The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Silberhorn, Gene M. Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Sipple, William S. Days Afield: Exploring Wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century : Essays on Anglo-American Society. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Notes: These essays, while largely anthropological, tell a lot about how the Bay region was settled, the problems with this process, and how European practices moved across the landscape.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Tilp, Frederick. Chesapeake Fact, Fiction & Fun: Pungoteaque, St. Clement, Patapsco, Oxford, Coan. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time: A Brief History of our Geology, Part I: Fathoming the Ocean of Time." Bugeye Times 22 (Fall 1997): 1, 6.
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
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, James, and Margaret J. White. A Portrait of the Bay Country. Winterville, NC: Creative Resources Systems, 1982.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Wharton, James. The Bounty of the Chesapeake. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1953.
Notes: Wharton's little book is one of the most accessible assemblages of references to Bay resources in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Williams, John Page. "Stewing about Oysters." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (December 1993): 14-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Williams, John Page. "Waterfowl Safari." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (November 1994): 20, 22, 24.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Winterbotham, William. An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical view of the America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies. 1795; reprint, New York: Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796.
Notes: An unusual contemporary view of the U.S. as an infant nation, especially of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the City of Washington. Discusses natural wonders, weather, plants, and makes recommendations to "European settlers".
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Berkshire, Jennifer Courtney. Struggling Home: The Spatial Construction of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America. Ph.D. diss., Miami University, 1995.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century
Cockey, Carolyn Davis. "Maryland's Gray Ladies." Maryland 28 (January 1996): 36-43.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
Davis, Richard Beale. "The Intellectual Golden Age in the Colonial Chesapeake Bay Country." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 78 (1970): 131-143.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Dayan, Joan. "Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves." American Literature 66 (June 1994): 239-73.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century
Dominguez, Susan. "Snapshots of Twentieth-Century Writers Mary Antin, Zora Neale Hurston, Zitkala-Sa, and Anzia Yezierska." Centennial Review 41 (Fall 1997): 547-52.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Twentieth Century
Freeman, Elizabeth Stone. The Wedding Complex: Sex Norms and Fantasy Forms in Modern American Culture. Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1996.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Gambrell, Alice. "Serious Fun: Recent Work on Zora Neale Hurston." Studies in the Novel 29 (Summer 1997): 238-44.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Twentieth Century
Garrigus, Carl E., Jr. "The Reading Habits of Maryland's Planter Gentry, 1718-1747." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Spring 1997): 36-53.
Notes: Studies of reading habits have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, and this article builds on pioneering research in the 1930s of Joseph Towne Wheeler in analyzing the contents of colonial Maryland bookshelves. The change in reading preferences that occurred in the later eighteenth century brought much greater diversity to personal libraries that formerly were dominated by devotional, legal and classical titles. There also is evidence that reading before 1750 was more intensive, that is, readers tended to return to the same text or passage for repeated readings. This, coupled with the expense of purchasing and importing books, helps explain the relative paucity of published works owned by the literate elite in colonial Maryland.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth. "Mencken's 'In Defense of Women.'" Menckeniana 121 (Spring 1992): 11-13.
Siebert, Sara. "Mencken on Women." Menckeniana 121 (Spring 1992): 13-15.
Wingate, P. J. "Women Understood H. L. Mencken." Menckeniana 128 (Winter 1993): 7-9.