The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
White, Dan. Crosscurrents in Quiet Water: Portraits of the Chesapeake. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987.
Notes: A photo essay of the changing lives of the Eastern Shore's peoples focusing on watermen, boat builders, environmentalists, and chicken farmers. Special emphasis is placed on Smith Island and Crisfield. Photographs by Jon Naso and Marion Warren.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Williams, John Page. "Seeking Refuge." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (June 1994): 18, 20.
Notes: Eastern Neck Island.
Categories: County and Local History, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Willis, Bob. "Harbor to Shore-And Back Again." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): 79, 81.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.
Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, 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
Wroten, William H., Jr. Assateague. Salisbury, MD: Peninsula Press, 1970.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Native American, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Anthony, James T. "Early Attempts at Wildlife Conservation in Maryland." Old Kent 1 (December 1985): 1-2.
Categories: Environment, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Brait, Susan. Chesapeake Gold: Man & Oyster on the Bay. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Chesapeake Region
Davis, Lynn. "Garden Roots." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 154-67.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
De Gast, Robert. The Oyster Men of the Chesapeake. Camden, ME: International Marine Publishing Company, 1970.
Notes: One cannot separate the Chesapeake oyster as a natural resource from the men and vessels which harvested them. Bob De Gast's book is a compelling visual story with accurate, if spare, text.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
DeGast, Robert. Western Wind, Eastern Shore: A Sailing Cruise Around the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
Notes: De Gast sails a small boat around the entire DelMarVa Peninsula, an interesting voyage with useful observations.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore. Seventeen Maryland Rivers. New York: Holt Reinhart and Winston, 1944.
Notes: Footner writes mostly stories about history, but he does view Chesapeake river environments from a mid-1940s perspective.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Heckscher, Christopher M. "Distribution and Habitat Associations of the Eastern Mud Salamander, Pseudotriton montanus, on the Delmarva Peninsula." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 11-14.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Lang, Varley. Follow the Water. Winston Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1961.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
"Matapeake State Park." Isle of Kent (Spring 1999): 4.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Powledge, Fred. Working River. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
Categories: Environment, Maritime
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Selckmann, August. "The Susquehanna: Mother of the Chesapeake." Maryland 23 (Autumn 1990): 6-17.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Cecil County, Harford County
Sharrer, G. Terry. "The Patuxent: Maryland's Heartland River." Maryland 21 (Spring 1989): 6-23.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Anne Arundel County, Charles County
Stone, William T., Fessenden Blanchard, and Anne M. Hayes. A Cruising Guide to the Chesapeake including the passages from the Long Island Sound along the New Jersey coast and Island Waterway. 1968; reprint, New York: Putnam, 1989.
Notes: This guide gives detailed descriptions of the navigable portions for each of Maryland's rivers and creeks.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Thorogood, Cyprian. "A Relation of a Voyage Made by Mr. Cyprian Thorogood to the Head of the Baye." The Historian 20 (May 1958).
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Seventeenth Century
Torrusio, Michael, Jr. "Destination: Magothy River." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 27 (June 1997): 48-53, 90.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime
Vojtech, Pat. "The Last Undiscovered River." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 22 (November 1992): 33-37, 42.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime
Walters, Keith. "Charterboat Fishing." Maryland 25 (Spring 1993): 33-35.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Warner, William W. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
Notes: Must reading for anyone wishing to know the Chesapeake, its environment and water ways.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century