The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Henig, Gerald S. Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from Maryland. New York: Twayne Press, 1973.
Notes: A sympathetic biography of a leading Maryland politician who died in 1866 at the early age of forty-eight. A gifted orator and political writer, and a passionate opponent of the Democratic Party, Davis initially associated with the Whig Party, which was popular in the north but less so in the south, just as it was in the throes of disintegration. He then aligned with the newly formed Know Nothing Party, whose primary appeal was nativism and anti-Catholicism, and was elected to Congress in 1855. He was a leading opponent of the Buchanan administration and an early supporter of Abraham Lincoln. Active in trying to stem the tide of secession and to keep Maryland in the Union, he hoped for a Cabinet position, but Montgomery Blair won the appointment. At odds with his constituents, he was defeated for re-election and his political career appeared to be ended. He became gradually disenchanted with Lincoln's leadership, and, after re-election to Congress as a Unconditional Unionist, he led the effort to reassert Congressional leadership over reconstruction policies. When the President pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis bill, he issued a highly publicized protest manifesto and actively opposed Lincoln's renomination. During the 1864 campaign, however, he decided that the Democratic candidate, McClellan, was a greater threat, so he campaigned for the Republican ticket. Davis also played a decisive role in the writing and ratification of the Maryland constitution of 1864. Once again his radical position eroded his constituent base and he was not renominated for his Congressional seat.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
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
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
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
Jacobs, Charles T. "Civil War Fords and Ferries in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 40 (February 1997): 417-28.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Civil War
Summers, Festus P. The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War. New York: Putnam's, 1939.
Notes: The B&O was the Union's most important railroad during the conflict. Summers's book "presents a scholarly, objective, and conscientious approach to the subject in hand with literary execution of unusual excellence," said Maryland historian Matthew Page Andrews in his 1940 <em>Maryland Historical Magazine</em> review.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Addison-Darneille, and Henrietta Stockton. "For Better or For Worse." Civil War Times Illustrated 31 (May/June 1992): 32-35, 73.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Cale, Clyde C., Jr. "Maria Louise Browning: Civil War Heroine." Glades Star 9 (March 1999): 11-13, 39.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Women, Nineteenth Century, Garrett County, Civil War
Coryell, Janet L. "Anna Ella Carroll and the Historians." Civil War History 35 (June 1989): 120-37.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Kelbaugh, Jack. "Northern Hospital Nurses: Mary Young and Rose Billings Make the Ultimate Sacrifice in Civil War Annapolis." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (January 1994): 5-6, 19.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Military, Women, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Civil War
Berlin, Ira, Francine C. Cary, Steven F. Miller, and Leslie S. Rowland. "Family and Freedom: Black Families in the American Civil War." History Today [Great Britain] 37 (1987): 8-15.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Bohannon, Keith, ed. "Wounded & Captured at Gettysburg: Reminiscence by Sgt. William Jones, 50th Georgia Infantry." Military Images 9 (1988): 14-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Boyd, Charles A. "George Alfred Townsend and the War Correspondents Memorial." Civil War Times Illustrated 16 (1977): 10-13.
Categories: Nineteenth Century, Frederick County, Washington County, Other, Civil War
Brown, Kent Masterson. "Greenhorns and Honey Bees: The One Hundred and Thirty-Second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry at Antietam." Lincoln Herald 81 (1979): 202-206.
Categories: Military, Nineteenth Century, Washington County, Other, Civil War
Browning, Robert M., Jr. From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region, Civil War
"Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (April 2000): 25-28.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Coryell, Janet L. "'The Lincoln Colony': Aaron Columbus Burr's Proposed Colonization of British Honduras." Civil War History 43 (1997): 5-16.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Craighead, Sandra G., comp. "Index of Maryland and West Virginia Civil War Colored Troopers and Their 'Loyal Slaveowners.'" Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 15 (1996): 40-50.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Davidson, Roger A., Jr. "'They Have Never Been Known to Falter': The First United States Colored Infantry in Virginia and North Carolina." Civil War Regiments 6 (1998): 1-26.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Hein, David. A Student's View of the College of St. James on the Eve of the Civil War: The Letters of W. Wilkins Davis (1842-1866). Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1988.
Categories: Education, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County, Washington County, Other, Civil War
Faherty, William B. "From the Gray to the Black." Civil War Times Illustrated 38 (no. 7, 2000): 50-55.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Faust, Drew Gilpin. Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War
Frassanito, William A. "The Photographers of Antietam." Civil War Times Illustrated 17 (1978): 17-20.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Washington County, Other, Civil War
Gray, Ralph D. "'The Key to the Whole Federal Situation.' - The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in the Civil War." Maryland Historical Magazine 60 (1965): 1-14.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region, Civil War
Grimsley, Mark. "The Definition of Disaster." Civil War Times Illustrated 28 (1989): 14-21.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Other, Civil War