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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Meyer, Sam. "Religion, Patriotism, and Poetry in the Life of Francis Scott Key." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 267-74.

Moore, Virginia Campbell. "Remembrances of Life Along the Rockville Pike During the Civil War." The Montgomery County Story 27 (November 1984): 127-142.

Musgrove, Ora Dale Watkins. "My Childhood in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 38 (November 1995): 357-68.

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.

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.

Rivinus, E. F. "Beanes, Barney, and the Banner." Naval History 13 (May/June 1999): 46-50.

Sheads, Scott Sumpter. Guardian of the Star-Spangled Banner: Lt. Colonel George Armistead and the Fort McHenry Flag. Linthicum, MD: Toomey Press, 1999.

Stabler, Stanley. "When Horses Made Sandy Spring Run." Legacy 15 (Summer 1995): 6.

Clarke, Nina H., and Lillian B. Brown. History of the Black Public Schools of Montgomery County, Maryland 1872-1961. New York: Vantage Press, 1978.

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.

"Emory Grove: A Black Community of Yesteryear." Montgomery County Story 31 (February 1988): 1-10.

Farquhar, Roger Brooke, III. "Slavery Ebbed Early in Sandy Spring." Legacy 17 (Winter 1997): 1, 7.

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.

George, Christopher T. "Mirage of Freedom: African Americans in the War of 1812." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Winter 1996): 426-50.
Notes: Black men fought for both the American and British forces during the War of 1812. For example, free blacks who constructed earthworks and black sailors in the U.S. Navy helped to deflect the British attack on Baltimore in 1814. Free blacks and slaves who decided to help the British hoped to secure freedom in return for their services.

Halper, Lee. "On Growing Up Black in Sandy Spring." Legacy 19 (Spring 1999): 1, 3.

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.

Kimmel, Ross M. "Free Blacks in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Spring 1976): 19-25.

McDaniel, George W. Black Historical Resources in Upper Western Montgomery County. N.p,: Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1979.

McGuckian, Eileen. "Black Builders in Montgomery County 1865-1940." Montgomery County Story 35 (February 1992): 189-200.

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.

Sheads, Scott S. "A Black Flotillaman: Baltimore 1814." Military Collector and Historian 36 (Spring 1984): 7.

Sheads, Scott S. "A Black Soldier Defends Ft. McHenry, 1814." Military Collector and Historian 41 (Spring 1989): 20-21.

Walston, Mark. "A Survey of Slave Housing in Montgomery County." The Montgomery County Story 27 (August 1984): 111-126.

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