore Jews and Baltimore Horses." Generations 3 (June 1982): 23-30.

Carey, George. "A Sampler of Baltimore's Folk Culture." Johns Hopkins Magazine 27 (January 1976): 8-12.
Notes: George Carey, former Maryland state folklorist, notes that folklore often has been understood as applying to rural and traditional ways of life, but he insists that the concept is equally relevant for the study of urban settings like Baltimore. The most obvious examples he finds in the city's ethnic neighborhoods, both European and African American, including Ukrainian-American Easter egg designs, window screens painted by Czech-Americans, and African-American A-rabing (street hawker) cries, songs, and storytelling.

Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman, eds. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
Notes: Essays on aspects of the social history of Baltimore provide case studies of social issues and neighborhood dynamics. Paired chapters first consider the lives of ordinary B&O Railroad workers involved in the railroad strike of 1877, then examine the powerful family of B&O magnate John Work Garrett. Chapters on work consider the area's mill villages, the garment industry, and union activity. Studies of neighborhoods address the history of Fells Point in terms of race and ethnicity and racial change in west Baltimore.

Feest, Christian F. "Ethnohistory, Moral History, and Colonial Maryland." Amerikastudien 28 (No. 4 1983): 429-433.

Fein, Isaac. The Making of an American Jewish Community: The History of Baltimore Jewry from 1773 to 1920. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.

Feldman, Dianne. "The Mystery of Rodeph Schalem: Exploring a Jewish Organization Lost to History." Generations (Fall 1998): 17-19.

Kelbaugh, Jack, and Fred Fetrow. "Murder, Music, and Meteorology: When the Russians Came to the County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 29 (October 1997): 1-2.

McGowan, Lynn. "A Survey of Irish Usage among Immigrants in the United States." In The Irish Language in the United States: A Historical, Sociolinguistic, and Applied Linguistic Study, edited by Thomas W. Ihde. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1994, 67-76.
Notes: To evaluate the persistence of Irish language usage by Irish immigrants to the United States in the period following 1922, McGowan conducted a limited survey of respondents in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. In order to determine the impact of Irish language instruction fostered by the Free State of Ireland, she selected only those who had been educated in Irish primary schools after the implementation of the language policy. She found that for most immigrants to the United States, Irish had remained a "school language," not used a great deal in everyday life, though there were important degrees of persistence in reading, writing, and conversation.

Orser, Edward, and Joseph Arnold. Catonsville, 1880-1940: From Village to Suburb. Norfolk, VA: Donning Pubishing Co., 1989.
Notes: This photographic history traces the history of Catonsville, on Baltimore County's west side, from the 1880s, when the village center served the needs of travelers on Frederick Road and the surrounding agricultural area, as well as afforded sites for summer homes for some of Baltimore's elite, to 1940, when growth, development, and transportation links heightened its suburban character within the Baltimore metropolitan region. The volume includes research evidence on the social make-up of the community, such as the impact of German and Irish immigrants and the role of its historic African American community.

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