The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
"The Beaches of Calvert: The Stuff of Dreams." Annapolitan 5 (April 1991): 22-24.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Benson, Robert Louis. "The Creation of Howard County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (January 1995): 5-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Howard County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (July 1992): 5-6.
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County: Part II: Two Tours and Two Families." Anne Arundel County History Notes 24 (October 1992): 4, 9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County: Part III-Some Recollections of William H. Hall IV (1893-1992)." Anne Arundel County History Notes 24 (January 1993): 5-6.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County: Part V." Anne Arundel County History Notes 25 (October 1993): 9, 14.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Notes on South County: Part IV: Additional Recollections of William H. Hall IV." Anne Arundel County History Notes 24 (April 1993): 9-10.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Blake, Allison. The Chesapeake Bay Book: A Complete Guide. 3rd edition. Lee, MA: Berkshire House Publishers, 1997.
Notes: A well researched tour guide for the general population.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Booth, Oscar. "Annapolis in Fiction." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (January 1995): 1-2.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Boyd, Thomas Hulings Stockton. The History of Montgomery County, Maryland, from its earliest settlement in 1650 to 1879. Clarksburgh, MD [Baltimore, W. K. Boyle & son, printers], 1879; reprint, Baltimore: Regional Pub. Co, 1968.
Notes: Written following the American, and the County's, Centennial, this work places special emphasis on land grants and prominent men. Includes a directory of the towns, villages, and residents.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County, Montgomery County
Bradford, James C., ed. Anne Arundel County, Maryland: A Bicentennial History 1649-1977. Annapolis, MD: Anne Arundel County and Annapolis Bicentennial Committee, 1977.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Brennan, David. Annapolis, Capital Gateway to Maryland. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Broadneck Jaycees. Broadneck, Maryland's Historic Peninsula. Annapolis, MD: Fishergate Publishing Co., Inc., 1976.
Notes: Broadneck is a former Anne Arundel County hundred, located between the Severn and the Magothy Rivers. This work, published for the American Bicentennial, consists of thirteen essays, written by community leaders and local scholars, on a variety of themes -- education, religion, etc. One essay is the work of former Maryland State Archivist, Morris L. Radoff. Included is a list showing the dates of the area's first families' first residences.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Anne Arundel County
Brooklyn-Curtis Bay Historical Committee. A History of Brooklyn-Curtis Bay, 1776-1976. Baltimore: The Committee, 1976.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City
Browne, Joseph L. From Sotweed to Suburbia: A History of the Crofton, Maryland Area 1660-1960. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Transportation and Communication, Anne Arundel County
Burdett, Harold N. Yesterday in Annapolis. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1974.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Carr, Lois Green. "The Metropolis of Maryland': A Comment on Town Development Along the Tobacco Coast." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Summer 1974): 124-45.
Notes: Many towns in the Chesapeake area failed during the seventeenth century. Towns were not needed as commercial centers for the tobacco trade, the major economy of the area at that time. Carr uses St. Mary's City as an example of such a failure.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Crowley, C. H. "Birthday by the Bay." Saturday Evening Post 267 (March/April 1995): 80-81.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Dempsey, Patricia. "Chesapeake Frontier Town." Annapolis Quarterly (Spring 1996): 68-72.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County, Chesapeake Region
Dempsey, Patricia. "Beach Town Renaissance." Annapolis Quarterly (Spring 1997): 42-48, 84-85.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Dempsey, Patricia A. "Galesville." Annapolis Quarterly (Fall 1996): 68-70, 93, 112.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Durner, Marie Angel. "Early Days on Mountain Road." Anne Arundel County History Notes 16 (April 1985): 1-2.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Earle, Swepson. The Chesapeake Bay Country. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Company, 1923.
Notes: Divided into three regions -- southeastern Maryland, Upper Bay, and the Eastern Shore, this work includes a history for each, written by five noted authors, followed by a description of the counties in each, along with places of interest and the people of these places. The histories of the areas places special emphasis on major houses and genealogy of the owners. It is nicely illustrated with contemporary photographs, which nearly 80 years later serve as historic images. There are four pages of interesting photos of African Americans.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, 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
Eason, Ruth P. History of the Town of Glen Burnie. Glen Burnie, MD: Kuethe Library, Inc., 1972.
Categories: County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
Ellingsworth, M. Keith. "Tracey's or Tracys Landing?" Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (July 1995): 1-2, 8-9.