EDWARD C. PAPENFUSE, JR., was born in Toledo, Ohio, on October 15, 1943. He has a B.A. in Political Science from American University (1965), an M.A. in history from the University of Colorado (1967), and a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University (1973), where he completed a dissertation entitled "Mercantile Opportunity and Urban Development in a Planting Society...., " subsequently published as In Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchants In the Era of the American Revolution (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
In Pursuit of Profit: The Annapolis Merchants in the Era of the American Revolution. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975).
Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976). With Gregory A. Stiverson, Susan A. Collins, Lois Green Carr.
Law, Society & Politics. The Proceedings of the First Conference on Maryland History. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977). With Aubrey C. Land and Lois Green Carr.
An Inventory of Maryland State Papers, Part I, The Revolutionary War Era, 1775-1789. (Annapolis: Maryland Hall of Records, 1977). With Gregory A. Stiverson and Mary D. Donaldson.
A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, 1985). With David Jordan, Alan Day, Gregory A. Stiverson.
A Guide to the Maryland Hall of Records: Local, Judicial, and Administrative Records on Microform. (Annapolis: Maryland Hall of Records, 1978). With Susan A. Collins and Christopher Allan.
The Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982). With Joseph M. Coale III.
Magna Charta For America. (Philadelphia; The American Philosophical Society, 1986). With Jack P. Greene and Charles F. Mullett.
"The Historian and Local Records: The Need for a Fresh Approach to an Old Problem." American Historical Association Newsletter, May 1971.
"Planter Behavior and Economic Opportunity in a Staple Economy." Agricultural History, April 1972.
"The Public Records of the American Revolutionary Era: Some Suggestions for the Development of Bibliographic Guides." Historical Methods Newsletter, September 1971.
"Finding Aids and the Historian." American Historical Association Newsletter, May 1972.
"General Smallwood's Recruits: The Peacetime Career of the Revolutionary War Private." William and Mary Quarterly, January 1973. (with Dr. Gregory A. Stiverson)
"Preserving the Nation's Heritage through a National Historic Records Program." American Historical Association Newsletter, February 1973. Abstracted in the Italian Archival Journal, Ressegna Degli Di Stato, Anno XXXIII-n. 1, gannaio-aprile 1973, p. 222-223.
"Economic Analysis and Loyalist Strategy During the American Revolution: Robert Alexander's Remarks on the Economy of the Peninsula or Eastern Shore of Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine, Summer 1973.
"The Retreat from Standardization: A comment on the Recent History of Finding Aids." The American Archivist, October, 1973.
"A Modicum of Commitment: The Present and Future Importance of the Historical Records Survey." The American Archivist, April 1974.
Directory of Maryland Legislators, 1635-1789, with Jane W. McWilliams and Carol Tilles. (Annapolis: Maryland Bicentennial Commission, July 1974).
Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Papers of Thomas Sim Lee...., sponsored by the Publications Committee of the Maryland Historical Society, and published by the Maryland Hall of Records as an introduction to the microfilm, 1974.
"Patriotism and Perfidy: The Interconnected Careers of William Paca and Benedict Arnold." Maryland Magazine, June 1975. With Alan F. Day.
"Charles Carroll of Carrollton: English Aristocrat in an American Setting" in "any where so long as there be freedom" Charles Carroll of Carrollton, His Family and His Maryland. (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975).
"Charles Carroll of Carrollton and the Constitution." Maryland Magazine, Summer 1976.
"The Sources and Methods for the Study of a Revolutionary Elite: The Experience of the Maryland Hall of Records Legislative History Project," a paper presented at the Scottish Universities' American Bicentennial Conference, June 25-28, 1976, and abstracted in Scotland, Europe and the American Revolution edited by Owen Dudley Edwards and George Shepperson, 1976, pp. 127-128.
"An Undelivered Defense of a Winning Cause: Charles Carroll of Carrollton's `Remarks on the Proposed Federal Constitution.'" Maryland Historical Magazine, Summer 1976.
"Travel in Revolutionary Maryland" in the 1976 Texaco Travel Atlas, published by Rand McNally.
"Tobacco the Villain? A Comment on the Agricultural History of Maryland in the Decades Following the American Revolution." in Heritage of Agriculture in Maryland, 1776-1976. (Beltsville: National Agricultural Library, 1976).
"Who Should Rule at Home: The Political Elite of Maryland in 1776." With Robert Forster. Paper presented at an International Conference in Warsaw, Poland in 1975 and published in the May-June 1982 issue of Annales, Economies, Societes, Civilisations as "Les Grands Planteurs du Maryland au xviiie siecle: une elite politique et economique," 552-573.
"The Preservation and Uses of State and Local Records," American Archivist, July 1977.
"An Uncertain Connection: Maryland's Trade with France during the American Revolution," paper given at "Colloque International sur la Revolution Americaine et l"Europe" at the Colloque International Patronne Par Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Paris, Centre de recherches d'Histoire Nord Americaine, February 1978. Published in the Proceedings of the colloquium, La Revolution Americaine et L'Europe (Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1979), 243-265.
"Gerer un Patrimoine dans les deux mondes: Les Carroll d'Annapolis (Maryland) and les Depont de La Rochelle (1750-1830)." With Robert Forster. Paper presented in abstentia at le Colloque napoleonien, October 12-14, 1978, of the l'Istituto Storico Italiano per l' eta moderna e contemporanea, and published in the Annuario Dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per L'Eta Moderna E Contemporanea, Volumi XXXIII-XXXIV 1981-1982. (Roma: Istituto Storico Italiano Per L'Eta Moderna E Contemporanea, 1983), 9-23.
"The Legislative Response to a Costly War: Fiscal Policy and Factional Politics in Maryland, 1777-1789." Published in Sovereign States, (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1982) as part of the proceedings of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society Conference "Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty" held March 28 and 29, 1979.
Introductions to The Charter of Maryland and A Declaration of the Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Mary-land, pamphlets in the Maryland Hall of Records 350th Anniversary Document Series, 1982, 1983.
Introduction and general editor for On The Map: Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay, a catalogue of an exhibit of maps held at Washington College, February 21-March 6, 1982.
Series of eight articles on Maryland and the Constitution, Opinion/Commentary, Baltimore SUN, March 3, 1987-April 21, 1987.
"Where is Watkins Point?" in Virginia Geiger, ed. Maryland Our Maryland. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987) 90-110.
"An Afterword: 'With What Dose of Liberty?' Maryland's Role in the Movement for a Bill of Rights," Maryland Historical Magazine, Spring, 1988, 58-68.
"Magna Carta," Baltimore SUN, September 2, 1987. Maryland and the U.S. Constitution, Five Delegates to Philadelphia. (Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1987).
"George Washington: Annapolis Lobbyist Extraordinaire," Baltimore SUN, February 20, 1989.
"Writing It All Down," Baltimore SUN, December 14, 1991, reprinted in the Maryland Humanities Bulletin, Winter, 1992.
"Maryland and the Constitution," in A. E. Dick Howard The Constitution in the Making: Perspectives of the Original Thirteen States (Richmond: ,1993) - . With Chief Judge Robert C. Murphy.
""Doing Good to Posterity" The move of the Capital of Maryland from St. Mary's City to Ann Arundell Towne, Now Called Annapolis." (Annapolis: The Maryland State Archives and the Maryland Historical Trust, 1995).
Reviews of Jacob R. Marcus, The Colonial American Jew, 1492-1776, and Stanley F. Chyet, Lopez of Newport: Colonial American Merchant Prince, in The Historian, August 1972.
Review of James H. Henretta, "Salutary Neglect": Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle, in The Historian, February 1973.
Review of John Reps, Tidewater Towns, in the Maryland Historical Magazine, Winter 1973.
Review of The Pettigrew Papers, Volume 1, 1685-1818, in Agricultural History, January 1974.
Review of David M. Skaggs, Roots of Maryland Democracy, 1753-1776, in the Maryland Historical Magazine, Fall 1974.
Review of James Ferguson and John Catanzariti, The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784. Volume 2: August-September 1781, in The Business History Review, Autumn 1976.
Review of Julian Gwyn, The Enterprising Admiral: The Personal Fortune of Admiral Sir Peter Warren, in The Business History Review, Autumn 1976.
Review of Norman K. Risjord, Chesapeake Politics, 1781-1800, in The Maryland Historian, Fall 1979.
Review of Thomas J. Archdeacon, New York City, 1664-1710, in the Journal of American History, December 1979.
Review of Carl N. Everstine, The General Assembly of Maryland 1634-1776, in the Maryland Historical Magazine, Summer 1981.
Review of David B. Quinn, Early Maryland in a Wider World in the Virginia Historical Magazine,
Review of Ralph Ehrenberg's SAA manual for Maps and Architectural Drawings, in The Public Historian, Fall, 1984.
Review of Bert Noggle, Working with History, The Louisiana Historical Records Survey in the Journal of Southern History, February 1983, 49, no 1: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, The Journal of Southern History,
Review of John W. Tyler, Smugglers and Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution., in the American Historical Review, June 1988, 95(3): 766-767.
Review of John R. Nelson, Property Political Economy and Policymaking in the New Nation, in the American Historical Review, October 1989, Review of Joan D. Hedrick, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life, in the Maryland Historical Magazine, Fall 1994, 89: 363-366.
Review of Parker B. Potter, Jr., Public Archaeology in Annapolis forthcoming in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History
organized Family, Community, Preservation: History, Sources, Methods, the Second Conference on Maryland History, 1977, and participated in several sessions with illustrated lectures on researching and writing local history.
foreword to Geographical Perspectives on Maryland's Past, University of Maryland Occasional Papers in Geography, No. 4, April 1979.
designs and scripts the interpretive exhibits in the Maryland State House for which he was recognized with the Calvert Prize for Historical Preservation in 1988.
"A Sense of Time and Place," foreword to Maryland Time Exposures 1840-1940, by Mame Warren and Marion E. Warren, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
contributed (with Professor Robert Mitchell) to the article on Maryland in the World Book Encyclopedia, 1988.
organized and scripted Joint Sessions of the Legislature including those relating to the 350th anniversary of the founding of Maryland (1984) and the 300th Anniversary of the move of the Capital from St. Mary's City to Annapolis (1995)
designed and presents each year The First Citizen Award of the Maryland Senate which the President of the Senate gives to prominent Marylanders.
designed the Award and wrote the historical introduction to the Speaker's Medallions (in silver and bronze) which are given by the Speaker of the House of Delegates each year to distinguished Marylanders.
foreword in The Eye of the Beholder, a catalogue of the exhibit of the photographs of Marion Warren (Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989).
foreword to From Slavery to Salvation. Tbe Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry of the A.M.E. Church, by Jean Libby. (Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1994).
designed, scripted and wrote the pamphlet guide for the traveling exhibit Colonial Encounters for the Library of the Johns Hopkins University, 1994
Editor and Publisher of the Archives of Maryland, new series. Volume I, An Historical List of Public Officials of Maryland, Governors, Legislators, and Other Principal Officers of Government, 1632-1990 (Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1990).
Managing editor and publisher since 1975 of the Maryland Manual, the authoritative guide to Maryland state government, extracts from which are also available on the World Wide Web at the Maryland State Archives website: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us Most recent edition: 1995-1996.
Initiated, helps design, and is ultimately responsible for the contents and integrety of the information provided on the Maryland State Archives Web site. This has included the successful advocacy of a fiber-optic backbone for communication among State Agencies centered at the State Archives that will greatly strengthen the Archives role in the preservation of permanently valuable government information available only in an electronic format.
Program and Specifications. Maryland State Archives, December 1974. (Addresses need for additional space).
Program and Specifications. Maryland State Archives, April 1980. (Addresses total space needs of the Archives and resulted the construction of the new Hall of Records in 1986, a building that included the largest installation to that time of compact shelving for archival material, and which was in both construction and equipment completed for $1.5 million dollars less than its $8.9 million dollar appropriation. Subsequently served as a paid consultant for the building of the Missouri State Archives).
Annual Report for Fiscal Years 1978- . (Addresses the operational needs of the Maryland Archives and is distributed at the budget hearings before the Governor and the Legislature).
Close Encounters of the First Kind, 1585-1767, MSA SC 2221-17
Daily Life in the New World, 1634-1715, MSA SC 2221-3
All the News? 1765-1775, MSA SC 2221-21
From Indignant Protest to Hesitant Revolutionaries: Maryland and the American Revolution, 1765-1776, MSA SC 2221-2
Writing It All Down: The Art of Constitution Making for the State and the Nation, 1776-1833, MSA SC 2221-4
In the Aftermath of 'Glory': Black Soldiers & Sailors from Annapolis Maryland, 1863-1918, MSA SC 2221-8
Celebrating Rights and Responsibilities:
The Baltimore Railroad Strike & Riot of 1877, MSA SC 2221-9
From Segregation to Integration: The Donald Murray Case, 1935-1937, MSA SC 2221-1
Teaches courses in historical methods, archival management, U.S. History, Maryland History, and the use of document packets he has developed for use in the schools. He gives numerous public lectures on Maryland History, the Cartography of Maryland, and archival theory and practice. He is currently teaching a graduate level course on Maryland History and an undergraduate seminar in historical method separately from his responsibilities as State Archivist.
"Archival Sampling: An Unacceptable Method of Preserving Records." A paper presented at the 1975 annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Philadelphia.
"The Records of Public Officials." A paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 11, 1976.
Comments on "Finding Aid Programs" in Report on the Conference on Automated Guide Projects sponsored by the National Association of State Archives and Records Administrators, July 19-20, 1977, St. Louis, Missouri.
"Legal Aspects of Recent Replevin Efforts in Maryland." Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 5, 1977.
"Maryland History and the Beginning of Trade with China (1785)" a translated briefing and exhibit for the visiting delegation from Anhui Province, China, September 10, 1979.
"The Tale of Two Families, The Randalls and the Butlers: An Adventure in Reconstructing Family History." A lecture in the Explorations in the Walters series, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, November 28, 1979.
"The Records of Maryland's Trade, 1775-1795: An Appraisal." paper read at the 1979 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association and to be published as the introduction to a Guide to Naval Office Records in the Hall of Records.
"Archival Automation: The View from a State Archives." Paper presented at the University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services Symposium on Archival Automation, April 25-26, 1980.
"Public Records and Replevin in Maryland." An address to the Annual Meeting of The Manuscript Society, May 23, 1980.
briefings on Maryland history and government for visiting Chinese and Japanese delegations, translated for general distribution, in 1980 and again in 1981.
"Intrinsic Value of Records as an Appraisal Tool," paper given at Fall 1981 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference.
Keynote address to the Maryland Historical Trust and the Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities, on "Maryland History: Research and Revision," November 7, 1981.
Illustrated talk on Charles Wilson Peale's Annapolis for the 18th Century Studies conference at the Naval Academy, October 1984.
Illustrated talk on the mystery of the Maryland Charter Manuscript known as the "Houghton Manuscript," for the Baltimore Bibliophiles, May 1987.
Illustrated talk on the Ratification of the Treaty of Paris in Annapolis, given at several locations in the State during bicentennial in 1984.
Illustrated lecture on the "Historiography of Early Maryland: From Avocation to Occupation," given at several locations in 1984 and 1985.
Illustrated lecture on "The House on Francis Street [Annapolis]" given on several occasions, beginning in 1977.
Illustrated lecture on "The Annapolis Convention" given on several occasions, beginning in 1986.
Illustrated lecture on "The Amending Fathers' given on several occasions beginning in 1987.
Lecture on "Baltimore: 'Mob Town' or 'Crucible for Democracy?," Contemporary Club, November 1987.
Paper on "Changing Perceptions of Representation in Maryland, 1765-1800" at the OAH Annual Meeting, April 1989.
Illustrated lecture on "Bernard Christian Steiner, Maryland Historian Extraordinaire" for the Steiner Memorial Lecture, the Maryland Historical Society, November 1989.
Talk on "Three Centuries of Creative Financing in Maryland" for the 22nd Conference of Northeast State Treasurers, June 1990.
Series of Lectures with noted Ecologist Charles Stein on the historical context of the rivers of Maryland featuring the Potomac, the Susquehanna, and the Pocomoke, 1991-1993
Robert H. McCauley Lecture, Washington County Free Library, on sources for the history of Western Maryland at the Maryland State Archives, November 1991. Banquet speaker, Maryland Genealogical Society, "Genealogists, Archivists and Historians, with apologies to mark Twain and Dave Berry," March 1992.
Banquet speaker for the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Historical Geography Association, October 1992.
Lecture on "The World of Philip Calvert," to the Friends of St. Mary's City, April 1993.
Keynote address to the National Genealogical Society, June 1993.
Address to the H. L. Mencken Society on "H. L. Mencken as Spokesman for the Republican Party," September 1993. Lecture to the Association of Documentary Editors on the use of Documentary editions in the classroom, October 1993.
Lectures to law classes and lawyers on the decision in the Marquardt Case, February and March 1994.
Remarks to the Maryland Senate. First Citizen Award ceremonies, February 17, 1995 and February 7, 1996.
Speech at a Special Joint Session of the Maryland General Assembly, February 28, 1995
Remarks to the Maryland House of Delegates on the historical importance of the Mace and the Great Seal of Maryland which are incorporated into the design of the Speaker's Medallion, on the occasion of the award of the Speaker's Medallion
Remarks at opening of exhibit of portraits of Maryland's First Ladies and Official Hostesses in Government House, March 29, 1995
Remarks at unveiling of portrait of Spiro Agnew in Maryland State House, April 13, 1995
Commencement Address at University of Maryland College of Information Services (CLIS), May 19, 1995
Talk at Chesapeake Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, October 31, 1995
Tenth Annual Archer Memorial Lecture, co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Harford County and the Harford Community College, November 5, 1995
Annual M.L.A. Faculty Lecture at The Johns Hopkins University, November 12, 1995
Speech to the Society of the Ark and Dove, November 19