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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Bryan, Jennifer A. "The Tilghman Papers." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Fall 1993): 297-99.

Cox, Richard J. "A Checklist of Revolutionary War Manuscript Collections Accessioned and Catalogued Since Publication of The Manuscript Collections of the Maryland Historical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Summer 1976): 252-63.

Cox, Richard J. A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Mordecai Gist Papers. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1975.

Cox, Richard J. "Two Marylanders in the Early Navy: The Hambleton Family Papers, MS. 2021." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Fall 1974): 317-21.

Evans, Richard A., and Harry R. Shallerup. "The Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy." Library Scene 3 (June 1974): 4-7.

Faust, Page T. "Keeping History Alive at Sotterly Plantation." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Winter 1998): 338-39.

"Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine." Inland Architect 115, no. 4 (1998): 88-89.

Hartwig, D. Scott. The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1990.

Hollowak, Thomas L. "Maryland Genealogy and Family History: A Bibliography, 1987-1989." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 33 (Summer 1992): 484-530.

Jensen, Ann. "The U.S. Naval Academy Museum." Naval History 5 (Fall 1991): 74-76.

Leventhal, Herbert, and James E. Mooney. "A Bibliography of Loyalist Source Material in the United States." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 85 (1975): 73-308, 405-460.

"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.

"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Star-Spangled Banner Flag House and Museum." Maryland Humanities (September 1998): 27.

"Old Clear Spring Library Remembered." Maryland Cracker Barrel (Dec. 1999/Jan 2000): 26, 28.
Notes: The small, volunteer run, Clear Spring Library developed in a building which had served as a community kitchen and a soldier's canteen. The library existed only between the two great wars. This brief history is compiled from the quotes of community members.

Pelsinsky, Amy. "Tales from the Cryptology Museum." Columbia Magazine (Summer 1995): 28-30.

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.

Requardt, Cynthia Horsburgh. "Women's Deeds in Women's Words: Manuscripts in the Maryland Historical Society." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (June 1978): 186-204.

Taylor, Morton F. "The Sheriff John F. De Witt Military Museum Opens." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 62 (September 1992): 7.

Walker, Grant H. "New Light Shed Below-Decks." Naval History 9 (April 1995): 48-52.

Crowl, Philip A. "Maryland during and after the Revolution: A Political and Economic Study." Johns Hopkins University Studies 61 (1943).

Gienapp, William E. "Abraham Lincoln and the Border States." Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 13 (1992): 13-46.
Notes: An analysis of Lincoln's policies in the border states, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, designed to prevent secession. After 1861, when each border state had pledged Union allegiance, Gienapp explores Lincoln's successes and failures in preserving or establishing loyal governments in each border state, fostering loyalty among its citizens, minimizing military occupation of these states, and ending slavery by voluntary state action.

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.

Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.
Notes: This intensive and insightful study of a single county offers insight into several large themes in Maryland history - "the American Revolution as a transforming, ongoing phenomenon, civilian's responses to the War for Independence, the tenor of the nation's formative years, and the nature of Chesapeake society." During this period Charles Country changed from prosperous economy, securely connected to the outside world through overseas trade, into a stagnant backwater, whose forward looking population searched for opportunity elsewhere. Unlike other areas of Maryland, where the Revolutionary years were tumultuous, there were few challenges to the status quo. Cut off from the empire, entrepreneurial whites left the county in search of wealth and opportunity, often as close as Washington, DC, and the population became overwhelmingly unfree.

Wagandt, Charles L. "Election by Sword and Ballot: the Emancipationist Victory of 1863." Maryland Historical Magazine 59 (1964): 143-164.

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