The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Cook, Eleanor M. V. Guide to the Records of Montgomery County, Maryland. Genealogical and Historical. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1989.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Crook, Mary Charlotte. "Lilly Moore Stone, Founder of the Montgomery County Historical Society." Montgomery County Story 20 (November 1977): 1-10.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Calvert County, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Glick, Susan. "A Story Hidden in Suburbia." Maryland 26 (February 1994): 60-64.
Notes: This article, based on the writer's own experience researching her home, is an excellent introduction for someone just beginning house research.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Montgomery County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Montgomery County
Lawton, Elizabeth, and Raymond S. Sweeney. Maryland History: A Selective Bibliography; Showing the Holdings of Some of the Major Libraries in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Rockville: Montgomery County Historical Society, 1975.
Categories: General, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Malloy, Mary Gordon, and Jane Sween. A Selective Guide to the Historic Records of Montgomery County, Maryland. Rockville: Montgomery County Department of Public Libraries, 1974.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
"Museum Reflects on its History: The Second Five Years." Legacy 15 (Summer 1995): 2.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Rice, Mary. "Sandy Spring and its Museum." Legacy 15 (Winter 1996): 2, 6.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Schullian, Dorothy M., and Frank B. Rogers. "The National Library of Medicine." The Library Quarterly 27 (January 1958): 1-17; (April 1958): 95-121.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
"Society Celebrates 50th Anniversary." The Montgomery County Historical Society Newsletter (November-December 1994): 1-2.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Stevenson, Lloyd G. "The Blake Era at HMD." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 56 (Winter 1982): 455-459.
Notes: Study of Medicine Division of National Library of Medicine from 1961-1982.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Anderson, George M. "A Delegate to the 1850-51 Constitutional Convention: James W. Anderson of Montgomery County." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Fall 1981): 250-71.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Cassell, Frank A. Merchant Congressman in the Young Republic: Samuel Smith of Maryland. Madison: The University Press of Wisconsin, 1971.
Notes: Samuel Smith epitomizes the history of Baltimore City during the early republic. An officer during the Revolution and the commander of the forces that defended the city against the British attack in 1813, a member of an important merchant family whose economic connections helped him establish a political power base that stretched almost five decades, and sometimes brought him to the brink of economic ruin, he was a major political figure from George Washington's presidency through Andrew Jackson's. His career also reveals the elusiveness of political labels. As a Republican leader in the 1790s, he opposed the policies of the Federalists and supported those of Thomas Jefferson, but he and his brother Robert Smith had a falling out with James Madison, and by the 1830s he was courted by the more democratic Jacksonians who refused to anoint his kin as party leaders.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Correll, Emily Clare Newby. "Crimes in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 41 (August 1998): 37-47.
Categories: Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Notes: A comprehensive examination of the political background, military operations, and diplomatic closure of "Mr. Madison's War." It may have been forgotten in other areas, but for Maryland the War of 1812 was all too real. The Royal Navy roamed the Chesapeake with impunity, occupied Tangier Island, burned Frenchtown, attacked St. Michaels and Havre de Grace, sacked the nation's capitol after defeating the militia at Bladensburg, before meeting defeat after a combined sea-land attack on Baltimore City, which was immortalized in Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner." There is also a chapter on the infamous Baltimore riot of 1812.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, War of 1812
Newton-Matza, Mitchell. "Approved Security: Children and the Law in Federalist Era, Montgomery County, Maryland." Journal of Juvenile Law 18 (1997): 35-52.
Categories: Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Reeves, Mavis Mann. "Change and Fluidity: Intergovernmental Relations in Low Cost Housing, Montgomery County, Maryland." Publius 4 (Winter 1974): 5-44.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Skok, James E. "Participation in Decision Making: The Bureaucracy and the Community." Western Political Quarterly 27 (March 1974): 60-79.
Notes: Montgomery and Prince George's Counties.
Categories: Politics and Law, Montgomery County, Prince George's County
Sween, Jane C. "Maryland and Montgomery County in the Evolution of the United States Constitution." Montgomery County Story 30 (May 1987): 263-77.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Montgomery County
We the People. Montgomery County and the Constitution. Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Historical Society, 1988.
Categories: Politics and Law, Montgomery County
Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced Baltimore during the War of 1812. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, Published for Mystic Seaport, Inc., 1977.
Notes: The British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 was motivated by a desire to punish the city for being a nest of republicans and privateers. This book traces in admirable detail the history of privateering - from the ships, outfitting, captains and crews, investors, their successes and failures, through the distribution of the prize money. While the pirates on the Spanish main may have been the dregs of the sea, Baltimore's privateers were underwritten by some of its leading mercantile and political leaders. The book includes useful appendices identifying the privateers, investors and proceeds.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Andersen, Patricia Abelard. "The Almshouse, Later Called the 'County Home,' 1789-1948: A History of Poor Relief in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 41 (May 1998): 25-36.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Anderson, George M. "'Premature Matrimony': the Hasty Marriage of Bettie Anderson and Philemon Crabb Griffith." Maryland Historical Magazine 83 (Winter 1988): 369-77.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County