The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
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
Thomas, Joseph Brown, Jr. Settlement, Community, and Economy: The Development of Towns in Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, 1660-1775. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1994.
Notes: Thomas argues that the seventeen clustered settlements that dotted the lower Eastern Shore actually functioned as towns. Although legislatively established they have been largely ignored in the history of the Chesapeake region. Most historians argue that the area was rural, when in fact its character was between urban and rural.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Dorchester County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Tracey, Grace L., and John P. Dern. Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987.
Notes: A history of that portion of Prince George's County that in 1748 became Frederick County as told through the stories of the original land patents and their owners. The appendix includes many handy lists including a list of 1733-1734 inhabitants, early German Settlers, and Frederick County Muster Rolls, ca. 1757.
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County, Prince George's County
Truitt, Charles J. Historic Salisbury Updated 1662-1982. Salisbury, MD: Historical Books, Inc., 1982.
Notes: As the author states, this is an "encyclopedic history", almost every conceivable subject is addressed including health care facilities, agribusiness, sports, the Delmarva separatist movements, the slave trade, fires, and so on. It is especially useful in the documentation it presents of the varied twentieth century society.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Transportation and Communication, Wicomico County
Walker, J. "Clarke Place." Frederick Magazine (May 1992): 11.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Walston, Mark. "Seneca Stone: Building Block of the Nation's Capital." Maryland 18 (Winter 1985): 39-42.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Wennersten, Jack. "Behind the Wire: When the Afrika Korps Came to Somerset County." Maryland Magazine 14 (Autumn 1982): 6-7.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Military, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
White, Dan. Crosscurrents in Quiet Water: Portraits of the Chesapeake. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987.
Notes: A photo essay of the changing lives of the Eastern Shore's peoples focusing on watermen, boat builders, environmentalists, and chicken farmers. Special emphasis is placed on Smith Island and Crisfield. Photographs by Jon Naso and Marion Warren.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
White, Roger. "Sappington: One of Anne Arundel's Vanished Villages." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (April 1991): 13-14.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Wiley, Flora H. "Third Precinct-Fourth District." Harford Historical Bulletin (Winter 1984): 1-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Harford County
Alsop, George. A Character of the Province of Mary-land. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers, 1902.
Arabas, Karen Borza. Fire and Vegetation Dynamics in the Eastern Serpentine Barrens. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1997.
Categories: Agriculture, Environment
Benson, Robert Louis. "Historical Survey of the Natural Resources of Anne Arundel County." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (October 1991): 11-13.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Anne Arundel County
Benson, Robert Louis. "Historical Survey of the Natural Resources of Anne Arundel County-Part Two." Anne Arundel County History Notes 23 (January 1992): 13-14.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Anne Arundel County
Blair, Carvel H., and Willits D. Ansel. Chesapeake Bay Notes and Sketches. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1970.
DiLisio, James E. Maryland: A Geography. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983.
Categories: Environment, Geography and Cartography
Fusonie, Alan, and Donna Jean. George Washington, Pioneer Farmer. Mount Vernon, VA: Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, 1998.
Notes: Washington's life gives many insights into colonial farming, and he had many contacts among Maryland Agriculturalists.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Hulton, Paul. America, 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Notes: These are the first "pictures" of this region, accurately depicting marine, terrestrial and avian species, and both Native Americans and sundry of their crafts. They are widely applicable to the nearby Chesapeake Indians and some drawings may directly depict Bay life because John White explored there during his stay.
Categories: Agriculture, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD
Rollo, Vera A. Foster. A Geography of Maryland : Ask me! About Maryland. 1984; 2d edition, Lanham, MD: Maryland History Press, 1994.
Categories: Environment, Geography and Cartography
Valentino, David Wayne. Tectonics of the Lower Susquehanna River Region, Southeastern Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland: Late Proterozoic Rifting to Late Paleozoic Dextral Transpression. Ph.D. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993.
Categories: Environment, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Cecil County, Harford County
Fischer, David Hackett. "John Beale Bordley, Daniel Boorstin, and the American Enlightenment." Journal of Southern History 28 (1962): 326-342.
Categories: Agriculture, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Harrar, H. Joanne. "Maryland: Abraham Milton The Farmer's Companion 1761." In Thirteen Colonial Americana: A Selection of Publications Issued in the British Provinces of North America During the Final Half-Century of the Colonial Era. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 1977.
Abel, E. Lawrence. Singing the New Nation: How Music Shaped the Confederacy, 1861-1865. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2000.
Notes: An in-depth look at every aspect of music during the Civil War, as it pertains to the southern cause. Although not focused on any particular state, there are important Maryland connections, for example the background and impact of "Maryland, My Maryland!" Cultural and political context are this author's strong suits, as he describes band music, songs of the common soldiers, parlor music of the day, and theatrical offerings.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Military, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century
Baer, Elizabeth. Seventeenth Century Maryland: A Bibliography. Baltimore: John Work Garrett Library, 1949.
Notes: This work supplies not only descriptive cataloging for 209 seventeenth century Maryland books and maps, but also provides insights into the collecting habits of the founder of the Evergreen Collection. Reproductions of title pages are included.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City