The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Ashbury, John W. ...and all our yesterdays: A Chronicle of Frederick County, Maryland. Frederick, MD: Diversions Publications, 1997.
Notes: An unusual local history arranged in a datebook\\calendar format. Three to six events are given for each date, one is described in greater depth than the others in a 1-2 page essay. The book's excellent index makes this work amazingly useful.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Frederick County
Assateague Island National Seashore (Maryland): An Administrative History. Washington, DC: Superintendent of Documents, 1982.
Categories: County and Local History, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Tricentennial Community Associations History Committee. Association and Community Histories of Prince George's County. [Upper Marlboro, MD]: Prince George's County, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Prince George's County
Atlas of Howard County, Maryland, 1878. Ellicott City, MD: Howard County Bicentennial Commission, Inc., 1975.
Notes: Originally part of G. M. Hopkins atlas.
Atrim, Shane. "A Blue Dog Night?" Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): [39].
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Charles County
Atterbury, G. E. "London Town Public House: Landmark from the Past." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 7 (June 1977): 24-26.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Baden, Jacqueline Heppes. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Place Apart. 2 vols. Rockville, MD: Travel on Tape, Book Division, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Badger, Curtis J. Worcester: A Pictorial Review. Accomac, VA: Eastern Shore News, Inc., 1974.
Categories: County and Local History, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Baker, Nancy T. "Annapolis, Maryland, 1695-1730." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Fall 1986): 191-209.
Notes: This study describes the first phase in Annapolis's development as an urban center. It covers the period in which the community progressed from a settlement to a city. This period was marked by three patterns of development -- the acquisition of land, a growth in the population, and the town's evolution as a market for imported goods.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Ball, Walter V. "The History of Mount Pleasant." Montgomery County Story 20 (February 1977): 8-12.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Baltimore's Beginnings: A Guide to 23 Historically Significant Baltimore Communities. Fells Point, MD: Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point, Inc., 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Baltimore City
Baltz, Shirley V. "Annapolis on the Threshold." Maryland Historical Magazine 81 (Fall 1986): 222-27.
Notes: A description of Annapolis as it was when the 1786 Annapolis Convention convened.
Categories: County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Baltz, Shirley V., ed. A Chronicle of Belair. Bowie, MD: Bowie Heritage Committee, 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Harford County
Baltz, Shirley V. The Quays of the City: An Account of the Bustling Eighteenth Century Port of Annapolis. Annapolis, MD: Liberty Tree, Ltd. [1975].
Categories: County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Barnett, Todd H. "Tobacco, Planters, Tenants, and Slaves: A Portrait of Montgomery County in 1783." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Summer 1994): 184-203.
Notes: Using the Maryland State Assessment of 1783, this study evaluates the condition of the Montgomery County community. Montgomery was the western most of Maryland's tobacco counties. This economy left Montgomery with exhausted farmland, as well as a poor, landless, and unstable population. Comparison is made with Frederick where the soil was essentially the same but had not been damaged by tobacco farming.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County, Montgomery County
Barron, Lee. The History of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Sharpsburg, MD: [Published by the author], 1972.
Categories: County and Local History, Washington County
Barrow, Healan J. Sykesville: Past and Present. Sykesville, MD: Greenberg Publishing Co., 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Carroll County, Howard County
Barrow, Healan J., and Kristine Stevens. Olney: Echoes of the Past. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Montgomery County
Basalik, Kenneth J. Urban Development in the Eastern United States: An Archaeological View of Baltimore, Maryland. Ph.D. diss., Temple University, 1994.
Notes: A study of Baltimore's urban development through the reading of four archeological sites. Basalik poses the question of whether changes in the political economy can be seen in the archeological record. He also addresses whether or not urban archeology is a distinct field of archeology.
Categories: County and Local History
Bataller, Neal. "Ednor and Norwood-Quiet Reminders of the Past." Legacy 19 (Fall 1999): 1, 5.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
"A Bay for All Seasons." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): F28-F29, F31, F33.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Bayley, Ned. "Colesville-In the Beginning." Montgomery County Story 36 (February 1993): 237-48.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Bayley, Ned. Colesville: The Development of a County, Its People and its Natural Resources, Over a Period of Four Centuries. Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Montgomery County
"The Beaches of Calvert: The Stuff of Dreams." Annapolitan 5 (April 1991): 22-24.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Beirne, D. Randall. "Hampden - Woodberry: The Mill Village in an Urban Setting." Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (Spring 1982): 6-26.
Notes: Although this Baltimore neighborhood is no longer a mill town, the area's geographic and social isolation has allowed it, in many ways, to preserve its mill town character. It is a largely homogenous community, predominantly working class.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City