VIII. Coming to Baltimore: A Selected Bibliography on Immigration

[Dean Krimmel (410-467-2128), March 1999]

Anderson, Patricia D. “Maryland’s Ethnic Organizations.” Maryland Geneological Society Bulletin 34 (1993): pp. 263-268.

Blum, Isidor. The Jews of Baltimore: An Historical Summary of Their Progress and Status as Citizens of Baltimore fromEarly Days to the Year Nineteen Hundred and Ten. Baltimore and Washington, DC: Historical Review Publishing Co., 1910.

Caraveli, Anna. Scattered in Foreign Lands: A Greek Village in Baltimore. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985.

Carrick, Diane. “Residential Persistance of Baltimore’s Italians,” 1880-1920. M.A., University of Maryland, 1977.

Chin, Leslie. History of Chinese-Americans in Baltimore. Baltimore: Greater Baltimore Chinese-American Bicentennial Committee, c. 1976.

Cholochwost, Thomas. “Baltimore’s Polish Pioneers.” Maryland Magazine of Genealogy 5 (1982): pp. 3-7.

——————-. “The Emergence of Baltimore’s Polonia.” Polish Heritage 35 (1984): p. 12.

Cunz, Dieter. The Maryland Germans, A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1948.

Echterkamp, Jörg. “Emerging Ethnicity: The German Experience in Antebellum Baltimore.” Maryland Historical Magazine 86 (Spring 1991): pp. 1-22.

Esslinger, Dean R. “Baltimore: Symbolic Sentinel” in Gail Stern, ed. Freedom’s Doors: Immigrants and Ports of Entry to the United States. Philadelphia: The Balch Institute Press, 1986. (pp. 35-46.)

—————-. “Immigration through the Port of Baltimore” in Mark Stolarik, ed., Forgotten Doors: The Other Ports of Entry into the United States. Philadelphia: The Balch Institute Press, 1988. (pp. 61-78.)

Fein, Isaac M. The Making of an American Jewish Community: The History of Baltimore Jewry from 1773 to 1920. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1970.

Fenchak, Paul et al. The Ukranians of Maryland. Baltimore: Ukranian Education Association of Maryland, Inc., [1978?].

Guertler, John T. and Adele M. Newberger. The Records of Baltimore’s Private Organizations New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1981.

Hobbs, Donald Austin. “The Impact of Immigrant Groups on the Public School System of Baltimore.” M.A., University of Maryland, 1960.

Kornbluh, Andrea T. “From Culture to Cuisine: Twentieth-Century Views on Race and Ethnicity in the City,” in Howard Gillette Jr and Zane Miller American Urbanism A Historigraphical Review. Greenwich, CN: Greenwood Press, 1987. (pp.49-72) [An interesting non-Baltimore source; EPFL cat #: HT 123.A6665 1987]

Luckey, George B. “America’s Largest Immigrant Pier,” Book of the Royal Blue VII (July 1904), pp.1-10. [Published by the Passenger Department, B&O Railroad]

Neils, Kathleen Mary. “Trade Relations Between Bremen and Baltimore during the 1830s.” M.A., University of Delaware, 1966.

Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.

Prevas, Nicholas M. History of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Annunciation, Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore: John D. Lucas, 1982.

Reilly, Sara Jean. “The Italian Immigrants: 1920-1930: A Case Study in Baltimore.” M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1962. [Full study of settlement organizations, etc.]

Rosenwaike, Ira. “The Jews of Baltimore: 1810-1820.” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 67 (1977): pp. 101-24.

Swanson, Mary. “A Study of the Polish Organizations of Baltimore.” M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1925.

Sweeney, M. Rosewin. “Sonny Mahon and Baltimore’s Irish Machine: Ethnic Politics in a Semi-Southern Setting.” M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1979.

Tepper, Michael. American Passenger Arrival Records A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam Baltimore: Geneological Publishing Company, 1988. [Includes important information about Baltimore, as well as a good overview of the period of mass migration.]

Torrieri, Nancy. “Residential Dispersal and the Surival of the Italian Community in Metropolitan Baltimore, 1920-1980.” Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1982.

Votto, LeRoy. “Social Dynamics in a Boom Town: The Scots-Irish in Baltimore, 1760-1790.” M.A., University of Virginia, 1969.

Williams, Harold A. History of the Hibernian Society of Baltimore, 1803-1957. Baltimore: Hibernian Society of Baltimore, 1957.

Wust, Klaus G. Zion in Baltimore, 1755-1955. Baltimore: Zion Church of the City of Baltimore, 1955.