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
Beitzell, Edwin W., ed. "Diaries of John F. Dent of Burlington 1853-1898." Chronicles of St. Mary's 27 (April 1979): 25-35; (May 1979): 37-52; (June 1979): 53-65; (August 1979): 77-88; (October 1979): 101-11.
Bennett, Joyce. "Edwin Warfield Beitzel: Poet, Southern Agrarian, Renaissance Man." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Spring 1999): 345-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Buckler, Mary Agnes. "Goodbye to the Good Old Days." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Summer 1998): 295-97.
Burwell, Gale. "Henry N. Hotchkiss." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Summer 1995): 33-36.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
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
Calhoun, Stephen D. The Marylanders: Without Shelter or a Crumb. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County, Civil War, Southern Maryland
Calhoun, Stephen D. "Col. John Henry Sothoron 1807-1893." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Summer 1992): 113-28.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
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
Clague, Cristin D. "The Calverts: Migration in History." Calvert Historian 13 (Fall 1998): 19-24.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County
"Diary of Dr. Joseph L. McWilliams 1868-1875." Chronicles of St. Mary's 25 (January 1977): 2-8; (October 1977): 315-22.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Faust, Page T. "Dr. Walter Hanson Stone Briscoe." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Winter 1998): 339-42.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Fenwick, LaVerne M. "The Hebbs of St. Mary's County, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 39 (Spring 1991): 1-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Foster, James W., and Susan R. Falk. George Calvert: The Early Years. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1983.
Gough, Al, Jr. "The Life and Times of Asa Ardells Lawrence, Officer-Gentleman-Carpetbagger-Entrepreneur." Chronicles of St. Mary's 39 (Winter 1991): 65-95.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Guyther, J. Roy. "The Best of Two Worlds." Chronicles of St. Mary's 42 (Fall 1994): 349-51.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Hammett, David, Sr. "Samuel Dashiell Hammett." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 76.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Hodges, Raymond. "Random Recollections-Pleasant Valley Farm." Chronicles of St. Mary's 41 (Winter 1993): 264-72.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Hoffman, Ronald. Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500 - 1782. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press/Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, 2000.
Notes: Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Maryland's Charles Carroll of Carrollton was conspicuously different from most of his colleagues. Fabulously wealthy and Roman Catholic, Carroll was very aware of his family's origins as traditional leaders in their former Irish homeland. Ronald Hoffman skillfully recounts the story of this family's successful struggle to maintain its status in the face of official religious intolerance. In surveying the path that led from Ely O'Carroll in Ireland to the shores of the Chesapeake, Hoffman helps explain why a very conservative family would embrace the cause of revolution.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
"Joseph Harris of 'Ellenborough'." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Spring 1997): 189-93.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Lewis, Clifford III., ed. "A Relation of a Voyage Made by Mr. Cyprian Thorowgood (from the Patuxent) to the Head of the Baye, April 24-May 5, 1634." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (November 1984): 201-207.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County