The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Kent, Bretton W. Fossil Sharks of the Chesapeake Bay Region. Columbia, MD: Egan, Rees and Boyer, Inc., 1994.
Notes: An excellent manual and discussion about Maryland's most popular fossil, the shark's tooth.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
Kent, Bretton W. Making Dead Oysters Talk. 1988; rev. ed. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, Historic St. Mary's City Commission and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, 1992.
Notes: Kent's analyses of oysters from archaeological sites, tell a cautionary tale of overharvest which went unheeded for three centuries.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Kiger, Robert W., Galvin D. R. Bridson, and Donna M. Connelly, eds. Huntia. Vol 7. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1987.
Notes: In this volume contributors James Reveal, George Frick, Melvin Brown and Rose Broome lay out a remarkable history of Maryland (and the Chesapeake's) earliest botanists, their personal stories, their observations and collections, which are still preserved at the British Museum in London. This is technical material, but salted in are the remarkable human stories and insights into a Chesapeake different from today.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Mackiernan, Gail B., ed. Dissolved Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay: Processes and Effects. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1988.
Notes: The summer loss of dissolved oxygen in deep waters of the Bay is one indicator of the estuary's serious environmental problems. Any student of the Bay should understand this phenomenon.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Middleton, Arthur Pierce. Tobacco Coast. 1953; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Notes: Middleton, subsequently a retired Episcopal Canon, for years directed work at Colonial Williamsburg. This defining volume on Chesapeake Maritime History contains valuable environmental references coupled to the region's colonial economy.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Poag, C. Wylie. Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Notes: Poag's recent book discusses the massive bolide impact which set up the geology beneath Chesapeake Bay. While the impact was centered beneath what is today the Virginia Eastern Shore, parts of the bolide struck in Maryland as well, and affected the entire drainage system.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
Smith, David E., Merrill Leffler, and Gail Mackiernan, eds. Oxygen Dynamics in Chesapeake Bay: A Synthesis of Recent Research. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: A follow-on to Mackiernan, 1988.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Smith, John. The General Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles. 1624; reprint, Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966.
Notes: Facsimile, also reissued by World Publishing, Cleveland, OH. This volume is as close to reading the original as most of us will get. John Smith was the first environmental observer of Bay and watershed, and his insights are sobering when one contemplates the changes we have wrought.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Vokes, Harold E. Miocene Fossils of Maryland. 1957; reprint, Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1968.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
Ward, Lauck W., and David S. Powars. Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Chesapeake Bay Region, Virginia and Maryland. Washington, DC: 28th International Geological Congress, American Geophysical Union, 1989.
Notes: A thorough discussion of how layers of this region's fossils lie in our exposed cliffs. Not a popularly written text, but this is how to find and identify many of the region's marvelous fossils.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Michener, James. Chesapeake. New York: Random House, Inc., 1978.
Notes: Historical novel.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Guest, C. "The Boarding of the Dependent Poor in Colonial America." Social Service Review 63 (March 1989): 92-112.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Jerrard, Margot. "Love and Marriage in Colonial Maryland." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 66-67, 69.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Quinn, David B. "Why They Came." In Early Maryland in a Wider World, edited by David B. Quinn, 119-148. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982.
Hoffer, Peter Charles, and N.E.H. Hull. "The First American Impeachments." William and Mary Quarterly 35 (1978): 653-667.
Categories: Politics and Law, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Other
Kent, Barry C. Susquehanna's Indians. Anthropological Series, no. 6. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania History and Museum Commission, 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Other
Kinsey, W. Fred, III. "Lancaster Before History Began: Prehistoric Archaeology." Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society 99 (1998): 142-171.
Categories: Archaeology, Native American, Before 1600 AD, Other
Klein, Michael J., and J. Sanderson Stevens. "Ceramic Attributes and Accokeek Creek Chronology: an Analysis of Sherds from the Falcon's Landing (18PR131) and the Accotink Meander (44FX1908) Sites." North American Archaeologist 17 (1996): 113-141.
Categories: Archaeology, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Prince George's County, Other
Miller, Shannon. Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region
Neiman, Fraser Duff. An Evolutionary Approach to Archaeological Inference: Aspects of Architectural Variation in the 17th-Century Chesapeake. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1990.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Other
Prehistoric Peoples of Maryland's Coastal Plain. [Baltimore]: Department of Natural Resources, Tidewater Administration Coastal Resources Division, 1979.
Categories: Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Other
Rabb, Theodore K. Jacobean Gentleman: Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Other
Riley, Edward M. "The Virginia Colonial Records Project." National Genealogical Society Quarterly 51 (1963): 81-89.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Other
Rountree, Helen C., ed. Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Other
Stevens, J. Sanderson. "Examination of Shepard and Potomac Creek Wares at a Montgomery Complex Site (44LD521)." Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 14 (1998): 95-126.
Categories: Archaeology, Native American, Before 1600 AD, Other