The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Berkshire, Jennifer Courtney. Struggling Home: The Spatial Construction of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America. Ph.D. diss., Miami University, 1995.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century
Cockey, Carolyn Davis. "Maryland's Gray Ladies." Maryland 28 (January 1996): 36-43.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Dayan, Joan. "Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves." American Literature 66 (June 1994): 239-73.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century
Dominguez, Susan. "Snapshots of Twentieth-Century Writers Mary Antin, Zora Neale Hurston, Zitkala-Sa, and Anzia Yezierska." Centennial Review 41 (Fall 1997): 547-52.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Twentieth Century
Freeman, Elizabeth Stone. The Wedding Complex: Sex Norms and Fantasy Forms in Modern American Culture. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1996.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Gambrell, Alice. "Serious Fun: Recent Work on Zora Neale Hurston." Studies in the Novel 29 (Summer 1997): 238-44.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Twentieth Century
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth. "Mencken's 'In Defense of Women.'" Menckeniana 121 (Spring 1992): 11-13.
Siebert, Sara. "Mencken on Women." Menckeniana 121 (Spring 1992): 13-15.
Wingate, P. J. "Women Understood H. L. Mencken." Menckeniana 128 (Winter 1993): 7-9.
Clarke, Donald. Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday. New York: Viking Penguin, 1994.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Deutsch, Helen Waverly. Laura Keene's Theatre Management: Profile of a Profession in Transition. Ph.D. diss., Tufts University, 1992.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Women
Drake, James A. Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography. Portland, OR: Amadeus/Timber, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
O'Meally, Robert G. Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday. New York: Arcade Pub., 1991.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane. Rosa Ponselle: American Diva. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Ponselle, Rosa, and James A. Drake. Ponselle: A Singer's Life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Sprenkle, Elam Ray. The Life and Works of Louis Cheslock. D.M.A. diss., Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1979.
Notes: The life of Louis Cheslock proveds an expansive view of the musical life of Baltimore from the 'teens to the 1970s. Cheslock's story begins in 1893 when his older brother, Henry Czeslak, fled from Poland to England to avoid conscription into the Russian army and changed his name to Rosenberg to avoid detection. His parents followed and eventually moved to Baltimore with their children. Louis Cheslock was one of the original members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (founded in 1916), a faculty member at Peabody from 1922 to 1976, a member of Henry Mencken's Saturday Night Club from 1927 to its final gathering in 1950, a composer who wrote over 150 works (including opera in collaboration with Mencken), writer and music critic. Cheslock witnessed and wrote on the emergence of jazz as an art form, the rise of radio and the scientific study of music.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Weems, Helen R. The History of the Women's String Orchestra. M.M. thesis, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1990.
Notes: The Women's String Orchestra was organized in 1936 to provide performance opportunities to women musicians barred from the all-male Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra, which numbered between 35 to 40 players, performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cadoa Hall and the Peabody. Less than two months after the debut of the Women's String Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony opened its auditions to women (five of the women string players were hired). Weems' thesis examines the public response to female orchestral musicians in Baltimore and elsewhere in the United States and the role of women in the musical life of the city in the late 1930s. Her interviews with the founding members of the orchestra provide vivid accounts of the barriers placed in the paths of these pioneering women and how they surmounted them.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
White, Roger. "The Stars Wore Stripes: GIs Entertaining GIs at Fort George G. Meade and Overseas, 1941-1945. Part IV: Performances by Servicemen and Women in Fort Meade and American Cities." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (July 1991): 5-6, 12-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Alvarez, Rafael. "Stove Shop Now A Warm Memory." In Hometown Boy: The Hoodle Patrol and Other Curiosities of Baltimore. Baltimore: Baltimore Sun, 1999, 292-293.
Notes: Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Annual Report for 1990." Bugeye Times 16 (Spring 1991): 5-14.
Notes: Calvert Marine Museum.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Chesapeake Region
Bache, Ellyn. "Miss Mary and the Book Wagon." Maryland 21 (Winter 1988): 32-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Baltimore Museum of Art. :Annual I The Museum: Its First Half Century. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.
Notes: A history of the first fifty years of the BMA, from its start as a City-Wide Congress Committee on Founding an Art Museum (1911), to its temporary home in Mount Vernon, to the construction of its permanent home in Wyman Park. A major thesis is that a very modern thinking museum became a great success in a city known for being conservative. Nicely illustrated with works from the collection and photographs of museum activities.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Barrett, Daniel. "The Birth of the Calvert Marine Museum." Calvert Historian 2 (October 1987): 22-25.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Beirne, Francis F. "The Four Merchants." In The Amiable Baltimoreans. New York, 1951; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City