The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Lee, J. B. "Lessons in Humility: The Revolutionary Transformation of the Governing Elite of Charles County, Maryland." In The Transforming Hand of Revolution. Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Categories: Politics and Law, Charles County
Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.
Notes: This intensive and insightful study of a single county offers insight into several large themes in Maryland history - "the American Revolution as a transforming, ongoing phenomenon, civilian's responses to the War for Independence, the tenor of the nation's formative years, and the nature of Chesapeake society." During this period Charles Country changed from prosperous economy, securely connected to the outside world through overseas trade, into a stagnant backwater, whose forward looking population searched for opportunity elsewhere. Unlike other areas of Maryland, where the Revolutionary years were tumultuous, there were few challenges to the status quo. Cut off from the empire, entrepreneurial whites left the county in search of wealth and opportunity, often as close as Washington, DC, and the population became overwhelmingly unfree.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Charles County
Harte, Thomas J. "Social Origins of the Brandywine Population." Phylon 24 (1963): 369-378.
Notes: Harte seeks to establish the eighteenth-century origins of a distinctive mixed race "Brandywine" population in Charles County, though he fails to explain this social identity for the general reader. He points to Maryland laws against miscegenation and cross-racial sexual relationships as indirect evidence that both had occurred in the colony and cites Charles County records for violations of those laws. The article provides less direct support for his contention that Native American ancestry may also have been involved in the mixed race unions. Harte concludes that isolated family groupings in the eighteenth century served as the basis of the identifiable Brandywine population in the county in the nineteenth century.
Categories: African American, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. "Neighbor Washington." The Record 27 (February 1983): 1-4.
Notes: George Washington's association with Charles County.
Walsh, Lorena S. "The Historian as Census Taker: Individual Reconstitution and the Reconstruction of Censuses for a Colonial Chesapeake County." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, 38 (April 1981): 242-60.
Notes: Walsh uses methods drawn from community studies to reconstitute a census for adult white males in Charles County in 1705, based upon a provincial census and rent rolls from the period. She argues that such methods provide the researcher the opportunity to establish reasonable accurate profiles of Chesapeake society in the colonial period.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Charles County, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Staying Put or Getting Out: Findings for Charles County, Maryland, 1650-1720." William and Mary Quarterly (3d. series), 44 (January 1987): 89-103.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Shomette, Donald G. Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1996.
Notes: Underwater archaeology.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Wearmouth, John M. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad: The Pope 's Creek Branch. Baltimore: Baltimore Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County
Camp, Sharon Lee. Modernization: Threat to Community Politics. Political Intermediaries in Charles County, Maryland. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1977.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Klapthor, Margaret Brown, and Paul Dennis Brown. The History of Charles County, Maryland, Written in its Tercentenary Year of 1958. La Plata, MD: Charles County Tercentenary, Inc., 1958.
Categories: County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Lemann, Nicholas. "The View from a Small Town." Washington Monthly 9 (1977): 21-28.
Categories: Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Rivoire, J. Richard. Homeplaces: Traditional Domestic Architecture of Charles County, Maryland. La Plata: Charles County Community College, Southern Maryland Studies Center, 1990.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Charles County, Other
Shomette, Donald G. "The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 30 (January 2000): 58-61, 94-95, 97.
Categories: Maritime, Charles County, Other, Southern Maryland
Bunting, Elaine. Counties of Southern Maryland. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2002.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Schatz, Don. "Marshall Hall Part II--The Estate." The Record,92 (April 2001): 1-3.
Middleton, Edward L. "Arthur R. Middleton." The Record,94 (October 2001): 1-3.
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].
Sugarman, Joe. "La Plata Rising." Chesapeake Life, 10 (May/June 2003): 60-65, 106.
Categories: County and Local History, Charles County
Simms, Kristin N. "The Swanson Creek Oil Spill: Rights and Responsibilities in the Clean-up and Restoration." Calvert Historian, 30 (2003): 43-49.
Categories: Environment, Charles County, Prince George's County
Steers, Edward, Jr. "Maryland, My Maryland: Charles County and the War of Northern Aggression." North & South, 6 (no. 2, 2003): 42-51.
Categories: Military, Charles County
Arnold-Lourie, Christine M. A Punishment for My Pride: The Hamiltons of Port Tobacco, Maryland, 1860-1900. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.
Ackerman, S J. "Denton's Promise." Chesapeake Life, 11 (June 2005): 61-65.
Categories: County and Local History, Caroline County, Eastern Shore
Meyers, Eugene L. "The Day They Shot Berkeley Muse." Chesapeake Bay Magazine, 28 (January 1999): 48-51, 74-77.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Chesapeake Region
Bowling, Joan L. "Rock Point: 'The Point' at Rock Hall Farm." The Record, 98 (January 2005): 4.
Categories: County and Local History, Charles County
Hayden, Ethel Roby. "Port Tobacco, Lost Town of Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine, 100 (Fall 2005): 284-97.
Categories: County and Local History, Charles County