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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Ohr, Erica. "Museums for Kids." Frederick Magazine (February 1994): 44-45.

Parsons, Richard, ed. Guide to Specialized Subject Collections in Maryland Libraries. 2d ed. Baltimore: Baltimore County Public Library, 1974.

Russell, Donna Valley. Frederick County, Maryland, Genealogical Research Guide. Middletown: Catoctin Press, 1987.

Steiner, Bruce C. "Descriptions of Maryland." Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science 22 (1904).

Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1992: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Summer 1993): 210-31.

Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1993: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 209-32.

Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1994: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Fall 1995): 384-96.

Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1995: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Summer 1996): 253-69.

Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1996: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Summer 1997): 257-77.

Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman, comps. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1997: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 93 (Summer 1998): 246-58.

Turkos, Anne S. K., and Jeff Korman, comps. "Maryland History Bibliography, 1998: A Selected List." Maryland Historical Magazine 94 (Summer 1999): 244-57.

Wallace, David H. "McSherry Papers Donated." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (September 1997): 1, 3.

Weiser, Frederick S., ed. "Eighteenth Century German Church Records from Maryland: A Checklist." The Report: A Journal of German-American History 38 (1982): 5-14.

Willmann, William G. "The Historical Society: First Hundred Years." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (March 1988) 3-4.

Nelson, W. Dale. The President is at Camp David. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

Rice, James D. Crime and Punishment in Frederick County and Maryland, 1748-1837: A Study in Culture, Society, and Law. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1994.

Ridgway, Whitman Hawley. A Social Analysis of Maryland Community Elites, 1827-1836: A Study of the Distribution of Power in Baltimore City, Frederick County and Talbot County. Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1973.

Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman, eds. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century Essays on Anglo-American Society & Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: A collection of papers presented at a scholarly conference in 1974 covering all aspects of Chesapeake life and politics in the 17th century. Many of these scholars - especially Lois Green Carr, Lorena S. Walsh, Darrett and Anita Rutman, David W. Jordan, and Russell R. Menard - would become the core of a new "Chesapeake School," whose hallmark was to breathe life and insight into mute statistical records. Their influence into our understanding of this period cannot be overstated.

Bard, Harry. Maryland: State and Government, Its New Dynamics. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1974.
Notes: Divided into three sections - the first describing Maryland's people, history and geography, the second its government, and the third governmental services available to its citizens - this book provides a comprehensive description of the structure of Maryland government and its relationship to the people in the mid-1970s. Its major limitation is that some of the information may not be current because it was written almost three decades ago.

Ridgway, Whitman H. Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840. A Comparative Analysis of Power in Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: Applying social science methodology to reconstruct patterns of decision making and their significance, this work examines the formation of elites in four political communities representing the diversity of the state (Baltimore City, and the counties of Frederick, St. Mary's, and Talbot) in two political eras (the Jeffersonian and the Jacksonian). In the more rural areas, such as St. Mary's and Talbot counties, decision makers overlapped with those who held public office and dominated community affairs, and little changed between the two periods. Where there was greater social and economic diversity, the patterns were considerably different. Elites became more specialized forcing decision makers to accommodate the demands of new leaders who represented a expanding popular political base. Members of the different elites (decisional, commercial, positional and traditional) are identified, along with individual socio-economic information, in the appendices.

Bardsley, Virginia O., ed. "Frederick Diary: September 5-14, 1862." Maryland Historical Magazine 60 (1965): 132-138.

Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Notes: Brugger's comprehensive social and cultural history of Maryland is the fruit of the decision by the Maryland Historical Society to commission a new state history in observance of Maryland's 350th anniversary. Brugger takes as his central theme that Maryland's distinction historically was that it represented a middle way-between North and State, slave and free, traditional and modern, rural/suburban/urban. The book considers the interaction of major political, social, and cultural developments. It includes a valuable bibliographical essay; a chronology of events; sets of maps, tables, and figures; and extensive illustrations.

Calcott, George. Maryland & America, 1940-1980. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Notes: Calcott examines recent Maryland history in its relation to major national trends over the period from World War II to 1980. Arguing that the state consists of four cultural areas-Baltimore City, Eastern and Southern Maryland, Western Maryland, and Suburban Maryland-Calcott considers the interaction of political, social, and cultural developments, both in terms of overall trends as well as in terms of their expression in the state's diverse regions. Major topics include post-World War II population growth and suburbanization, Cold War tensions, the Civil Rights era, political liberalism and the growth of the welfare functions of the state, educational and environmental developments, and the changing role of government.

Johnson, Arthur T. Minor League Baseball and Local Economic Development. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Notes: Johnson examines the public policy issues related to minor league baseball, among the most popular of American minor league enterprises. Case studies explore the way in which the "stadium issue" often raises political controversy regarding public control and economic development. One chapter focuses on Frederick, Maryland, and the state and local policies that led to construction of a stadium for the Frederick Keys franchise. Johnson concludes that the direct economic contribution of minor league sports to local economies is relatively small, though they may enhance general development efforts.

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