The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Stinson, Ann. Hoopers Island: Today and Many Yesterdays; A Brief History of Hooper's Island Compiled from the Written and Oral Accounts of the People Who Have Lived There. Easton, MD: Easton Publishing Co., 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Dorchester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Strain, Paula M. The Blue Hills of Maryland: History Along the Appalachian Trail on South Mountain and the Catoctins. Vienna, VA: Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, 1993.
Notes: Strain states that the Maryland portion of the Appalachian Trail has more history than any other part of the path. She presents this history as one would encounter it along the trail, heading north from Harpers Ferry to Pennsylvania. A great deal of this history relates to the Civil War. She also tells the history of the Trail itself.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Military, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Frederick County, Washington County, Civil War
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
Thomas, Joseph Brown, Jr. Settlement, Community, and Economy: The Development of Towns in Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, 1660-1775. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1994.
Notes: Thomas argues that the seventeen clustered settlements that dotted the lower Eastern Shore actually functioned as towns. Although legislatively established they have been largely ignored in the history of the Chesapeake region. Most historians argue that the area was rural, when in fact its character was between urban and rural.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Dorchester County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Tidwell, William A. "Charles County: Confederate Cauldron." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 16-27.
Notes: Although largely rural and poorly populated, Charles County played an important role during the Civil War. A very large number of its citizens were actively involved in Confederate activities to the point where Charles County could be seen as a Confederate underground. The most well known related event was John Wilkes Booth's escape attempt through the County.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Charles County
Toomey, Daniel Carroll. A History of Relay, Maryland, and the Thomas Viaduct. Published by The Author, 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Howard County
Toomey, Daniel Carroll. A History of Relay, Maryland, and the Thomas Viaduct. Baltimore: Toomey Press, 1984; revised edition. Linthicum, MD: Toomey Press, 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Howard County
Torrusio, Michael, Jr. "Hoopers Island, This Way." Annapolis Quarterly (Fall 1997): 55-63, 135.
Categories: County and Local History, Dorchester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Towers, Frank. "Secession in an Urban Context: The Class and Political Background of Baltimore's Southern Sympathizers." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1998): 3.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Seventeenth Century, Baltimore City
Warren, Morris. "Help Me Find Birmingham Manor." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 19 (April 1991): 18-19.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Prince George's County
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Harford County, Montgomery 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
White, Roger. "Admiral: One of Anne Arundel's Vanished Villages." Anne Arundel County History Notes 24 (July 1993): 5-6, 9-11.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "Seventy-Five Years Ago in Odenton." Anne Arundel County History Notes 24 (April 1993): 11.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Willman, W. G. "Pipe Creek." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (September 1987): 3.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County
Wilson, Woodrow T. Crisfield, Maryland, 1676-1976. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1977.
Notes: A scrapbook conglomeration of information on Crisfield, its peoples, and the nearby island communities and the town of Marion. Written for the American Bicentennial there is a great deal of emphasis placed on the town's celebration, including special projects and the time capsule. Heavy in genealogical information, it also includes brief histories of local businesses and photographs of major Somerset County historic houses.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Wingate, Phillip J. Before the Bridge. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1985.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Education, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Dorchester County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Chappell, Helen. "The Great Dorchester Marsh." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 14-17.
Categories: Environment, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Davis, Lynn. "Garden Roots." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 154-67.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
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.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
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.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
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.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore