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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

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.

Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.

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.

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.

Aberbach, Moses. Soloman Baroway: Farmer, Writer, Zionist and Early Baltimore Social Worker. Baltimore: Baltimore Jewish Historical Society, 1990.

Burwell, Gale. "Henry N. Hotchkiss." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Summer 1995): 33-36.

Carroll, Kenneth L. "Thomas Thurston, Renegade Maryland Quaker." Maryland Historical Magazine 62 (1967): 170-192.

Clawson, Frank D. "Thomas Kennedy--Hagerstown's 'Thomas Jefferson.'" Cracker Barrel 17 (July 1987): 11.

Dash, Joan. Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Notes: Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) was a social activist whose career began in Baltimore with the founding of a center and night school for recent immigrants from Russia similar to the settlement houses pioneered by Jane Addams. She later founded Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, and became a leader in the Zionist movement.

Gilje, Paul A. "A Sailor Prisoner of War During the War of 1812." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Spring 1990): 58-72.

Haenftling, Mildred Dauphin. "Pastor [Carl F.] Dauphin: Zion Lutheran 1937-1969." Glades Star 5 (March 1979): 134-38; (June 1979): 148-53.

Hardenbergh, Jane Slaughter. "E. Y. Mullins: Man of Vision." American Baptist Quarterly 11 (September 1992): 246-58.

Holmes, David L. "William Holland Wilmer: A Newly Discovered Memoir." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Summer 1986): 160-164.

Hoopes, Roy. "Mason Locke Weems, the Publishing Preacher." Maryland 19 (Winter 1986): 36-38.

Kurtz, Michael J. John Gottlieb Morris: Man of God, Man of Science. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1997.

Kurtz, Michael J. "Being a Renaissance Man in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore: John Gottlieb Morris." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 156-69.

Leary, Lewis. The Book-Peddling Parson: An Account of the Life and Works of Mason L. Weems. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1984.

Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Aaron Aaronsohn; Pioneer Scientist, Spy and Friend of Henrietta Szold." Hadassah Magazine (March 1977): 16-17, 38-42.

Levin, Alexandra Lee. Henrietta Szold: Baltimorean. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.

Levin, Jack L. Sidney Hollander: Beloved Warrior. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.

Maser, Frederick E. Robert Strawbridge, First American Methodist Circuit Rider. Baltimore: Strawbridge Shrine Association, 1983.

Meyer, Sam. Paradoxes of Fame: The Francis Scott Key Story. Annapolis, MD: Eastwind Publishing, 1995.

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

Miller, Donald G. The Scent of Eternity: A Life of Harris Elliott Kirk of Baltimore. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1990.

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.

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