The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Handwerker, Tom. "Something is Fishy Down on the Farm." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 13 (Harvest 1991): 18-19.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Pittman, LaVern. "Walnut Level: A Model Farm in Allegany County." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 3-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County
Dean, David M. "Meshach Browning: Bear Hunter of Allegany County, 1781-1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 73-83.
Notes: Meshach Browning was the author of an autobiography, <em>Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter</em>, that might more properly be seen as a tall tale wrapped around the framework of an actual life. Browning (1751-1859) inhabited the frontier in the westernmost part of Maryland that later became Garrett County. He claimed to have killed 400 bears in his career. For those attracted to the stories of Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyon, Meshach Browning's life offers entertaining reading.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
The McKaig Journal, a Confederate Family of Cumberland. Cumberland, MD: Allegheny County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Urbas, Anton. "Tony Urbas Has a Career Change." Journal of the Alleghenies 35 (1999): 37-48.
Davidson, Thomas E. "Jacob Armstrong: Pioneer Black Capitalist on Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 4 (1986): 4-6.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Kent, George Robert. The Negro in Politics in Dorchester County, Maryland, 1920-1960. M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1961.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Levy, Peter B. "The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland, during the 1960s." Viet Nam Generation 6, nos. 3-4 (1995): 96-107.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Levy, Peter B. "Civil War on Race Street: The Black Freedom Struggle and White Resistance in Cambridge, Maryland, 1960-1964." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 290-318.
Notes: The author examines Cambridge, Maryland in order to gain a local perspective on the civil rights movement. The author sets out to understand the movement at the grass roots level, instead of focusing on national leadership and civil rights legislation. Cambridge has been consistently overlooked in studies of the civil rights movement, and the author wonders if this has been the case since events in Cambridge do not fit neatly into typical historical narratives of the movement.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
McElvey, Kay Najiyyah. Early Black Dorchester, 1776-1870: A History of the Struggle of African-Americans in Dorchester County, Maryland, to be Free to Make Their Own Choices. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991.
Notes: The author examines selected events relating to Dorchester County's black population between 1776 and 1870 and their struggle to make their own political, economic, religious, and educational choices. The author also focuses on the enslaved and free leaders who led the fight for self-determination. The author hopes that her text will be used in high school classrooms as a local history of black Dorchester County.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Millner, Sandra Y. "Recasting Civil Rights Leadership: Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement." Journal of Black Studies 26 (July 1996): 668-87.
Notes: The author examines the neglect by scholars of civil rights leader Gloria Richardson. Richardson was not part of the established civil rights movement, nor has she been celebrated in the same manner as other civil rights leaders. The author examines the possible reasons for Richardson's marginalization in histories of the movement, which stem, in part, from scholars not questioning the language and the conceptions of gender and class used to describe Richardson in the press. Richardson also focused her attention on economic issues while the established civil rights leadership continued to focus on civil rights. She was also one of the first leaders to openly question the tactic on nonviolence. These additional factors also contributed to a lack of recognition of Richardson's role in the Cambridge Movement.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
"Selected Readings on Afro-Americans and Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 5 (Fall/Winter 1985): 6-7.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Thomas, Lamont D. "Paul Cuffe: Against the Odds in Vienna, Maryland." Log of Mystic Seaport 45, no. 4 (1994): 103-8.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Wilson, Emily Wanda. The Public Education of Negroes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1948.
Categories: African American, Education, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Cordts, Jeanne M. "Iron Fences in Frostburg." Journal of the Alleghenies 31 (1995): 89-98.
Cumberland Historic Buildings Cumberland, MD: Mayor and City Council, 1987.
Newell, Dianne. The Failure to Preserve the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland, Maryland. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1975.
Silverman, Sharon H. "The Castle B&B." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): 58-62.
Ware, Donna M. Green Glades & Sooty Gob Piles: The Maryland Coal Region's Industrial and Architectural Past. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1991.
Notes: Some 6,000 bridges, iron furnaces, log schoolhouses, company offices and stores, miner's houses, mill buildings, banks, churches, mansions, inns, resort cottages, and other structures associated with the extractive, manufacturing, and transportation industries of Garrett and western Allegany counties are surveyed and described here, with photographs, and contributions by Orlando Ridout, V, Geoffey B. Henry, and Mark R. Edwards. The largest project to date conducted by the Maryland Historical Trust is essential to an understanding of the unique remains of Maryland's historic resort area and coal and iron district.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County, Garrett County
Weeks, Christopher, ed. Between the Nanticoke and the Choptank: An Architectural History of Dorchester County, Maryland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Allen, Irvin G. Historic Oldtown Maryland. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Allegany County
Baden, Jacqueline Heppes. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Place Apart. 2 vols. Rockville, MD: Travel on Tape, Book Division, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
"A Bay for All Seasons." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): F28-F29, F31, F33.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
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
Bross-Fregonara, Nanci. "Allegany County." Mid-Atlantic Country 12 (January 1991): WM11, WM15-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Allegany County