The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Norton, Louis Arthur. Joshua Barney, Hero of the Revolution and 1812. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000.
Notes: Joshua Barney (1758-1818) was a naval hero in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Aside from his military exploits, this patriotic Marylander's life is closely associated with the history of the American flag. Barney is best known for the spirited action of the barge men under his command at the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814. Alone among the Americans at the battle, Barney and his men fought bravely against a superior British force.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Military, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, War of 1812
Peden, Henry C., Jr. "Col. Aquila Hall: Harford County's Revolutionary War Patriot." Harford Historical Bulletin 34 (Fall 1987): 71-75.
Plummer, Norman H. "Lieutenant John Trippe: The Last Chapter." Weather Gauge 30 (Spring 1994): 21-27.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Military, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Plummer, Norman H. Lambert Wickes: Pirate or Patriot. St. Michaels, MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1991.
Prettyman, George B., Sr. "Lester Stanley German: Major League Baseball Player in the 1890s." Harford Historical Bulletin 54 (Fall 1992): 117-20.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Robbins, Charles L. R. Madison Mitchell, His Life and Decoys. Bel Air, MD: Published by the author, 1987.
Notes: A Havre de Grace wood carver.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Harford County
Robertson, Barbara Lambert. "Captain Henry J. Vaughan: An Admirable Antecedent." Bugeye Times 14 (Fall 1989): 6-7.
Rollo, Vera F. Henry Harford: Last Proprietor of Maryland. N.p.: Harford County Committee of the Maryland Bicentennial Commission, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Harford County
Stiverson, Gregory A., and Jacobsen, Phebe R. William Paca: A Biography. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976.
Notes: Visitors to Annapolis mostly associate William Paca (1740-1799) with a handsome house and gardens restored to their original glory. Paca hailed from Harford County, owned extensive property on the Eastern Shore, but moved to Annapolis and emerged as a patriotic leader during the revolutionary era. Elected Governor in 1782, Paca headed a state government that witnessed the final victory over the British. This short biography provides a good introduction to the man and his era.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Harford County
Sutherland, Hunter C. "Biographical Sketch of George Washington Archer (1824-1907)." Harford Historical Bulletin 38 (Fall 1988): 104-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Vojtech, Pat. "Homeward Bound." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (September 1989): 36-40.
Notes: Boatbuilder Graham Ero.
Walker, Irma, and James T. Wollon, Jr. "George Archer's Life and Work." Harford Historical Bulletin 56 (Spring 1993): 35-57.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Walters, Keith. "Captain Otis Bridges: 70 Years on the Bay." Maryland 21 (Autumn 1988): 62-63.
Watkins, McClarin. "I Remember Quarrying Slate at Delta-Cardiff." Harford Historical Bulletin 39 (Winter 1989): 10-17.
Yellott, John Bosley, Jr. "Jeremiah Yellott-Revolutionary-War Privateersman and Baltimore Philanthropist." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Summer 1991): 176-89.
Abingbade, Harrison Ola. "The Settler-African Conflicts: The Case of the Maryland Colonists and the Grebo 1840-1900." Journal of Negro History 66 (Summer 1981): 93-109.
Categories: African American, Maritime, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Austin, Gwendolyn Hackley. "In Search of the Little Black Guinea Man; A Case Study in Utilizing Harford County and other Maryland Resources to Track Black Family History." Harford Historical Bulletin 36 (Spring 1988): 29-41.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Harford County
Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime
Hanks, Douglas, Jr. "Downes Curtis, Sailmaker." Weather Gauge 33 (Fall 1997): 20-24.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime
Harvey, Lamont W. "Black Oystermen of the Bay Country... particularly St. Michaels, Maryland." Weather Gauge 30 (Spring 1994): 4-13.
Leggett, Vincent O. "The Black Watermen of Shady Side." Maryland Humanities (March 1999): 8-10.
Categories: African American, Maritime, Anne Arundel County
Slezak, Eva, comp. "Blacks Employed in Maritime Related Occupations: Wood's Baltimore City Directory, 1871." Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 11 (Winter 1990): 169-85.
Stansbury, Russell. "Biographical Sketch [of] Clayton Crewell Stansbury." Harford Historical Bulletin 15 (Winter 1983): 7-9.
Notes: Havre de Grace community leader, ca. 1920-1950.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Harford County
Sutherland, Hunter. "Slavery in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 35 (Winter 1988): 19-27.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Trivelli, Marifrances. "'I Knew a Ship from Stem to Stern:' The Maritime World of Frederick Douglass." Log of Mystic Seaport 46, no. 4 (1995): 98-108.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Nineteenth Century