The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Poag, C. Wylie. Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Notes: Poag's recent book discusses the massive bolide impact which set up the geology beneath Chesapeake Bay. While the impact was centered beneath what is today the Virginia Eastern Shore, parts of the bolide struck in Maryland as well, and affected the entire drainage system.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Smith, David E., Merrill Leffler, and Gail Mackiernan, eds. Oxygen Dynamics in Chesapeake Bay: A Synthesis of Recent Research. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: A follow-on to Mackiernan, 1988.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Smith, John. The General Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles. 1624; reprint, Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966.
Notes: Facsimile, also reissued by World Publishing, Cleveland, OH. This volume is as close to reading the original as most of us will get. John Smith was the first environmental observer of Bay and watershed, and his insights are sobering when one contemplates the changes we have wrought.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Vokes, Harold E. Miocene Fossils of Maryland. 1957; reprint, Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1968.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
Ward, Lauck W., and David S. Powars. Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Chesapeake Bay Region, Virginia and Maryland. Washington, DC: 28th International Geological Congress, American Geophysical Union, 1989.
Notes: A thorough discussion of how layers of this region's fossils lie in our exposed cliffs. Not a popularly written text, but this is how to find and identify many of the region's marvelous fossils.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Michener, James. Chesapeake. New York: Random House, Inc., 1978.
Notes: Historical novel.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Preston, Dickson J. Newspapers of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Wycherly, H. Alan. "H. L. Mencken vs. The Eastern Shore: December, 1931." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970): 381-390.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Corddry, Mary U. Museums and Monuments of the Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1990.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Enoch Pratt Free Library. The Eastern Shore of Maryland: An Annotated Bibliography. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1980.
Categories: General, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Everett, Michele. "Sudlersville Town Library." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 12 (Fireside 89-90): 92-93.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Queen Anne's County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Schofield, Clay. "An Annotated Bibliography of Folklore Material for the Eastern Shore." Free State Folklore 3 (Winter 1976-1977): 19-55.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Guest, C. "The Boarding of the Dependent Poor in Colonial America." Social Service Review 63 (March 1989): 92-112.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Jerrard, Margot. "Love and Marriage in Colonial Maryland." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 66-67, 69.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Quinn, David B. "Why They Came." In Early Maryland in a Wider World, edited by David B. Quinn, 119-148. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982.
"St. Martin's Camp." Isle of Kent (Spring 1993): 1-2.
Categories: Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore City, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
"Summertime at the Old Love Point Hotel." Isle of Kent (Summer 1991): 223-24.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Yealdhall, J. Edward. "Crossing the Bay on the 'Smokey Joe'." Isle of Kent (Spring 1993): 7-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Queen Anne's County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Morris, Anne F., and Jean B. Russo, eds. "Polly Tilghman's Plight: A True Tale of Romance and Reputation in the 18th Century." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 464-79.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Sherwood, Jack. "'Bad Girl' of the Wye River." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 25 (December 1995): 40-43, 64-65.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Maritime, Women, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Chisman, Forrest P., and Renee S. Woodworth. "The Mattapex Post Office." Isle of Kent Quarterly (Winter/Spring 2000): 3-5.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Queen Anne's County, Other, Eastern Shore
Harrington, Norman. Shaping of Religion in America: How early churches in Delaware and on Maryland and Virginia's Eastern Shore provided the most important stimulus for the evolution of Christianity in the New World. Easton, MD: The Queen Anne Press, 1980.
Categories: Religion, Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Other, Eastern Shore