The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Fusonie, Alan, and Donna Jean. George Washington, Pioneer Farmer. Mount Vernon, VA: Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, 1998.
Notes: Washington's life gives many insights into colonial farming, and he had many contacts among Maryland Agriculturalists.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Hulton, Paul. America, 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Notes: These are the first "pictures" of this region, accurately depicting marine, terrestrial and avian species, and both Native Americans and sundry of their crafts. They are widely applicable to the nearby Chesapeake Indians and some drawings may directly depict Bay life because John White explored there during his stay.
Categories: Agriculture, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD
Fischer, David Hackett. "John Beale Bordley, Daniel Boorstin, and the American Enlightenment." Journal of Southern History 28 (1962): 326-342.
Categories: Agriculture, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Harrar, H. Joanne. "Maryland: Abraham Milton The Farmer's Companion 1761." In Thirteen Colonial Americana: A Selection of Publications Issued in the British Provinces of North America During the Final Half-Century of the Colonial Era. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1977.
Bryan, Jennifer A. "The Tilghman Papers." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Fall 1993): 297-99.
Categories: Agriculture, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Baltimore City
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
Gibb, James G. "Using Calvert County's Agricultural Censuses: 1850-1880." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 9-17.
Notes: A useful introduction to an underutlized resource. This article would be worthwhile reading for anyone interested in agricultural censuses whether or not their area of study was Calvert County.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Maryland Statistical Abstract. Annapolis: Department of Economic Development, 1967-.
Notes: This source provides data on nearly every aspect of Maryland and the live's of its citizens.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Sotterley Plantation." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 27.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary'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
Noll, Linda. "The Steppingstone Museum: A Step Back in Time." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 145-47.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford 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
Berryman, Jack W. "John S. Skinner's American Farmer: Breeding and Racing the Maryland 'Blood Horse,' 1819-1829." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Summer 1981): 159-73.
Berryman, Jack W. "John Stuart Skinner and the American Farmer, 1819-1829: An Early Proponent of Rural Sports." Associates NAL Today, new series, 1 (October 1976): 11-32.
Bishko, Lucretia Ramsey. "Lafayette and the Maryland Agricultural Society:1824-1832." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 45-67.
Boccaccio, Mary. "Maryland at the St. Louis World's Fair." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 347-354.
Notes: Boccaccio profiles the Maryland state exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, organized to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase one hundred years earlier. Drawing upon papers in the library of the University of Maryland College Park, she chronicles the efforts of William Amoss, who assembled the agricultural and horticultural products for a display which celebrated the state's western, southern, and central regions.
Menard, Russell R. "Population, Economy, and Society in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 71- 92.
Notes: Menard examines some of the complex social and economic patterns underlying the rapid population growth of Maryland during the seventeenth century despite strong in-migration, high mortality, a shortage of females, and later marriage which often produced unstable family life. Tobacco exports rose dramatically, but the economy eventually suffered from over-dependence on a single crop. Though the colony was established with aristocratic goals, immigrants and their offspring initially created a social and economic pattern in which small planters predominated. However, by the century's end a new gentry class clearly had emerged in an order characterized by greater dependence on slave labor, a decline of indentured servitude, and heightened degrees of inequality.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Feeding Eighteenth-Century Tidewater Town Folk, or, Whence the Beef?" Agricultural History 73 (Summer 1999): 267-80.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth Century Maryland." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series 34 (October 1977): 542-71.
Notes: Most women coming to Maryland in the seventeenth century were indentured servants between ages eighteen and twenty-five. Hard work in the tobacco fields, late marriage, and early death awaited them. However, for the woman who survived seasoning and their period of service, the sexual imbalance let them choose her husband and seize the opportunity to become a planter's wife. She risked childbirth, bore three to four children, and hoped one or two lived to adulthood. Widows remarried quickly, and complex families were the norm.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century
Hood, Margaret School. Margaret School Hood Diary, 1851-1861. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992.
Categories: Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Lawson, Joanne Seale. "Remarkable Foundations: Rose Ishbel Greely, Landscape Architect." Washington History 10 (Spring 1998): 46-69.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Women, Twentieth Century
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Therese O'Malley." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 12-15.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century
Bergstrom, Peter V. "Leah and Rachel Revisited: Everyday Life in the Colonial Chesapeake." Reviews in American History 12 (1984): 176-181.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Other
Burton, Arthur G., and Richard W. Stephenson. "John Ballendine's Eighteenth-century Map of Virginia." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 21 (1964): 172-178.
Categories: Agriculture, Geography and Cartography, Eighteenth Century, Other