The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
Notes: Carr and Walsh make detailed use of probate records from seventeenth and eighteenth century Maryland to argue that the period in Chesapeake area history represented a shift from an early emphasis upon material necessities to an improved standard of living marked by "gentility." The authors contend that this change reached across class lines and helped to fuel, rather than check, the productive economy of the colony. The article includes extensive tables and graphs of evidence regarding consumer items for several Maryland and Virginia counties.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
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
Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 1996.
Notes: Horton's title suggests his principal themes in examining Smith Island life: that the islands represent a distinctive way of life rooted in another time whose preservation into the future may literally be running out of time. An environmental columnist for the Baltimore <em>Sun</em> who lived on Smith Island in the late 1980s as an environmental educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Horton examines the water-related economy, traditionally based on oystering and crabbing, and the unique way of life that evolved in the relative isolation of the island communities. His book profiles the personalities of Smith Island, the work of men and women, the pervasive role of religion in island life, and social, economic, and environmental changes threatening the island's future.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. "Neighbor Washington." The Record 27 (February 1983): 1-4.
Notes: George Washington's association with Charles County.
Russo, Jean B. "The Constables' Lists: An Invaluable Resource." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Summer 1990): 164-70.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Walsh, Lorena S. "The Historian as Census Taker: Individual Reconstitution and the Reconstruction of Censuses for a Colonial Chesapeake County." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, 38 (April 1981): 242-60.
Notes: Walsh uses methods drawn from community studies to reconstitute a census for adult white males in Charles County in 1705, based upon a provincial census and rent rolls from the period. She argues that such methods provide the researcher the opportunity to establish reasonable accurate profiles of Chesapeake society in the colonial period.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Charles County, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Staying Put or Getting Out: Findings for Charles County, Maryland, 1650-1720." William and Mary Quarterly (3d. series), 44 (January 1987): 89-103.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Shomette, Donald G. Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1996.
Notes: Underwater archaeology.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Wearmouth, John M. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad: The Pope 's Creek Branch. Baltimore: Baltimore Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County
Camp, Sharon Lee. Modernization: Threat to Community Politics. Political Intermediaries in Charles County, Maryland. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1977.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Guest, Geoffrey. "The Boarding of the Dependent Poor in Colonial America." Social Service Review 63 (1989): 92-112.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County, Other, Eastern Shore
Klapthor, Margaret Brown, and Paul Dennis Brown. The History of Charles County, Maryland, Written in its Tercentenary Year of 1958. La Plata, MD: Charles County Tercentenary, Inc., 1958.
Categories: County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Lemann, Nicholas. "The View from a Small Town." Washington Monthly 9 (1977): 21-28.
Categories: Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Rivoire, J. Richard. Homeplaces: Traditional Domestic Architecture of Charles County, Maryland. La Plata: Charles County Community College, Southern Maryland Studies Center, 1990.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Charles County, Other
Schilling-Estes, Natalie. "Accommodation Versus Concentration: Dialect Death in Two Post-insular Island Communities." American Speech 72 (1997): 12-32.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Other, Eastern Shore
Shomette, Donald G. "The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 30 (January 2000): 58-61, 94-95, 97.
Categories: Maritime, Charles County, Other, Southern Maryland
Bunting, Elaine. Counties of Southern Maryland. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2002.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Jacob, John E. Somerset County in Vintage Postcards. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2001.
Categories: County and Local History, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Bruner, Cora Jean. The Role of Music in the Community Life of Smith Island, Maryland. D.M.A. diss., Catholic University of America, 2002.
Categories: Music and Theater, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wall, Robert D. "Preliminary Archeological Investigation of the Maddox Island #2 Site (18SO240), Somerset County,Maryland." Maryland Archeology, 37 (March 2001): 13-17.
Categories: Archaeology, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Schatz, Don. "Marshall Hall Part II--The Estate." The Record,92 (April 2001): 1-3.
Middleton, Edward L. "Arthur R. Middleton." The Record,94 (October 2001): 1-3.
Bingham, F. Keith. "Beginning an Archives Program: The Case of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore." In Culture Keepers III. Westwood, MA: Faxon, RoweCom Academic Services for the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, 2000.
Jopling, Carol F. Churches of Somerset County, Maryland.Annapolis, MD: Annapolis Publishing Company, 2000.
Categories: Religion, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Winkler, Wayne. "Minton Somers House is in the Way of County Government and Must Come Down!" News and Notes from the Historical Society of Charles County, 93 (July 2001): [2].