Many elementary teachers have asked for a list of suggested resources to use while teaching Maryland’s past to present. Listed below are some suggested books, however, the list is not comprehensive in that it has not included videos, websites, people and primary documents.

Maryland : A History of Its People, Teacher’s Resource Guide, Adomanis, James #0-8018-3402-3.

Maryland : A History of Its People, Student Activities Book, Adomanis, James #0-8018-3403

A Geography of Maryland, Vera F. Rollo #0-017882-10-5

Maryland, My State, Teacher’s Resources, Houghton Mifflin #0-395-54722-9

Maryland Government and Politics, Laslo V. Boyd #0-87033-362-3

Our Maryland, Jane Eagen and Jeanne McGinnis #0-87905-233-3

America the Beautiful: Maryland, Gregory A. Stiverson #0-516-00466-2

Your Maryland: A History, Vera F. Rollo published by Maryland Historical Press #0-917882-35-0

Maryland Personalities: The Black Experience in Maryland, Vera F. Rollo, published by Maryland Historical Press #9994244787 (out of print)

Maryland Today: A Geography, Vera F. Rollo published by Maryland Historical Press #0-927882-49-0

1630-1760

The Maryland Colony, Dennis Brindell Fradin #0-516-00394

People of the Breaking Day, Marcia Sewall #0-689-31407-8

Eating the Plates: A Pilgrim Book of Food and Manners, Penner, Lucille, Recht. #0-027709-01-9

The Land of Grey Wolf, Locker, Thomas #0-8037-0936-6

Calico Bush, Field, Rachel #0-440-40368-5

Night Journeys, Avi #0-394-94116-0

The Maryland Colony, Fradin, Dennis # 0-516-00394-1

The Complete Drawings of John White: America 1585, Paul Hulton, North Carolina Press, 1984. #0-807818-05-1 (out of print)

Indians of Early Maryland, Harold R. Manakee, Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1981. #0-938420-40-2

Myne Owne Ground, Race and Freedom on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, T.H. Breen and S. Innes, Oxford University Press, 1982. #0-195032-06-3

Making Thirteen Colonies, Joy Hakim #0-19-512754-4

1760-1800

The Maryland Colony, Dennis Brindell Fradin #0-516-00394

April Morning, Howard Fast. 1983 #0-553273-22-1

What’s the Bit Idea, Ben Franklin?, Coward #0-698-20543X

Slumps, Grunts, and Snickerdoodles, What Colonial America Ate and Why, Perl, Lila #0-395-28923-8

The Arts and Sciences: A Sourcebook on Colonial America, Smith, Carter #1-56294-037-6

Battles in a New Land: a Sourcebook on Colonial America, Smith Carter #1-56294-034-1

Daily Life: A Sourcebook on Colonial America, Smith, Carter #0-1-56294-038-4

Governing and Teaching: A Sourcebook on Colonial America, Smith, Carter #0-5629-036-8

George Washington: Leader of a New Nation, Osborne, Mary Pope #0-8037-0947-1

SHH! We’re Writing the Constitution, Fritz, Jean #0-399-21403-8

Going to School in 1776, Loeiper, John #0-689-30089-1

What Are You Figuring Now? A Story about Benjamin Banneker, Jeri Ferris, Carolrhoda Books, 1990. #0-876145-21-7

The World Turned Upside Down, Children 0f 1776: Story of an Annapolis Family During the American Revolutionary War, Annapolis, Md, 1993. Ann Jensen #0-963811-30-4

Two Tickets to Freedom, Freedman, Florence B.Freedman, Scholastic, Inc. 1989. #0-872262-21-9

A Thief on Morgan’s Plantation, Lisa Banim 1995. #1-881889-62-9

The Chester Town Tea Party, Brenda Seabrooke #0-870330422-0

18^th Century Clothing, Bobbie Kalman #0-86505-492-4

*****There is a whole series of Colonial books that are excellent and appropriate for Colonial Maryland.

1800-1870

The Dawn’s Early Light, Steven Kroll, Scholastic, Inc. #0-590450-54-9

Cassie’s Journey Going West, Harvey, Brett #0-8234-0684-9

Caddie Woodlawn, Brink, Carol #0-02-713670-1

The New Nation, Joy Hakim 0-669-36013-9

Liberty for All, Joy Hakim Oxford University Press #0-195095-10-3

War, Terrible War, Joy Hakim, Oxford University Press #0-195077-55-5

The Boy That Save the Town, Brenda Seabrooke, Tidewater Publishers #0-87033-405-0

A Minty, A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, Alan and Jerry Pinkey Schroeder, Dial Books #0-803718-88-8

1870-1910

Reconstruction and Reform, Joy Hakim, Oxford University Press #0-195127-641

The Zebra Riding Cowboy: A Folk song from the Old West, Medearis, Angela #0-8050-1712-7

Wagon Wheels, Brenner, Barbara #0-06-020669-1

The People’s Chronology, Trager #0-03-017811-8

Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, Jeffers, Susan #0-8037-0963-3

Prairie Songs, Conrad, Pam #0-06-021337-X

The Man Who Was Poe, Avi, #0-531-05833-6

My Prairie Christmas, Harvey Brett #0-8234-0827-2

The Long Way to a New Land, Sandin, Joan #0-060444100-8

The Long Way Westward, Sandin, Joan#0-06-444198-9

Lily and Miss Liberty, Stevens, Carol #0-590-44919-2

Songs of the Wild West, Axelrod, Alan #0-671-74775-4

1910-1945

The Age of Extremes, Joy Hakim, Oxford University Press #0-195077-59-8

Chesapeake Duke, Gilbert Bryon, Tidewater Publishing #0-870332-10-4 (out of print)

The Wright Brothers and How They Invented the Airplane, Freedman, Russell #0-8234-0875-2

The Story of Henry Ford and the Automobile, Kent, Zachary #0-516-94751-5

Picture History of the 20^th Century: 1900-1919, Tames, Richard #0-531-141810

Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh,, Burleigh, Robert #0-399-22272-3

A Song for Uncle Harry, Kheridian, David #0-399-21895-5

A Long Way to Go, Oneal, Zibby #0-670-82532-8

The Crash of ’29 and the New Deal, Glassman, Bruce #0-382-06978-1

The Franklin Roosevelts, Sandak, Cass #0-89686-639-4

The Children of the Dust Bowl, Stanley, Jerry #0-517-58782-3

Picture History of the 20^th Century: The 1920s, Tames, Richard #0-531-14182-9

Picture History of the 20^th Century: the 1930s, Tames, Richard #0-531-14059-8

War Peace and All That Jazz, Joy Hakim, Oxford University Press. #0-195110-79-X

1945-1999

The Awesome Chesapeake, Marcy Dunn Ramsey and David Bell, Tidewater Publishing, Inc. #0-87033-457-3

Chadwick Forever, Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishing, Inc. #0-870334-50-6

Chadwick The Crab, Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishing, Inc. #0-87333-47-X

Oswald and the Timberdoodles, Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishing, Inc. #0-870334-11-5

Sid and Sal’s Famous Channel Marker Diner, Priscilla Cummings, Tidewater Publishing, Inc. #0-870334-23-9

All the People, Joy Hakim, Oxford University Press. #0195077644

Jacob Have I Loved, Patterson, Katerine #0-690-04079-2

Picture History of the 20^th Century: the 1940s, Tames, Richard #0-531-14035-0

If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King, Levine, Ellen #0-590-42582-X

Picture History of the 20^th Century: The 1950s, Tames, Richard #0-531-14034-2

The Wall, Buntings, Eve #0-395-51588-2

Our Voyage to the Moon, Cobblestone Magazine, Cobblestone Publishing Company

The Story of the Great Society, Foster, Leila #0-516-04755-8

A Twilight Struggle: the Life of John F. Kennedy, Harrison, Barbara #0-688-08830-9

The Story of the Peace Corps, Kent, Zachary #0-516-04752-3

The Day We Walked on the Moon: A Photo History of Space Exploration, Sullivan, George #0-590-43632-5

Picture History of the 20^th Century: the 1960s, Tames, Richard #0-531-14035-0

Mommies At Work, Merriam, Eve #0-671-64386-X

What Was Watergate?, Killian, Pamela #0-312-04446-1

The Great Steam of History, Nadel, Laurie #0-689-31559-7

Samantha Smith: Journey to the Soviet Union, Smith, Samantha #0-316-80175-5

Picture History of the 20^th Century: The 1980s, Tames, Richard #0-531-14079-2

Can a Coal Scuttle Fly?, Camay Calloway Murphy #0-938420-55-0

Flute’s Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush, Cherry, Lynne Harcourt Brace & Company

In addition to specific books on Maryland’s history and geography, I have included books that “generically” cover the time periods. Any resource that has information on the thirteen colonies and developing a new nation would be appropriate for the early time periods. It is almost impossible to find specific “Maryland” text appropriate for elementary students for last three identified time periods. I have included books that would “represent” life in Maryland during these periods.

Created by Marcie Taylor-Thoma. MSDE

Revised 8-6-99