The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Anderson, George M. "Growth, Civil War, and Change: The Montgomery County Agricultural Society, 1850-1876." Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Winter 1991): 396-406.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Anderson, George M. "The Montgomery County Agricultural Society: The Beginning Years, 1846-1850." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Winter 1986): 305-15.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Bidwell, Percy W., and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1925.
Notes: Mentions Maryland only regarding farming in 1840 and peach orchards, but is useful since so many Pennsylvania Germans settled in Frederick County.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution, 1933.
Notes: From barley to wool, Gray's great work is unsurpassed in its detail about farming from Maryland's founding to the Civil War.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Pursell, Carroll W., Jr. "The Administration of Science in the Department of Agriculture, 1933-1940." Agricultural History 42 (1968): 231-240.
Notes: Henry A. Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's first Secretary of Agriculture, championed scientific research because he himself was scientist a hybrid corn breeder. Using emergency relief funds from the National Recovery Administration, Wallace, in 1934, transformed the small experiment station in Beltsville into a great national research center. The Bankhead-Jones Act then funded the basic research agenda.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Wiser, Vivian, and Wayne D. Rasmussen. "Background for Plenty: A National Center for Agricultural Research." Maryland Historical Magazine 61 (1966): 283-304.
Adler, Georgia. "How Distinctly I Now Recollect What Then Passed: The Journals of William E. Bartlett." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 2-3.
Carroll, Kenneth L. "The Berry Brothers of Talbot County, Maryland: Early Antislavery Leaders." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 1-9.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Edwards, Margaret A. "I Once Did See Joe Wheeler Plain." Journal of Library History 6 (1971): 291-302.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Gordon, Martin K. "Patrick Magruder: Citizen, Congressman, Librarian of Congress." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 32 (1975): 153-171.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Hosmer, Charles B., Jr. "Verne E. Chatelain and the Development of the Branch of History of the National Park Service." Public Historian 16 (Winter 1994): 24-38.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
Krech, Shepard, III. Praise the Bridge That Carries You Over: The Life of Joseph L. Sutton. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co. (cloth); Cambridge, MD: Chenkman Publishing Co. (paper), 1981.
Notes: Biography of a black resident of Miles River Neck in Talbot County. Based on extensive oral history interviews, this personal narrative by a long-time Talbot County resident offers a unique look at the life of African Americans on the Eastern Shore. Joseph Sutton (1885-1980) led a long and eventful life, and his reminiscences are rich in personal detail. In addition to his own experiences, Sutton's words are a valuable source for understanding the personal impact of racism on African Americans.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Twentieth Century, Talbot County
Kuethe, F. William, Jr. "Some Background on the Donors of the Kuethe Library." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (April 1992): 8-9.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Kurtz, Michael J. John Gottlieb Morris: Man of God, Man of Science. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century
Kurtz, Michael J. "Being a Renaissance Man in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore: John Gottlieb Morris." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 156-69.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
"Meet Talbot's Delegates." Historical Society of Talbot County Newsletter (Fall 1987): 1-2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Naumann, Timothy. "Enoch Pratt and His Gift to Baltimore." Maryland 19 (Winter 1986): 40-44.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Padgett, James A., ed. "Rumsey Documents." Maryland Historical Magazine 32 (1937): 10-28, 136-55, 271-85.
Parker, Franklin. George Peabody: A Biography. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971; revised edition, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century
Porter, Frank W. "John Widgeon: Naturalist, Curator and Philosopher." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Winter 1984): 325-331.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Preston, Dickson J. Young Frederick Douglass: The Maryland Years. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Notes: There are a number of excellent biographies of Frederick Douglass including works by Eric Foner, William McFeeley and Benjamin Quarles. For the student of Maryland history, Preston's short but well-researched book focuses on the first twenty years of Douglass' life spent in Talbot County and Baltimore City. His experiences as a slave in Maryland shaped his subsequent career and thus are critical to understanding one of the greatest spokesmen for human rights.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Talbot County
Reveal, James L. "Hugh Jones (1671-1702)--Calvert County Naturalist." Calvert Historian 1 (October 1984): 1-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County
Rogers, Ellen. "James Harris Rogers, Scientist." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 13 (July-August 1985): 31-34.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Rose, Lou, and Michael Marti. Arthur Storer of Lincolnshire, England and Calvert County, Maryland. Prince Frederick, MD: Calvert County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County