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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Greaver, Earl R. "Foul Farm Fowl and Other Birds." History Trails 32 (Spring 1998): 9-11.

Handwerker, Tom. "Something is Fishy Down on the Farm." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 13 (Harvest 1991): 18-19.

McGrain, John. An Agricultural History of Baltimore County, Maryland. Towson, MD: published by the author, 1990.

Trimble, Logan C. "Middling Planters and the Strategy of Diversification in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1750-1776." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Summer 1990): 171-78.

Blakey, Arch Frederick. General John H. Winder, C.S.A. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990.

Cotter, Thomas F. "The Merryman Affair." History Trails 24 (Winter 1989-1990): 5-8.

Cross, Philip S. "A Life at Rayville - Part II." History Trails 14 (Winter 1980): 5-8.
Notes: Reminiscences of Baltimore County from the 1840s to the 1920s.

Frank, Beryl. "Samuel Hartley of Quaker Hill." History Trails 14 (Spring 1980): 9-10.

Greaver, Earl R. "Gourmets All." History Trails 31 (Winter 1996-Spring 1997): 5-7.

Greaver, Earl R. "Idaho Reds." History Trails 30 (Spring 1996): 9-11.

Guroff, Margaret. "Glenn L. Martin." Baltimore 92 (July 1999): 30-31.

Linton, Terry L. "The Forgotten Millwright, Isiah Linton 1739-1775." History Trails 23 (Autumn, 1988-Winter, 1988/1989): 1-7.

Martin, Percy E. "Baltimorean in Big Trouble: Samuel Arnold, A Lincoln Conspirator, Part I." History Trails 25 (Autumn 1990): 1-4.

Martin, Percy E. "Baltimorean in Big Trouble: Samuel Arnold, a Lincoln Conspirator." History Trails 25 (Winter 1990-1991): 5-8; (Spring 1991): 9-12.

Mascari, Ruth. "A Parkton Girlhood." History Trails 17 (Spring 1983): 9- 10.

Parry, Ann Hollingsworth. "Domestic Life on a Farm near Glen Falls." History Trails 31 (Winter 1996-Spring 1997): 8.

Sparrow, Margaret W. "The Sparrows of Sparrow's Point." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Winter 1990): 395-403.

Whitman, Suzanne Voss White. The Knoll in Green Spring Valley. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985.

Witcover, Jules. White Knight: The Rise of Spiro Agnew. New York: Random House, 1972.
Notes: Spiro Agnew rose from Baltimore County Executive to Governor of Maryland to Vice President under Richard Nixon. Although he did not complete his term as Governor, Agnew was instrumental in reforming and reorganizing the state government. He got the attention of the national Republican Party for his firm response to the racial and political unrest of the 1960s. As Vice President, Agnew gained acclaim and notoriety for speeches that attacked the administration's opponents. Ultimately, a criminal indictment for activities that occurred in his Baltimore County days led to his resignation as Vice President.

Davidson, Thomas E. "Free Blacks in Old Somerset County, 1745-1755." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 151-156.
Notes: County court records of Somerset County, Maryland during the eighteenth century are particularly complete, allowing for detailed studies of the county's population during that period. The author contributes to the scholarship which, up until 1985, focused primarily on the origins of black culture on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the seventeenth century. The author also adds to the growing scholarship on free blacks in this region, which tended to also focus on the seventeenth century. In addition to examining court records to determine the numbers of free Negroes and mulattoes, the author also attempts to determine how members of these populations obtained their free status, that is, through manumission or the as the result of being children of free mothers (free-born).

Diggs, Louis S. In Our Voices: A Folk History in Legacy. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 1998.

Diggs, Louis S. Since the Beginning: African American Communities in Towson. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 2000.
Notes: East Towson, Sandy Bottom, Lutherville, Schwartz Avenue.

Hall, Robert L. "Slave Resistance in Baltimore City and County, 1747-1790." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 305-18.

Hurry, Robert J. "An Archeological and Historical Perspective on Benjamin Banneker." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 361-69.
Notes: The author provides a survey of the Banneker family farm in southwestern Baltimore County. While most scholarship has focused on Benjamin Banneker's career and achievements as a mathematician, surveyor and astronomer, since the 1970s, scholarship and public funding have helped to illuminate his life as a land-owning farmer. The Bannekers were one of the first African-American families to own land in the Piedmont region of Maryland; Benjamin's father, Robert purchased one hundred acres in 1737.

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