The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Greaver, Earl R. "Foul Farm Fowl and Other Birds." History Trails 32 (Spring 1998): 9-11.
Categories: Agriculture, Baltimore County
McGrain, John. An Agricultural History of Baltimore County, Maryland. Towson, MD: published by the author, 1990.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Baltimore County
Trimble, Logan C. "Middling Planters and the Strategy of Diversification in Baltimore County, Maryland, 1750-1776." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Summer 1990): 171-78.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Cotter, Thomas F. "The Merryman Affair." History Trails 24 (Winter 1989-1990): 5-8.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
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.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
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.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Linton, Terry L. "The Forgotten Millwright, Isiah Linton 1739-1775." History Trails 23 (Autumn, 1988-Winter, 1988/1989): 1-7.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Marsh, Joan F. "William Henry Holmes and 'Holmescroft'." Montgomery County Story 42 (August 1999): 89-100.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Martin, Percy E. "Baltimorean in Big Trouble: Samuel Arnold, A Lincoln Conspirator, Part I." History Trails 25 (Autumn 1990): 1-4.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Martin, Percy E. "Baltimorean in Big Trouble: Samuel Arnold, a Lincoln Conspirator." History Trails 25 (Winter 1990-1991): 5-8; (Spring 1991): 9-12.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Mascari, Ruth. "A Parkton Girlhood." History Trails 17 (Spring 1983): 9- 10.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Parry, Ann Hollingsworth. "Domestic Life on a Farm near Glen Falls." History Trails 31 (Winter 1996-Spring 1997): 8.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Sparrow, Margaret W. "The Sparrows of Sparrow's Point." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Winter 1990): 395-403.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
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.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Berlin, Ira. Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
Notes: The author spends some time discussing Maryland, and the Upper South in general, in order to emphasize geographic distinctions which impacted the status of free Negroes. He postulates that the treatment and status of free blacks foreshadowed the treatment of black people in general after emancipation. In addition, the author examines the various classes of free blacks to understand how different groups viewed their social role. For the elite, positions of leadership continued after the Civil War. Maryland is of particular interest since by 1810, almost one-quarter of Maryland's black population was free. Maryland therefore had the largest free black population of any state in the nation.
Categories: African American, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Buford, Carolyn Bames. The Distribution of Negroes in Maryland, 1850-1950. M.A. thesis, Catholic University, 1955.
Categories: African American, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Diggs, Louis S. In Our Voices: A Folk History in Legacy. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 1998.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County
Diggs, Louis S. Since the Beginning: African American Communities in Towson. Baltimore: Uptown Press, 2000.
Notes: East Towson, Sandy Bottom, Lutherville, Schwartz Avenue.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Donaldson, O. Fred, and Richard L. Morrill. "Geographical Perspectives on the History of Black America." Economic Geography 48 (1972): 1-23.
Hall, Robert L. "Slave Resistance in Baltimore City and County, 1747-1790." Maryland Historical Magazine 84 (1989): 305-18.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
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.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County