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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.
Annotation / 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".
Woodward, William. "The Thoroughbred Horse and Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 17 (1922): 139-62.
Wirtz, Willem. Baltimore and Streetcars 1926. Baltimore: Baltimore Streetcar Museum, 1988.
Wiltbank, William White. "Colonel Thomas White, of Maryland." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1 (no. 4, 1877): 420-38.
Categories:
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences
Winkler, Wayne. "Minton Somers House is in the Way of County Government and Must Come Down!" News and Notes from the Historical Society of Charles County, 93 (July 2001): [2].
Wadlington, Walter. "The Loving Case: Virginia's Anti-Miscegenation Statute in Historical Perspective." Virginia Law Review 52 (1966): 1189-1223.
Warner, William W. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
Annotation / Notes: Must reading for anyone wishing to know the Chesapeake, its environment and water ways.
Warner, William W. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1976.
Annotation / Notes: Naturalist writer Warner examines the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab-the "beautiful swimmer"--and the watermen whose distinctive economy and life-style have been based upon it. Warner uses the cycle of the seasons to trace the complex relationship between natural environment and human community, with attention both to the social patterns and economics of water-related societies. Traditional watermen communities of the Chesapeake Bay region receiving considerable attention are Deal Island, Smith Island, Kent Island, and Crisfield in Maryland, and Tangier Island in Virginia.
Wiser, Vivian. "Erie Locke: A Forgotten Superintendent of Agriculture." Agricultural History 41 (1967): 405-406.
Annotation / Notes: Erie Locke's only connection to Maryland was his birth in Rising Sun in 1823. Lincoln's Secretary of Interior appointed him superintendent of agriculture in the Patent Office, but only four months later, Locke joined the Union Army. His successor, Isaac Newton, was the first commissioner of the new Department of Agriculture. After the war, Locke and others developed the citrus industry in Pasadena, CA.
Categories:
Agriculture,
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences
Wiser, Vivian. "Improving Maryland's Agriculture, 1840-1860." Maryland Historical Magazine 64 (1969): 105-132.
Wiser, Vivian. "Maryland in the Early Land-Grant College Movement." Agricultural History 36 (1962): 194-199.
Wiser, Vivian. The Movement for Agricultural Improvement in Maryland, 1785-1865. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1963.
Wiser, Vivan. "Maryland in the Early Land-Grant College Movement." Agricultural History, 36 (October 1962): 194-99.
Zielinski, Vince. "Camp Johnson - Ellicott Mills Union Army Camp - Where Are You?" The Legacy, 50 (Spring 2014): 5, 7.
Volk, Viki. "The Last Watermen." SlackWater, 4 (Spring 2004): 115-18.
Categories:
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences
Volk, Viki. "Portrait of a Lady." Maryland Life, 3 (July/August 2007): 30, 32.
Categories:
Women
Zuck, Victor. "Innovation and Restoration of the 3/14 Mighty Wurlitzer for the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown." Theatre Organ 36 (May 1994): 6-13.
Valentine, Vikki. "The Last Tobacco Farmer." Chesapeake Life, 9 (November/December 2003): 68-73, 106-7.
Categories:
Agriculture
Valentine, Vikki. "Driving Force." Chesapeake Life, 10 (January/February 2004): 68-73.
Categories:
Environment
Vaise, Vincent. "A Classic Beauty." MdHS News, (Fall 2013): 26-28.
Categories:
Fine and Decorative Arts
Weldon, Ulysses. Lake Artemesia in Pictures. N.p.: The Author, 2016.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Prince George's County
Uchida, Tsutomu. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Service Records Rectify Some Discrepancies in His Biographies." Notes & Queries, 64 (March 2017): 159-61.
Troesken, Werner. "Patronage and Public-Sector Wages in 1896." Journal of Economic History, 59 (June 1999): 424-46.
Categories:
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Nineteenth Century
Topham, Washington. "First Railroad into Washington and its Three Depots." Rec. Col. Hist. Soc., 27 (1925): 175-247.
Categories:
County and Local History,
Transportation and Communication
Whall, Tony. Sister Mary Elizabeth Gintling: A Life for God. Berlin, MD: Salt Water Media, 2015.
Weiner, Tom. "A Better Betterton." Mid-Atlantic Country 11 (October 1990): 59-60.
Categories:
County and Local History
Waldron, Tom. Pride of the Sea: Courage, Disaster, and a Fight for Survival. New York: Citadel Press, 2004.
Categories:
Maritime
Wimbrow, Tom. "A Child's-Eye View of Main Street, Berlin, Maryland, Circa 1943-1953." Shoreline, 19 (January 2012): 8-12.
Wimbrow, Tom. "Making Ends Meet in Whaleyville: Providing Necessities in a Cash-Starved Economy." Shoreline, 21 (January 2015): 18-20.
Zimmerman, Tim. "The Wreck of the Levin J. Marvel." Chesapeake Bay Magazine, 31 (August 2001): 58-63, 104.
Categories:
Maritime
Wright, Tim. "That Extra Little Lift." Air & Space Smithsonian, 22 (January 2007): 58-61.
Categories:
Transportation and Communication
Wlazlowski, Tiffany. "Harriet Tubman: Moses of her People." Maryland 28 (February 1996): 32-34.
Wlazlowski, Tiffany. "Putting on the Glitz." Maryland 28 (November/December 1996): 22-25.
Wlazlowski, Tiffany. "Chesapeake Bay Blues." Maryland, 28 (September/October 1996): 20-23.
Categories:
Maritime,
Chesapeake Region
Tidwell, William A. "Booth Crosses the Potomac: An Exercise in Historical Research." Civil War History 36 (December 1990): 325-33.
Tidwell, William A. "Charles County: Confederate Cauldron." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 16-27.
Annotation / Notes: Although largely rural and poorly populated, Charles County played an important role during the Civil War. A very large number of its citizens were actively involved in Confederate activities to the point where Charles County could be seen as a Confederate underground. The most well known related event was John Wilkes Booth's escape attempt through the County.
Tidwell, William A. "April 15, 1865." Civil War History 42 (1996):220-239.
Thorton, Willis. "The Day They Burned the Capitol." American Heritage, 6 (December 1954): 49-53.
Categories:
Military,
Nineteenth Century
Thornton, Tim. "The Palatinate of Durham and the Maryland Charter." American Journal of Legal History, 45 (July 2001): 235-55.
Categories:
Politics and Law,
Religion
Thompson, Vernon. "A Waterman's Calendar." SlackWater, 1 (Spring 1998): 32-39.
Categories:
Maritime
Wortham, Thomas. "Did Emerson Blackball Frederick Douglass from Membership in the Town and Country Club?" New England Quarterly 65 (June 1992): 295-97.
Underwood, Thomas A. "Thomas Wolfe and H. L. Mencken." Menckeniana 106 (Summer 1988): 1-4.
Wikle, Thomas A. "Those Benevolent Boosters: Spatial Patterns of Kiwanis Membership in the United States." Journal of Cultural Geography 17 (1997): 1-19.
Tongue, Thomas. A History of Saint Peter's Chapel: Religious Activities in Lower Calvert County, Maryland, Prior to 1889, and the Next 100 Years. [Baltimore: The Author], 1989.
Wilson, Teresa. "Tobacco Barns: Bellwethers of Change." SlackWater, 5 (Spring 2006): 57-61.
Whalen, Terence. Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Teachout, Terry. The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
Categories:
Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing
Teachout, Terry. "The Mencken Who Matters." Menckeniana, 168 (Winter 2003): 1-14.
Categories:
Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing
Taylor, A. Vernon. Bonnie Blink Corn Husking Pennies. Baltimore: published by the author, 1984.
Categories:
Agriculture
Taylor, Yuval. Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Tate, Thad W. "The Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake and Its Modern Historians." In The Chesapeake in the Seventeeth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society. Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman eds., 3-50. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Washington, Tanya. "Reflections on a Great Dissenter." Maryland Law Review, 72 (no. 4, 2013): 1141-44.
Categories:
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences
Wilson, Woodrow T. Quindocqua, Maryland: Indian Country. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1980.
Wilson, Woodrow T. Crisfield, Maryland, 1676-1976. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1977.
Annotation / Notes: A scrapbook conglomeration of information on Crisfield, its peoples, and the nearby island communities and the town of Marion. Written for the American Bicentennial there is a great deal of emphasis placed on the town's celebration, including special projects and the time capsule. Heavy in genealogical information, it also includes brief histories of local businesses and photographs of major Somerset County historic houses.
Wilson, Woodrow T. Thirty-Four Families of Old Somerset County, Maryland. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1974.
Thomas, Vivien T. Pioneering Research in Surgical Shock and Cardiovascular Surgery: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock, an Autobiography. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
Annotation / Notes: A Maryland physician's life and career.
Sweeney, Thomas W. "Riversdale Changes for the Better." Historic Preservation News 33 (December 1993/January 1994): 28-29.
Sweeney, Thomas W. "Enhancing a Legacy." Preservation News 30 (June 1990): 3, 15.
Annotation / Notes: Batchelor's Hope.
Whitman, Suzanne Voss White. The Knoll in Green Spring Valley. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985.
Sutto, A. "Lord Baltimore, the Society of Jesus, and Caroline Absolutism in Maryland, 1630-1645." Journal of British Studies, 48 (July 2009): 631-52.
Tamulevich, Susan. "Eastern Eden." Mid-Atlantic Country 16 (June 1995): 54-57, 80.
Categories:
Environment
Wolfe, Susan. "'Marietta'." Passport to the Past 2 (July/August 1991): 1, 3, 7-8.
Wolfe, Susan. "'God's Will Be Done'." Passport to the Past 4 (Fall 1993): 4-5.
Trail, Susan. "Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation: The Creation of Antietam National Cemetery." Catoctin History, 6 (Fall/Winter 2005): 2-9.
Trail, Susan W. Remembering Antietam: Commemoration and Preservation of a Civil War Battlefield. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Taylor, Susan. Berlin. Images of America series. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.
Wolfe, Susan. "Abraham Barnes' Role in the Albany Congress: Creating a Blueprint for the U.S. Constitution." Chronicles of St. Mary's, (Winter 2011): 20-24.
Wolfe, Susan. "Dr. J. Roy Guyther--A Quiet Icon." Chronicles of St. Mary's, (Summer 2011): 3-4.
Categories:
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences,
Medicine
Tatterson, Susan. Abandoned Maryland: Ruin and Restoration. [Charlestown, SC?]: America Through Time/Arcadia Publishing, 2018.
Suit, Verna. Potomac Craftsmen. Silver Spring, MD: Crackle Press, 1996.
Categories:
Fine and Decorative Arts,
Montgomery County
Suit, Verna. "Mysterious Maryland." Mystery Scene, 206 (Fall 1008): 32-36.
Categories:
Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing
Stroock, William. "On the Road to Guilford Courthouse with Colonel Otho Holland Williams." Maryland Historical Magazine, 103 (Winter 2008): 404-15.
Categories:
Military,
Eighteenth Century
Streissguth, Tom. Maryland: The Thirteen Colonies. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2002.
Categories:
General
Strathman, Theodore A. "Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago." Environmental History, 21 (January 2016): 175-77.
Categories:
Environment,
Baltimore City
Storr, Will. Will Storr vs. the Supernatural. New York: Harper, 2006.
Stilll, William. The underground railroad. New York: Arno Press, 1968.
Ujifusa, Steven. Barons of the Sea: and their race to build the world's fastest clipper ship. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Categories:
Maritime,
Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Annotation / Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories:
Agriculture,
Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning,
County and Local History,
Economic, Business, and Labor History,
Environment,
Fine and Decorative Arts,
Science and Technology,
Twentieth Century,
Cecil County,
Dorchester County,
Kent County,
Queen Anne's County,
Somerset County,
Talbot County,
Worcester County,
Chesapeake Region,
Eastern Shore
Treder, Steve. "Paul Richards: The Wizard of Waxahachie." Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, 15 (Spring 2007): 1-31.
Vogel, Steve. Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks that Saved the Nation. New York: Random House, 2013.
Categories:
Military,
War of 1812
Whitman, T. Stephen. "Diverse Good Causes: Manumission and the Transformation of Urban Slavery." Social Science History 19 (Fall 1995): 333-70.
Whitman, T. Stephen. The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimore and Early National Maryland. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Whitman, Torrey Stephen. Slavery, Manumission, and Free Black Workers in Early National Baltimore. Ph.D. diss., The Johns Hopkins University, 1993.
Young, Stephen A. "The Mencken-Lewis Connection." Menckeniana 94 (Summer 1985): 10-16.
Stephens, Suzanne. "Mattin Center: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland." Architectural Review, 190 (August 2002): 150-53.
Whitman, T. Stephen. "Manumission and Apprenticeship in Maryland, 1770-1870." Maryland Historical Magazine, 101 (Spring 2006): 55-71.
Categories:
African American,
Economic, Business, and Labor History
Whitman, T. Stephen. "Industrial Slavery at the Margin: the Maryland Chemical Works." Journal of Southern History, 59 (February 1993): 31-62.
Categories:
Economic, Business, and Labor History
Whitman, T. Stephen. Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black and White Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007.
Categories:
African American,
Chesapeake Region
Wrage, Stephen. "Teaching Ethics at a Military Academy." International Studies Perspectives, 13 (February 2012): 21-25.
Categories:
Military
Whitman, T. Stephen. The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in Baltimoreand Early National Maryland. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky,2015.
Categories:
African American,
Baltimore City
Voss, Stephen. "Antietam Battlefield." Preservation, 68 (Fall 2016): 21.
Strass, Stephanie A. "American Women Artists: 1819-1947." American Art Review, 15 (January/February 2003): 132-41.
Categories:
Fine and Decorative Arts
Talty, Stephan. Saving Bravo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Categories:
Military
Stec, Stephen. "Riley v. Worthington: Joseph Willson's Feuding Family of Early Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story, 60 (Winter 2017): 1-17.
Stanton, Tom. Ty and the Babe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Stanley, Vaughan. "The Northern Neck Waterfront and the Chesapeake World." Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine 40 (1990): 4554-4566.
Stabler, Stanley. "When Horses Made Sandy Spring Run." Legacy 15 (Summer 1995): 6.
Sridhara, Srinivas. Continuity of Care for Schizophrenia Treatment in Maryland Medicaid. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2010.
Categories:
Medicine
Sperling, Stephanie Taleff. "The Middle Woodland Period in Central Maryland: A Fresh Look at Old Questions." Maryland Archeology, 44 (March 2008): 22-36.
Categories:
Archaeology
Spaulding, Stacy. "'As Though the Sixties Never Happened': Newspaper Coverage of a First Amendment Battle Over Baltimore's Last Blackface Act." American Journalism, 29 (Summer 2012): 59-83.