The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Brown, Lauren R. "Present at the Tenth Hour: Appraising and Accessioning the Papers of Congresswoman Marjorie S. Holt." Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship 2 (Fall 1987): 95-102.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Women, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Allison-Bunnell, Jodi L. "Access in the Time of Salinger: Fair Use and the Papers of Katherine Anne Porter." American Archivist 58 (Summer 1995): 270-82.
Notes: University of Maryland, College Park.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Daniel, Pete, and Stuart Kaugman. "The Booker T. Washington Papers and Historical Editing at Maryland." Maryland Historian 1 (1970): 23-29.
Categories: African American, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
"For Preservation Information Check Out the University of Maryland National Trust Collection." The Preservationist 6 (March-April 1991): 4-5.
Notes: A description of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's library, located at the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, and the services it offers. This facility of the nation's largest preservation organization, and the largest preservation collection in the states, is under utilized. Of particular note is the library's index to preservation journals.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Fusonie, Alan, and William Hauser. "Climate History at the National Agricultural Library." Agricultural History 63 (Spring 1989): 36-50.
Categories: Agriculture, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Fusonie, Alan E. "The History of the National Agricultural Library." Agricultural History 62 (Spring 1988): 189-207.
Categories: Agriculture, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Prince George's 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
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Prince George's County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Prince George's County
Klaus, Susan L. Links in the Chain: Greenbelt, Maryland and the New Towns Movement in America, an Annotated Bibliography on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Greenbelt, Maryland. Washington, DC: Center for Washington Area Studies, George Washington University, 1987.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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.