The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Hollifield, William. "Caroline Felix - Part II; The Later Chapmans." History Trails 16 (Spring 1982): 9-12; 17 (Autumn 1982): 4.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Hollifield, William. "Caroline Felix-Part I." History Trails 16 (Winter 1981/82): 5-8.
Notes: Letters of Baltimore County farmer William Chapman, 1831.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Hooper, Anne B. Braddock Heights: A Glimpse Backward. Published by the author, 1974.
Notes: Braddock's history during its years as a major resort. Included are local legends and recipes. The second half of the book is a walking tour.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
King, Julia A. "Rural Life in Mid-19th Century St. Mary's County: The Susquehanna Farm at Cedar Point." Chronicle of St. Mary's 38 (Spring 1990): 289-300.
Notes: A discussion of the nineteenth century rural character of St. Mary's County as seen through life at Susquehanna Farm. Two worlds inhabited the farm. The world of the land owner and his family and the world of the slaves who worked the farm.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Love, Mary I. "'The Mountain Chautauqua': Mountain Lake Park 1881-1941." Glades Star 5 (March 1982): 385-401; (September 1982): 434-35.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Marks, Bayly Ellen. "The Tax Assessor's Portrait of a County." History Trails 30 (Autumn-Winter 1995-1996): 1-5.
Notes: A study of Baltimore County structures in eight of the County's twelve hundreds, using information gleaned from the 1798 tax assessment. The assessment provides an inventory of structures with exact measurements. Through this early government document it is possible to deduce how people lived.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County
Mellin, Jack. "Gambrills Ephemera (Part III)." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (April 1995): 7, 16; Part IV, (July 1995): 7, 14.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Merrill, Philip J., and Uluaipou-O-Malo Aiono. Baltimore. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Notes: Part of Arcadia's <em>Black America Series</em>, this photohistory, which uses a variety of graphic materials, gives a visual introduction to Baltimore as documented through the lives of its black citizens. Many of the photographs are the work of black photographers.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Pogue, Dennis J. King's Reach and 17th-Century Plantation Life. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1990.
Notes: A discussion of the archeological digs at King's Reach and what the findings tell of life at the time, focussing on what can be learned of the plantation's physical layout.
Categories: Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Southern Maryland
"Prose from a Farm Ledger." History Trails 11 (Autumn 1976): 1-6.
Notes: Charles Jessop (1759-1828).
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Riley, Elihu S. "The Ancient City." History of Annapolis, in Maryland. 1649-1887. 1887; reprint, Annapolis: Anne Arundel County Bicentennial Commission, 1976.
Notes: A reprint of an 1887 work. It is largely arranged by date, presenting important events which occurred in the city during the years. Interspersed amongst these dates are occasional chapters written on a theme, covering a span of years, such as theater, the state house, and "Illustrious Anapolitans." It is very well indexed and includes an abridgement of Father Andrew White's Journal.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Music and Theater, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Roberts, Keith. A History of the Back River Neck Peninsula. Published by the author, [1993].
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Baltimore County
Robinson, John M. "History of Pinehurst-Part I." Anne Arundel County History Notes 21 (January 1990): 3-4.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Maritime, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Rothwell, Kate. "Austin's Alley." Frederick Magazine (January 1993): 24-9.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
"St. Mary's County Adopts an Official Song." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 72-73.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, St. Mary's County
Sarson, Steven James. Wealth, Poverty and Labor in the Tobacco Plantation South: Prince George's County, Maryland, in the Early National Era. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1998.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Shomette, Donald. London Town: A Brief History. Londontown, MD: London Town Public House Commission, Inc., 1978.
Notes: Londontown, located on the South River, was a very early example of successful town planning in Maryland. The community, however, did not have any long term success due to its economic base in the tobacco system.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Stone, Mary C. "St. Mary's County Foodways Prior to 1941, and Particularly During the Depression Years of the 1930's." Chronicles of St. Marys 24 (August 1976): 173-83.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Women, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Sutton, Stanley B. Beyond the Roadgate: Kent County, 1900-1980. Privately published, 1983.
Notes: This history of twentieth century Kent was compiled by a former Agricultural Extension Officer. Naturally enough, a great deal of emphasis is placed on the agricultural and rural heritage of the County. Pivotal 1980 leaders of the county supply commentary on their areas of expertise.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Medicine, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Truitt, Charles J. Historic Salisbury Updated 1662-1982. Salisbury, MD: Historical Books, Inc., 1982.
Notes: As the author states, this is an "encyclopedic history", almost every conceivable subject is addressed including health care facilities, agribusiness, sports, the Delmarva separatist movements, the slave trade, fires, and so on. It is especially useful in the documentation it presents of the varied twentieth century society.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Transportation and Communication, Wicomico County
Walker, J. "Clarke Place." Frederick Magazine (May 1992): 11.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Wennersten, Jack. "Behind the Wire: When the Afrika Korps Came to Somerset County." Maryland Magazine 14 (Autumn 1982): 6-7.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Military, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
White, Dan. Crosscurrents in Quiet Water: Portraits of the Chesapeake. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987.
Notes: A photo essay of the changing lives of the Eastern Shore's peoples focusing on watermen, boat builders, environmentalists, and chicken farmers. Special emphasis is placed on Smith Island and Crisfield. Photographs by Jon Naso and Marion Warren.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore