The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Sheads, Scott. Fort McHenry: A History. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co., 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Baltimore City, War of 1812
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
Wroten, William H., Jr. Assateague. Salisbury, MD: Peninsula Press, 1970.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Native American, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Cronon, William B. Changes in the Land, Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Notes: Cronon's work is about New England, but his ecological insights are invaluable to learning about the Chesapeake.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Gottfried, Michael D. "Fossil Pioneers: The Chesapeake Region and the Early History of Paleontology in North America." Bugeye Times 16 (Fall 1991): 1, 6-7.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Wroten, William H. Jr. Assateague. 1970; 2d edition, Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1972.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
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
Sands, Peter Vernon. 'A Horrid Banquet:' Cannibalism, Native Americans, and the Fictions of National Formation. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1996.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Howard, James H. "The Nanticoke-Delaware Skeleton Dance." American Indian Quarterly 2 (Spring 1975): 1-13.
Categories: Music and Theater, Native American
Cassell, Frank A. Merchant Congressman in the Young Republic: Samuel Smith of Maryland. Madison: The University Press of Wisconsin, 1971.
Notes: Samuel Smith epitomizes the history of Baltimore City during the early republic. An officer during the Revolution and the commander of the forces that defended the city against the British attack in 1813, a member of an important merchant family whose economic connections helped him establish a political power base that stretched almost five decades, and sometimes brought him to the brink of economic ruin, he was a major political figure from George Washington's presidency through Andrew Jackson's. His career also reveals the elusiveness of political labels. As a Republican leader in the 1790s, he opposed the policies of the Federalists and supported those of Thomas Jefferson, but he and his brother Robert Smith had a falling out with James Madison, and by the 1830s he was courted by the more democratic Jacksonians who refused to anoint his kin as party leaders.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Notes: A comprehensive examination of the political background, military operations, and diplomatic closure of "Mr. Madison's War." It may have been forgotten in other areas, but for Maryland the War of 1812 was all too real. The Royal Navy roamed the Chesapeake with impunity, occupied Tangier Island, burned Frenchtown, attacked St. Michaels and Havre de Grace, sacked the nation's capitol after defeating the militia at Bladensburg, before meeting defeat after a combined sea-land attack on Baltimore City, which was immortalized in Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner." There is also a chapter on the infamous Baltimore riot of 1812.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, War of 1812
Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced Baltimore during the War of 1812. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, Published for Mystic Seaport, Inc., 1977.
Notes: The British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 was motivated by a desire to punish the city for being a nest of republicans and privateers. This book traces in admirable detail the history of privateering - from the ships, outfitting, captains and crews, investors, their successes and failures, through the distribution of the prize money. While the pirates on the Spanish main may have been the dregs of the sea, Baltimore's privateers were underwritten by some of its leading mercantile and political leaders. The book includes useful appendices identifying the privateers, investors and proceeds.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Present at the 'Creation': The Chesapeake World that Greeted the Maryland Colonists." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 7-20.
Notes: Fausz examines relations between Europeans (especially the English of Maryland and Virginia) and Native Americans of the Chesapeake region in the decade immediately preceding the settlement of the Maryland colony at St. Mary's in 1634. He argues that the interaction between Englishmen and Native Americans provided the basis for tobacco cultivation and the beaver fur trade. Both paved the way for successful adaption of the early English settlers to new American conditions.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
"The Great Game." Johns Hopkins Magazine 7 (April 1956): 7-9, 20-21.
Notes: The article discusses the Native American origins of lacrosse in a game called "baggattaway," tracing its adaption in the nineteenth century as a popular sport among Canadians and its spread to the United States. First played in Baltimore in the 1870s, it became a club and intercollegiate sport in the area. In 1928 lacrosse arrived on the world scene as a sport at the Amsterdam Olympics.
Categories: Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Harte, Thomas J. "Social Origins of the Brandywine Population." Phylon 24 (1963): 369-378.
Notes: Harte seeks to establish the eighteenth-century origins of a distinctive mixed race "Brandywine" population in Charles County, though he fails to explain this social identity for the general reader. He points to Maryland laws against miscegenation and cross-racial sexual relationships as indirect evidence that both had occurred in the colony and cites Charles County records for violations of those laws. The article provides less direct support for his contention that Native American ancestry may also have been involved in the mixed race unions. Harte concludes that isolated family groupings in the eighteenth century served as the basis of the identifiable Brandywine population in the county in the nineteenth century.
Categories: African American, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Rozbicki, Michael J. "Transplanted Ethos--Indians and the Cultural Identity of English Colonists in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Amerikastudien 28 (No. 4, 1983): 405-428.
Categories: Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Adolf, Leonard A. "Squanto's Role in Pilgrim Diplomacy." Ethnohistory 11 (1964): 247-261.
Categories: Ethnic History, Native American, Politics and Law, Other
Bridenbaugh, Carl. "The Old and New Societies of the Delaware Valley In the Seventeenth Century." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 100 (1976): 143-172.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Cecil County, Other
Cowin, Verna L. "Cannel Coal Pendants: Types and Distribution." North American Archaeologist 20 (no. 3, 1999): 239-262.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Native American, Other
Eaton, H. B. "Bladensburg." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research [Great Britain] 55 (1977): 8-14.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Prince George's County, Other, War of 1812
Ellenberg, George B. "An Uncivil War of Words: Indian Removal in the Press." Atlanta History 33 (1989): 48-59.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Native American, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Other
Ewers, John C. "'Chiefs from the Missouri and Mississippi' and Peale's Silhouettes of 1806." Smithsonian Journal of History 1 (1966): 1-26.
Categories: Native American, Nineteenth Century, Other
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Profits, Pelts, and Power: English Culture in the Early Chesapeake, 1620-1652." Maryland Historian 14 (1983): 14-30.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region
George, Christopher T. Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2000.
Categories: Maritime, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region, War of 1812
Globensky, Anne Brigid. At Home in Baltimore: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Lumbee Domestic Material Culture. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1999.
Categories: Ethnic History, Native American, Baltimore City, Other