The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Towers, Frank Harold. Ruffians on the Urban Border: Labor, Politics, and Race in Baltimore, 1850-1861. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Irvine, 1993.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Baltimore City
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
Varga, Nicholas. "The Establishment of Howard County, 1850-1855, Part I." Howard County Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter (July 1986): 1-2.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Varga, Nicholas. "The Establishment of Howard County, 1850-1855, Part II." Howard County Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter (October 1986): 2.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Varga, Nicholas. "The Establishment of Howard County, 1850-1855, Part III." Howard County Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter (January 1987): 3.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Varga, Nicholas. "The Establishment of Howard County, 1850-1855. Part IV." Howard County Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter (April 1987): 3-4.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Varga, Nicholas. "The Establishment of Howard County, 1850-1855, Part V." Howard County Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter 31 (April 1988): 4.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Varga, Nicholas. "The Establishment of Howard County, 1850-1855, [Concluded] Part VI." Howard County Historical Society, Inc. Newsletter 31 (June 1988): 3.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Walton, John M., Jr. "Prince George's Genesis." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 20 (August 1992): 3-4.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Williamsport and Vicinity Reminiscences: Early Part of the 19th Century to the Early Part of 1933, Inclusive. Williamsport, MD: Williamsport Chamber of Commerce, [1933].
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Washington County
Burton, Bill. "Fishy Politics." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (November 1994): 26, 28, 80.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Politics and Law
Cameron, Mark. "Monuments of Urbanity: The Development of Baltimore's Residential Squares." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1998): 5.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Women
Capper, John, Garrett Power, and Frank Shivers. Chesapeake Waters: Pollution, Public Health and Public Opinion, 1602-1972. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1983.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Environment, Ethnic History, Medicine, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Davidson, Heather R., and Skip Willits. "Campaign for the Chesapeake Rivers." Maryland 26 (September/October 1994): 17-24.
Davidson, Steven G., Jay. G. Merwin, Jr., John Capper, Garrett Power, and Frank Shivers, Jr. Chesapeake Waters: Four Centuries of Controversy, Concern and Legislation. 1983; reprint, Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1997.
Notes: Primarily on the political process paralleling environmental change but containing many references to contemporary conditions and problems.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Keiner, Christine. "W. K. Brooks and the Oyster Question: Science, Politics, and Resource Management in Maryland, 1880-1930." Journal of the History of Biology [Netherlands] 31 (Fall 1998): 383-424.
Categories: Environment, Politics and Law, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Straus, Robert Ware. The Possible Dream: Saving George Washington's View. Accokeek, MD: Accokeek Foundation, 1988.
Notes: Bob Straus did the nation a great service with the effort behind this work, one which people striving for environmental preservation should learn about. The Accokeek Foundation has also sponsored a wide range of other publications (over three dozen), many on agriculture and crops in colonial times, which have impacted the State's course through history.
Bode, Carl, ed. The Editor, the Bluenose, and the Prostitute: H. L. Mencken's History of the "Hatrack" Censorship Case. Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1988.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Breslaw, Elaine G. "Wit, Whimsy, and Politics: The Uses of Satire by the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1744 to 1756." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, 32 (April 1975): 295-306.
Notes: An introduction to the group of Annapolis wits whose humorous proceedings have survived in a manuscript at the Johns Hopkins University. The antics of the Tuesday Club open a window on the climate of civil discourse that characterized the Golden Era in Annapolis. In contrast to the political tensions that would soon led to revolution, club members employed parodies to mock political conventions. The actual minutes of the club as edited by Professor Breslaw have been published as the <em>Records of the Tuesday Club, 1745 - 1756</em>.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Chambers, Tom. "Political Parties, Their Newspapers and Their Battling Editors." Harford Historical Bulletin 50 (Fall 1991): 101-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Chambers, Tom. "Political Upheaval Brings Upheaval in Harford County Newspaper Publishing." Harford Historical Bulletin 50 (Fall 1991): 113-27.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Chambers, Tom. "The Travail of Early Newspapers in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 50 (Fall 1991): 96-100.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Clark, Michael D. "Jonathan Boucher: the Mirror of Reaction." Huntington Library Quarterly 33 (1969): 19-32.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century
Copeland, David. "'Join or Die:' America's Newspapers in the French and Indian War." Journalism History 24 (Autumn 1998): 112-21.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century