The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Lanham, Paul T. "Why 'Upper'?" News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 17 (May 1989): 27.
Notes: Upper and Lower Marlboro.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Native American, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Lister, Dawn Sheets. "Calvert County Maryland: The Physical and Human Geography of the 'Charm of the Chesapeake'." Calvert Historian 11 (Spring 1996): 43-55.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
McElrath, Doug. "Riverdale Park: The Story Behind the Name." Riverdale Town Crier 27 (May 1998): 1, 10.
McWilliams, Rita. "Great Elevations." Mid-Atlantic Country 13 (January 1992): 54-58, 63.
Notes: A tourism piece, but one which offers good basic information on a number of western Maryland's geological landmarks -- Crystal Grottoes Caverns, Sideling Hill Road Cut, and The Devil's Racecourse.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Manchester, Andi. "A Cruising Family Visits St. Michael's." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 20 (April 1991): 40-43, 50.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Talbot County
Manchester, Andi. "Oxford." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 22 (September 1992): 26-29, 44.
Categories: County and Local History, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Mastracco, Martha. "A St. Michael's Christmas." Maryland 24 (Winter 1991): 22-29.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Talbot County
Molter, Nelson J. An Illustrated History of Severna Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: The Annapolis Short Line & W.B.A. Railroads, with A Brief Mention of the Surrounding Communities. [Annapolis, MD]: [Whitmore Print. & Stationary Co.], 1969.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Molter, Nelson J. Severna Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: A History of the Area. 2 vols. Severna Park, MD: [N.p.] 1969, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
"More About 'Isaac's Camp'." Glades Star 8 (September 1996): 99.
Noll, Linda. "The Land of Promise: A Brief History of the Site." Harford Historical Bulletin 70 (Fall 1996): 127-31.
Notes: Steppingstone Museum.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Harford County
Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publisher Company, 1976.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Olson, Sherry H. Baltimore: The Building of an American City. Revised edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Notes: The product of a geographer, this excellent history of Baltimore focuses on its physical growth as an urban center. Special emphasis is placed on how the city, and its inhabitants, handled the changes brought about by city growth.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Papenfuse, Edward C. "What's in a Name? Why Should We Remember?" News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 24 (June/July 1996): 1-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Prince George's County
Peden, Henry C., Jr. "Harford County Place Names, Past and Present, Their Location, Origin and Meaning, Part I: A-J." Harford Historical Bulletin 78 (Fall 1998): 3-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Harford County
Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland, 1668-1725." Calvert Historian 9 (Spring 1994): 68-79.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County
Pogue, Dennis J. "Calverton, Calvert County, Maryland: 1668-1725." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 371-376.
Notes: Calverton, the originally county seat of Calvert County, was one of the few towns in Colonial Southern Maryland. The discovery of an 1862 plat of this town, the earliest know plat of a Maryland town, greatly added to the information available on the town. Calverton is now believed to be of much greater importance than previously thought. It was an prominent governmental, economic, and population center.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County
Power, Garrett. Parceling Out Land in Baltimore, 1632-1796. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1994.
Notes: Reprints of two <em>Maryland Historical Magazine</em> articles with the same title. Using a variety of sources, both primary and secondary, Power traces the chain of title, up to the point of incorporation, of the 2000 acres of Baltimore Town, Jones Town, and Fell's Point, the communities that became Baltimore City.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Power, Garrett. "Parceling out Land in the Vicinity of Baltimore: 1632-1796, Part 1." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Winter 1992): 453-466.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Power, Garrett. "Parceling out Land in the Vicinity of Baltimore: 1632-1796, Part 2." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Summer 1993): 150-80.
Preston, Dickson J., and Norman Harrington. Oxford: The First Three Centuries. Easton, MD: Historical Society of Talbot County, 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Preston, Dickson J. Talbot County: A History. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Preston, Dickson J. Trappe: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Town. Easton, MD: Trappe Bicentennial Committee, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Talbot County
Randolph, B. S. "History of the Maryland Coal Region." Journal of the Alleghenies 29 (1993): 47-62.
Notes: Originally published by the Maryland Geological Survey, in 1905, this work discusses the development of Allegany County's mining industry, including the unionization of the miners.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Reps, John. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.
Notes: Early towns did not generally spring out of nowhere. Town planning was common and an important part of Chesapeake Maryland's colonial history. The government played an active role in the founding and formation of towns. Annapolis and the District of Columbia were unique in that their plans did not resemble those common amongst other English colonies.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Nineteenth Century, 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