The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
DeGast, Robert. Western Wind, Eastern Shore: A Sailing Cruise Around the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
Notes: De Gast sails a small boat around the entire DelMarVa Peninsula, an interesting voyage with useful observations.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore. Seventeen Maryland Rivers. New York: Holt Reinhart and Winston, 1944.
Notes: Footner writes mostly stories about history, but he does view Chesapeake river environments from a mid-1940s perspective.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Heckscher, Christopher M. "Distribution and Habitat Associations of the Eastern Mud Salamander, Pseudotriton montanus, on the Delmarva Peninsula." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 11-14.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Walters, Keith. "Fishing Historic La Trappe Creek." Maryland 20 (Summer 1988): 78-79.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Dorchester County, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Preston, Dickson J. Newspapers of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Wycherly, H. Alan. "H. L. Mencken vs. The Eastern Shore: December, 1931." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970): 381-390.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Corddry, Mary U. Museums and Monuments of the Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1990.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Enoch Pratt Free Library. The Eastern Shore of Maryland: An Annotated Bibliography. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1980.
Categories: General, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Frederick Douglass: A Register and Index of His Papers in the Library of Congress. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1976.
Categories: African American, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Dorchester County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Schofield, Clay. "An Annotated Bibliography of Folklore Material for the Eastern Shore." Free State Folklore 3 (Winter 1976-1977): 19-55.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. "One Man's Museum: Brannock Maritime Museum." Maryland 20 (Summer 1988): 46-49.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Cassell, Frank A. Merchant Congressman in the Young Republic: Samuel Smith of Maryland. Madison: The University Press of Wisconsin, 1971.
Notes: Samuel Smith epitomizes the history of Baltimore City during the early republic. An officer during the Revolution and the commander of the forces that defended the city against the British attack in 1813, a member of an important merchant family whose economic connections helped him establish a political power base that stretched almost five decades, and sometimes brought him to the brink of economic ruin, he was a major political figure from George Washington's presidency through Andrew Jackson's. His career also reveals the elusiveness of political labels. As a Republican leader in the 1790s, he opposed the policies of the Federalists and supported those of Thomas Jefferson, but he and his brother Robert Smith had a falling out with James Madison, and by the 1830s he was courted by the more democratic Jacksonians who refused to anoint his kin as party leaders.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Notes: A comprehensive examination of the political background, military operations, and diplomatic closure of "Mr. Madison's War." It may have been forgotten in other areas, but for Maryland the War of 1812 was all too real. The Royal Navy roamed the Chesapeake with impunity, occupied Tangier Island, burned Frenchtown, attacked St. Michaels and Havre de Grace, sacked the nation's capitol after defeating the militia at Bladensburg, before meeting defeat after a combined sea-land attack on Baltimore City, which was immortalized in Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner." There is also a chapter on the infamous Baltimore riot of 1812.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, War of 1812
Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced Baltimore during the War of 1812. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, Published for Mystic Seaport, Inc., 1977.
Notes: The British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 was motivated by a desire to punish the city for being a nest of republicans and privateers. This book traces in admirable detail the history of privateering - from the ships, outfitting, captains and crews, investors, their successes and failures, through the distribution of the prize money. While the pirates on the Spanish main may have been the dregs of the sea, Baltimore's privateers were underwritten by some of its leading mercantile and political leaders. The book includes useful appendices identifying the privateers, investors and proceeds.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Coers, D. V. "New Light on the Composition of Ebenezer Cook's Sot-Weed Factor." American Literature 49 (January 1978): 604-06.
Notes: Coers offers evidence to support the contention that Ebenezer Cook's satire <em>The Sot-Weed Factor</em> was likely written no earlier than 1702, later than the 1695 date previously ascribed. He draws upon internal references in Cook's writing to Queen Anne, not crowned monarch until 1702, and a Dorchester County Court land record to support his case. The later date would suggest that the work was based on his visit to Maryland in the 1690s, but not written until afterwards.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Sparks, Barry. "From Maryland's Past: The Dorchester County Baseball War." Maryland 20 (Summer 1988): 41.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. "Dorchester County's Celebrity Hunt." Maryland 20 (Autumn 1987): 16- 19.
Broad, David B. "Annie Oakley: Woman, Legend, and Myth." Journal of the West 37 (January 1998): 11-18.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Kercheval, Nancy. "Anne Oakley's Life in Cambridge." Annapolis 7 (June 1993): 12A-15A.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Murphy, John H. "Little Miss Sure Shot's Sojourn in Cambridge." Maryland 13 (Winter 1980): 6-9.
Notes: Annie Oakley.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Riggs, Cynthia. "Tenders of Fishing Creek." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (May 1989): 48-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Rudoff, Hyman. "Annie Oakley Slept Here." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 12 (Fireside 90-91): 234-35.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore