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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Tyson, John S. The Founders of Ellicott's Mills. Privately printed, sold for the benefit of the Maryland Historical Society, 1994.
Notes: A series of articles originally published in 1847 in the <em>Howard District Press</em>.

Weeks, Christopher. "Bouncing Along the Post Road: Eighteenth Century Harford County as Seen by Travelers." Harford Historical Bulletin 57 (Summer 1993): 74-127.
Notes: Annotated excerpts from ten contemporary descriptions of traveling along the post road. The authors include such well known Colonial figures as Dr. Alexander Hamilton, Charles Willson Peale, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

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.

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.

Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.
Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.

Windsor Hills: A Century of History. Baltimore: Windsor Hills Neighbors, Inc., 1995.

Chappell, Helen. "The Great Dorchester Marsh." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 14-17.

Davis, Lynn. "Garden Roots." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 154-67.

DeGast, Robert. Western Wind, Eastern Shore: A Sailing Cruise Around the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
Notes: De Gast sails a small boat around the entire DelMarVa Peninsula, an interesting voyage with useful observations.

Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore. Seventeen Maryland Rivers. New York: Holt Reinhart and Winston, 1944.
Notes: Footner writes mostly stories about history, but he does view Chesapeake river environments from a mid-1940s perspective.

Heckscher, Christopher M. "Distribution and Habitat Associations of the Eastern Mud Salamander, Pseudotriton montanus, on the Delmarva Peninsula." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 11-14.

Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.

100 Years, 1888-1988: The Daily Record. Baltimore: The Daily Record, 1988.

"300 Years of Printing in Maryland." Historic St. Mary's City Newsletter 7 (Winter 1985/86): 3.

Allison, John. "Poe in Melville's 'The Bell-Tower.'" Poe Studies 29 (June 1996): 9-18.

Amrhine, Kenneth W. "The Day Mencken was Arrested." Menckeniana 98 (Summer 1986): 10-12.

Anderson, Fenwick. "Mencken's Animadversions on Journalism." Menckeniana 53 (Spring 1975): 6-8.

Anderson, James Mark. H. L. Mencken's Nietzsche: Recovering a Lost Tradition. Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1998.

Anderson, Mark. "Mencken, Nietzsche and Greek Gods." Menckeniana 142 (Summer 1997): 14-16.

Arner, Robert D. "Clio's Rhimes: History and Satire in Ebenezer Cooke's 'History of Bacon's Rebellion.'" Southern Literary Journal 6 (Spring 1974): 91-106.

Baer, John. "Hamlet Translated into Pennsylvania Dutch?" Menckeniana 110 (Summer 1989): 13-16.
Notes: H. L. Mencken.

Baker, Russell. "Me and Mencken." Menckeniana 127 (Fall 1993): 1-5.

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