The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Mohrhardt, Foster E. "The Library of the United States Department of Agriculture." The Library Quarterly 27 (April 1957): 61-82.
Categories: Agriculture, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Pacifico, Michele F. "The National Archives at College Park." Government Information Quarterly 13 (1996): 115-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Personal and Organizational Papers Relating to Maryland: A Guide to Holdings of the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the Special Collections Division of the University of Maryland Libraries at College Park. [College Park: University of Maryland], 1978.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Radoff, Morris L. "The Maryland Records in the Revolutionary War." American Archivist 37 (April 1974): 277-85.
Notes: Governmental records are always at risk during times of war. Maryland's records were in an even more precarious position during the Revolutionary War, the Maryland State House was under construction. Radoff discusses the movement of Maryland's records in attempts to keep them safe from harm. Also discussed in the theft of Cecil County land records by British troops.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Cecil County, Prince George's County
Schofield, Clay. "An Annotated Bibliography of Folklore Material for the Eastern Shore." Free State Folklore 3 (Winter 1976-1977): 19-55.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
"Trust Library Re-Debuts." Preservation News 27 (November 1987): 12, 16.
Notes: National Trust for Historic Preservation Library at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Wiser, P. Vivian. "Select Bibliography on History of Agriculture in Maryland." National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, Associates NAL Today 1 (October 1976): 55-85.
Categories: Agriculture, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Arnold, Joseph L. The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program, 1935-1954. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1971.
Notes: Considering the variety of Maryland's various planned communities - Columbia, Bowie, Greenbelt and Roland Park - it is important to appreciate how each was distinctive. At its conception, Greenbelt, along with several other communities planned and built by Rexford Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration, represented the social experimentation associated with New Deal. According to the author: "the greenbelt towns were built to demonstrate that urban expansion by the construction of complete new towns would provide superior safety, convenience, beauty, and a deep sense of community spirit - all at a new low cost. These new suburban towns would therefore provide a superior environment for families heretofore condemned to live in urban slums. New towns would stop urban decay and end economic segregation of the suburbs." (p. xii) What was radical was the comprehensive scope of the enterprise, the creation of co-operative businesses to serve the community, and the fact that the federal government maintained ownership. This study ends with the implementation of Public Law 65 (1949) which transferred ownership of most of the houses to a private co-operative.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County, Prince George's County
Hienton, Louise J. "The Hundreds of Prince George's County." Maryland Historical Magazine 65 (1970): 55-67.
Categories: Politics and Law, Prince George's County
"President of the Senate." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 15 (January-February 1987): 3-4.
Categories: Politics and Law, Prince George's 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
Virta, Alan. "'Payable Before July 1:' The County Levy and Levyers." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 11 (January 1983): 3-6.
Categories: Politics and Law, Prince George's County
Bousse, Alfons. "Holidays and Festivals in the Low Countries." Riversdale Letter 14 (Fall 1997): 2-3.
Bousse, Alfons. "Rosalie Calvert's Heritage: A Rich Diet from Wealthy Antwerp." Riversdale Letter 14 (Summer 1997): 2-4.
Calo, Zachary Ryan. "From Poor Relief to the Poorhouse: The Response to Poverty in Prince George's County, Maryland, 1710-1770." Maryland Historical Magazine 93 (Winter 1998): 392-427.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
Notes: Carr and Walsh make detailed use of probate records from seventeenth and eighteenth century Maryland to argue that the period in Chesapeake area history represented a shift from an early emphasis upon material necessities to an improved standard of living marked by "gentility." The authors contend that this change reached across class lines and helped to fuel, rather than check, the productive economy of the colony. The article includes extensive tables and graphs of evidence regarding consumer items for several Maryland and Virginia counties.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Cook, Margaret. "Brookes Family Inn, Upper Marlboro, MD." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 14 (May 1986): 19-20.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Prince George's County
DeMarr, Frederick S. "The Second Invasion of Bladensburg." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 21 (August 1994): [1-6]; (September 1994): [3-8].
Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 1996.
Notes: Horton's title suggests his principal themes in examining Smith Island life: that the islands represent a distinctive way of life rooted in another time whose preservation into the future may literally be running out of time. An environmental columnist for the Baltimore <em>Sun</em> who lived on Smith Island in the late 1980s as an environmental educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Horton examines the water-related economy, traditionally based on oystering and crabbing, and the unique way of life that evolved in the relative isolation of the island communities. His book profiles the personalities of Smith Island, the work of men and women, the pervasive role of religion in island life, and social, economic, and environmental changes threatening the island's future.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Kelly, Joseph B. "Prince George's Horses." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 21 (June 1994): [6-7].
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Prince George's County
Russo, Jean B. "The Constables' Lists: An Invaluable Resource." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Summer 1990): 164-70.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
"The Walkers of Pleasant Prospect." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 14 (July-August 1986): 31-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Prince George's County
Walton, John M., Jr. "The Poor of Prince George's County from a Historical Perspective: 1696-1965." Passport to the Past, 4 (April/May/June 1993): 5-7.
Allen, Cathy. "Prince George's County's Aviation History." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 27 (March 1998): [2-4].
Categories: Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Allen, Cathy Wallace. "History of College Park Airport." Passport to the Past 1 (September/October 1990): 1, 6.