The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Offord, James. "Memories of Sandy Spring." Legacy 13 (Winter 1993): 4.
Offutt, William M. "Miracle in Bethesda." Montgomery County Story 38 (May 1995): 333-44.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Stabler, Stanley. "When Horses Made Sandy Spring Run." Legacy 15 (Summer 1995): 6.
Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
Notes: The author spends some time discussing Maryland, and the Upper South in general, in order to emphasize geographic distinctions which impacted the status of free Negroes. He postulates that the treatment and status of free blacks foreshadowed the treatment of black people in general after emancipation. In addition, the author examines the various classes of free blacks to understand how different groups viewed their social role. For the elite, positions of leadership continued after the Civil War. Maryland is of particular interest since by 1810, almost one-quarter of Maryland's black population was free. Maryland therefore had the largest free black population of any state in the nation.
Categories: African American, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Buford, Carolyn Bames. The Distribution of Negroes in Maryland, 1850-1950. M.A. thesis, Catholic University, 1955.
Categories: African American, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Clarke, Nina H., and Lillian B. Brown. History of the Black Public Schools of Montgomery County, Maryland 1872-1961. New York: Vantage Press, 1978.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Education, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Cohen, Anthony. The Underground Railroad in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Historical Society, 1994.
Cohen, Anthony M. "The Underground Railroad in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 38 (February 1995): 321-32.
Donaldson, O. Fred, and Richard L. Morrill. "Geographical Perspectives on the History of Black America." Economic Geography 48 (1972): 1-23.
"Emory Grove: A Black Community of Yesteryear." Montgomery County Story 31 (February 1988): 1-10.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Farquhar, Roger Brooke, III. "Slavery Ebbed Early in Sandy Spring." Legacy 17 (Winter 1997): 1, 7.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Fly, Everrett L., and La Barbara Wigfall Fly. Northeastern, Montgomery County Black Oral History Study. Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Development, 1983.
Halper, Lee. "On Growing Up Black in Sandy Spring." Legacy 19 (Spring 1999): 1, 3.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Harrold, Stanley. "Freeing the Weems Family: A New Look at the Underground Railroad." Civil War History 42 (December 1996): 289-306.
Notes: The author examines conventional and scholarly interpretations of underground railroad by looking at the escape of the Weems family from the Chesapeake region of Maryland. By using the Weems family as a case study, the author challenges thirty years' worth of scholarship on the underground railroad. By examining a family that escaped from a border state, the author is able to explore both black self-determination and white assistance found in the records of this family's escape. In addition, the author examines a bi-racial network of non-Garrisonian abolitionists who raised money to purchase the freedom of slaves, or if that was not possible, to channel the money raised into effecting an escape plan.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Kimmel, Ross M. "Free Blacks in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Spring 1976): 19-25.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Howard County, Montgomery County
McDaniel, George W. Black Historical Resources in Upper Western Montgomery County. N.p,: Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1979.
Categories: African American, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
McGuckian, Eileen. "Black Builders in Montgomery County 1865-1940." Montgomery County Story 35 (February 1992): 189-200.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Posilkin, Robert Stuart. An Historical Study of the Desegregation of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Public Schools, 1954-1977. Ed.D. diss., George Washington University, 1979.
Categories: African American, Education, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Walston, Mark. "A Survey of Slave Housing in Montgomery County." The Montgomery County Story 27 (August 1984): 111-126.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
"Beale House and Polychrome Houses Added to National Register." The Preservationist (July-August 1997): 1, 3.
Caravaggio, Joan. "Clara Barton's Glen Echo Home from Past to Present." Montgomery County Story 19 (November 1976): 1-10.
Cissel, Anne W. "Summit Hall: 230 Years from Logtown to Summit Hall Farm Park." Montgomery County Story 32 (August 1989): 71-80.
"The Davis House in Hyattstown." The Preservationist 7 (June-July 1992): 7.
"Developer Donates Historic Waters House to Park & Planning Commission." The Preservationist (May-June 1997): 5.
Farquhar, Roger Brooke. Historic Montgomery County: Old Homes and History. Silver Spring, MD: privately printed, 1952.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Montgomery County