The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Daniels, Christine. "'Getting his [or her] Livelyhood:' Free Workers in a Slave Anglo-America, 1675-1810." Agricultural History 71 (Spring 1997): 125-61.
Notes: Compared to slaves and servants, free, white laborers, like Nathaniel Dunnahoe in Kent County, in 1716, have been overlooked. However, Daniels found evidence of both the work they did wheat threshing, shingle and plank making, providing firewood, washing, knitting, and midwifery, among other things and the wages they earned. "Free male and female laborers in the slave Chesapeake found work at tasks either unrelated or only indirectly related to the plantation staple." (p. 157). Economic niches, apparently, existed early on.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Pittman, LaVern. "Walnut Level: A Model Farm in Allegany County." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 3-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County
Dash, Joan. Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Notes: Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) was a social activist whose career began in Baltimore with the founding of a center and night school for recent immigrants from Russia similar to the settlement houses pioneered by Jane Addams. She later founded Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, and became a leader in the Zionist movement.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Dean, David M. "Meshach Browning: Bear Hunter of Allegany County, 1781-1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 73-83.
Notes: Meshach Browning was the author of an autobiography, <em>Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter</em>, that might more properly be seen as a tall tale wrapped around the framework of an actual life. Browning (1751-1859) inhabited the frontier in the westernmost part of Maryland that later became Garrett County. He claimed to have killed 400 bears in his career. For those attracted to the stories of Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyon, Meshach Browning's life offers entertaining reading.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Gross, Dorothea A. Recollections of My Immigrant Grandmother: Events of the Early 1900s. New York: Carlton Press, 1988.
Hom-Kim, Lillian Lee. "Fang H. Der, An Oral History from Baltimore, Maryland." Chinese America: History and Perspectives (1988): 190-98.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Jack Edelman, A Remembrance." Generations 5 (April 1985): 21-34.
"Jack L. Levin, Champion of Causes." Generations 5 (April 1985): 3-20.
Kellman, Naomi. "Dr. Samson Benderly." Generations 4 (December 1983): 25-31.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Ethnic History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Aaron Aaronsohn; Pioneer Scientist, Spy and Friend of Henrietta Szold." Hadassah Magazine (March 1977): 16-17, 38-42.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Levin, Alexandra Lee. Henrietta Szold: Baltimorean. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Levin, Alexandra Lee. "Israel Zangwill Visits Baltimore." Generations (Fall 1993): 8.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Levin, Alexandra Lee. "A Memorial for Two Wealthy Baltimoreans." Generations (Summer 1991): 9.
Levin, Jack L. Sidney Hollander: Beloved Warrior. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Twentieth Century
McClain, William H. "William Kurrelmeyer: German-American 1874-1957." Report of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland 37 (1978): 8-18.
Notes: Biographical sketch of German professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Ethnic History, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
The McKaig Journal, a Confederate Family of Cumberland. Cumberland, MD: Allegheny County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Moser, Liz Kohn. "Growing Up in Two Families: My Two Families: Home and Hochschild, Kohn & Co." Generations (Fall 1998): 8-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Twentieth Century
Olschansky, Al. "Baltimore City in its Heyday: As I Knew it in the 1930s when I was Growing Up." Generations 8 (Spring 1988): 10-12.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Rosenswaike, Ira. "Simon M. Levy: West Point Graduate." American Jewish Historical Quarterly 61 (1971): 69-73.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Military, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Sollins, Helen Burman. "Eleanor Septima Cohen." Generations 5 (June 1984): 19-27.
Solomon Nunes Carvalho: Painter, Photographer and Prophet in Nineteenth Century America. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1989.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Nineteenth Century
Urbas, Anton. "Tony Urbas Has a Career Change." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 37-48.
Ballard, Barbara Jean. Nineteenth-Century Theories of Race, the Concept of Correspondences, and the Images of Blacks in the Anti-slavery Writings of Douglass, Stow, and Browne. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1992.
Categories: African American, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Craven, Wesley Frank. White, Red, and Black: The Seventeenth-Century Virginian. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1971.
Notes: Remains the standard multi-cultural work for the 17th century.
Categories: African American, Ethnic History, Native American, Seventeenth Century
Yentsch, Anne. "Hot, Nourishing, and Culturally Potent: The Transfer of West African Cooking Traditions to the Chesapeake." Sage 9 (Summer 1995): 15-29.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region