The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Breen, T. H. Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Middleton, Authur Pierce. Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of the Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era. Newport News, VA: Mariners Museum, 1953.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Eighteenth-Century Gardens of the Chesapeake." A special issue of the Journal of Garden History: An International Quarterly 9 (July-Sept. 1989): 103-59.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Land, Landlord, and Leaseholder: Estate Management and Tenant Fortunes in Southern Maryland, 1642-1820." Agricultural History 59 (July 1985): 373-396.
Notes: Based on the astonishing records of a Jesuit-owned estate in Charles County that lasted for 175 years, Walsh examined 233 tenants, and the effect of their short term vs. long term leases on resource waste or conservation. The story explains how owners used leasing as a means for plantation development and as an alternative to slave labor.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Beynon, Jo. "John Louis Wellington: Artist and Banker." Journal of the Alleghenies 34 (1998): 37-39.
Byron, Gilbert. Gilbert Byron's Chesapeake Seasons: A Cove Journal. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1987.
Notes: Poet and chronicler Gilbert Byron's columns were a popular feature in several Eastern Shore newspapers. This collection of observations and reminiscences culled from his newspaper writings are both biographical and lyrical in quality. Byron captures both an appreciation for a nostalgic past and an awareness of the social and economic changes occurring on his beloved shore.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
Carter, Samuel, III. The Riddle of Dr. Mudd. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.
Notes: Dr. Samuel Mudd (1833-1883) of Charles County is inextricably connected with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Convicted of aiding John Wilkes Booth by tending to his broken leg during his flight from Washington, Mudd served time at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas until his heroic efforts to save victims of a yellow fever epidemic helped earn an early release. Mudd's conduct and subsequent treatment in the aftermath of Lincoln's death has sparked a cottage industry of defenders and detractors.
Charbeneau, Jim. Shouts and Whispers: Stories from the Southern Chesapeake Bay. White Stone, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Cheesman, George. "Frederick County's Forgotten Glassmaker." Maryland 9 (Summer 1977): 27-31.
Notes: John Frederick Amelung.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Cone, Edward T. "The Miss Etta Cones, the Steins, and M'sieu Matisse. A Memoir." American Scholar 42 (1973): 441-460.
Notes: The Cone sisters, Etta and Claribel, were responsible for assembling the unsurpassed Cone Collection of works by Matisse and other modern artists at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Patrons of modern art before it was fashionable, the Cones were closely associated with their friend from her Baltimore days, Gertrude Stein. Art lovers will find the story of their collecting to be an important background for the enjoyment of the collection.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Twentieth Century
Dukes, Kristen W. "Wise and Wonderful." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 174-77.
Notes: Photographer Laird Wise.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Twentieth Century
Helm, Ruth. 'For Credit, Honor, and Profit': Three Generations of the Peale Family in America. Ph.D. diss., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Hoffland, Dixie. "Dr. Samuel Mudd." Maryland 20 (Spring 1988): 48-52.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Nineteenth Century, Charles County
Humphries, Lance Lee. Robert Gilmore, Jr. (1774-1848): Baltimore Collector and American Art Patron. Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1998.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Hurley, Norma L. "Samuel Cox of Charles County." The Record 53 (October 1991): 1-6.
Jensen, Ann. "Charles Wilson Peale: Painter and Patriot, Friend of the Founders." Annapolitan 6 (January/February 1992): 26-28, 102-3, 107.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Johnston, Sona K. "Friendship and Patronage: A Nineteenth-Century Tradition." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 10-12.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Kalkman, Julia von H. "'Mountevina': The Home of John Frederick Amelung." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc., Newsletter (November 1991) 3-5.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Kernan, M. "William and Henry Walters and their Fever for the Fine Arts." Smithsonian 20 (August 1989): 102-8, 110, 112-13.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Levy, Lester S. Jacob Epstein. Baltimore: Maran Press, 1978.
Notes: Biography of Epstein (1864-1945).
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Lloyd, Phoebe. "Raphaelle Peale's Anne-Arundel Still Life: A Local Treasure Lost and Found." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Spring 1992): 1-9.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Nineteenth Century
Low, Theodore L. The Perils of a Tour Leader. Baltimore: Published by the author, 1976.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Twentieth Century
McHale, John E. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination. Parsippany, NJ: Dillon Press, 1994.
Martel, Nancy Byrens. "Charles Willson Peale." Maryland 16 (Winter 1983): 8-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century