Maryland State Archives

All readings are available on line at: http://msa.maryland.gov, user name judicial and password judicial!

Please note that because of copyright restrictions, access to some of the files may also be further restricted by user name and password. In those cases the user name is aaco and the password is aaco#

Required Reading:

Carroll Taney Bond, The Court of Appeals in Maryland: A History. Baltimore: Barton-Gillet, 1928, especially chapter 6, pp. 153-178 on the Court of Appeals during the Civil War era

Alan M. Wilner, The Maryland Board of Public Works: A History. (Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1984), pp. 35-58.

Dan Friedman, excerpt from The History, Development, and Interpretation of the Marland Declaration of Rights, Temple Law Review, v. 71, 637 (1998), pp. 640-642.

Requested Reading: Chapters on the Civil war in

Matthew Page Andrews. History of Maryland: Province and State. (New York: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1929)

Robert J. Brugger. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980. ( Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)

Morris L. Radoff, ed. The Old Line State. (Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1971)

Richard Walsh and William Lloyd Fox. Maryland A History. (Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1983)

Recommended Reading:

chapters on the life of Roger Brooke Taney, posted on the web site by:

Carl Swisher

Bernard Christian Steiner

Walker Lewis

any other materials posted on the web site, but particularly the biographical material relating to:

John Merryman

Roger Brooke Taney

Henry Winter Davis

Reverdy Johnson.

Elizabeth Turner

Other addresses from the same meeting:
Judge W. Calvin Chestnut - "History of the Federal Courts in Maryland"
Edward S. Delaplaine - "The Home of Taney"
Hon. Dean G. Acheson - "Roger Brooke Taney: Notes Upon Judicial Self-Restraint"

Electronic access to Niles was made possible by the Maryland State Law Library from whom a reprint copy of this seminal work can be obtained. As the copy that the State Library has on line is not fully searchable within their pdf, I have supplied for the use of the Seminar only, a fully searchable pdf.