The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Saladini, Robert. American Catholic Church Music: The Baltimore Cathedral. M.A. thesis, Catholic University, 1984.
Categories: Music and Theater, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Shifflet, Anne Louise. Church Music and Musical Life in Frederick, Maryland 1745-1845. M.A. thesis, American University, 1971.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Speller, John L. "The Charles Strohl Organ and Historic Old Salem, Catonsville, Maryland." The Tracker 33, no. 4 (Richmond: the Organ Historical Society, 1990): 19-22.
Categories: Music and Theater, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Howard County
Wolf, Edward C. "Two Divergent Traditions of German-American Hymnody in Maryland circa 1800." American Music (Fall 1985): 299-312.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Adams, Cheryl, and Art Emerson. Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives: A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Washington: Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress, 1998.
Notes: Institutional level descriptions for nineteen Maryland libraries and archives holding significant religious collections. A tremendous level of detail is given. Subject headings are assigned to each institution. This guide is also available online at <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/">https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/</a>.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Washington County
Alvarez, Rafael. "It Was Like a Time Capsule." In Hometown Boy: The Hoodle Patrol and Other Curiosities of Baltimore. Baltimore: Baltimore Sun, 1999, 178-179.
Notes: Baltimore Hebrew University Library.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Bowers, Deborah. "On the Road Again: The Bookmobile in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 28-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Bowers, Deborah. "A One-Hundred Year History of Libraries in Harford County from 1885." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 3-27.
Notes: In the late nineteenth century many of Harford County's communities formed library organizations. Following the 1945 Maryland Library Aid Act a Harford County library system was established. At the time of this article Harford County has a growing public library system with a good number of branches spread across the county.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Brandt, Thirza M. "The Historical Society's Photographic Archives Collection." Harford Historical Bulletin 61 (Summer 1994): 133-40.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Brown, John E., comp. "Articles from The Harford Historical Bulletin Concerning Harford County History, Arranged According to Historical Periods." Harford Historical Bulletin 56 (Spring 1993): 58-71.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Brunk, Gerald R., and James O. Lehman. A Guide to Select Revolutionary War Records Pertaining to Mennonites and Other Pacifist Groups in Southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1775-1800. N.p., 1974.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century
Cadbury, Henry J. "More First Publishers of Truth." Journal of the Friends' Historical Society [Great Britain] 52 (1970): 159-167.
Dowell, Susan Stiles. "The Harvey Ladew Manor House & Gardens." Maryland Magazine 17 (Summer 1985): 42-45.
Notes: A history of Harvey Ladew and his house and garden, now open to the public. The topiary garden is considered one of the nation's finest.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Fishman, Bernard P. "Back to East Baltimore. An Introduction to the New Jewish Heritage Center." Generations (Fall 1986): 10-11.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Religion, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Fishman, Bernard P. "Making the Jewish Museum of Maryland." Generations (Fall 1998): 26-34.
Notes: An involved discussion of the 1990s construction of the museum's new museum, complete with problems and foibles, written by the man who directed the project.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Harford County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Harford County
Hodge, David C. "The Hooker Collection: Inventory and Annotations." Harford Historical Bulletin 61 (Summer 1994): 117-32.
Notes: Descriptions of 62 images from a glass plate negative collection owned by the Historical Society of Harford County.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Jackl, W. E. "Station Number Eleven of the Enoch Pratt Free Library." Journal of Library History 7 (1972): 141-156.
Notes: East Baltimore's Station Number Eleven, which began in two rooms in a settlement house was amazingly successful in servicing its Jewish immigrant population with very mere resources. This article includes some discussion in the early 20th century library controversy of whether or not libraries should collection non-English works. Also stressed is the role the public library played in the Americanization of the immigrant.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Key, Betty McKeever, comp. Oral History in Maryland: A Directory. Edited by Larry E. Sullivan. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981.
Notes: Although it is very outdated, this directory should serve be the starting point for anyone attempting to locate oral history collections relevant to Maryland. Collections surveyed were not only in institutional hands (schools, libraries, and historical agencies) but also belonged to governmental agencies and private individuals. Included are DC and PA collections of potential interest.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Noll, Linda. "The Steppingstone Museum: A Step Back in Time." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 145-47.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County
"Revolutionary War Museums and Sites of Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Summer 2001): 25.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Science and Technology, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Frederick County, Harford County, Washington County
Schell, Edwin. History of Northeastern Jurisdictional Historical Concerns. N.p.: Northeastern Jurisdictional Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church, 1976.
Scroth, Raymond A. "The Excommunication of Reverend John Baptist Causse: an Unpublished Sermon by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 81 (1970): 42-56.
Starin, Mary Elizabeth. "The Callister Papers, Maryland Room, Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 15 (January 1974): 3-5.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Young, Dorothy Hays. "The Archives of the Historical Society of Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin (Winter 1985): 1-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County