The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Breen, T. H. Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Handwerker, Tom. "Something is Fishy Down on the Farm." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 13 (Harvest 1991): 18-19.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Johnson, Robert C., ed. "Virginia in 1632." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 65 (1957): 458-466.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Middleton, Authur Pierce. Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of the Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era. Newport News, VA: Mariners Museum, 1953.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Eighteenth-Century Gardens of the Chesapeake." A special issue of the Journal of Garden History: An International Quarterly 9 (July-Sept. 1989): 103-59.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Land, Landlord, and Leaseholder: Estate Management and Tenant Fortunes in Southern Maryland, 1642-1820." Agricultural History 59 (July 1985): 373-396.
Notes: Based on the astonishing records of a Jesuit-owned estate in Charles County that lasted for 175 years, Walsh examined 233 tenants, and the effect of their short term vs. long term leases on resource waste or conservation. The story explains how owners used leasing as a means for plantation development and as an alternative to slave labor.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Abell, William S. Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806-1888), Founder of the Sun of Baltimore. Chevy Chase, MD: Published by the author, 1989.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Bennett, Joyce. "Edwin Warfield Beitzel: Poet, Southern Agrarian, Renaissance Man." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Spring 1999): 345-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Breslaw, Elaine G. "A Perilous Climb to Social Eminence: Dr. Alexander Hamilton and His Creditors." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 433-55.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century
Byron, Gilbert. Gilbert Byron's Chesapeake Seasons: A Cove Journal. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1987.
Notes: Poet and chronicler Gilbert Byron's columns were a popular feature in several Eastern Shore newspapers. This collection of observations and reminiscences culled from his newspaper writings are both biographical and lyrical in quality. Byron captures both an appreciation for a nostalgic past and an awareness of the social and economic changes occurring on his beloved shore.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
Charbeneau, Jim. Shouts and Whispers: Stories from the Southern Chesapeake Bay. White Stone, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Cramton, Willa G. "Selleck Osborn: a Republican Editor in Wilmington, Delaware, 1816-1822." Delaware History 12 (1967): 198-217.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century
Craven, Avery. "Some Historians I Have Known." Maryland Historian 1 (1970): 1-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Crowder, Ralph Leroy. John Edward Bruce and the Value of Knowing the Past: Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora, 1856-1924. Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 1994.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Gardner, R. H. Those Years: Recollections of a Baltimore Newspaperman. Baltimore: Sunspot Books, 1990.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Gustaitis, Joseph. "Mason Locke Weems: 'I Cannot Tell a Lie.'" American History Illustrated 22 (February 1988): 40-41.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Hammett, David, Sr. "Samuel Dashiell Hammett." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 76.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Hoopes, Roy. Cain. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Hoopes, Roy. "John Pendleton Kennedy." Maryland 22 (Spring 1990): 50-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Hoopes, Roy. "Mason Locke Weems, the Publishing Preacher." Maryland 19 (Winter 1986): 36-38.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Jantz, Harold S. "The View from Chesapeake Bay: an Experiment with the Image of America." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 79 (1969): 151-171.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Keys, Thomas E. "Bookmen in Biology and Medicine I Have Known." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 30 (1975): 326-348.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Medicine, Twentieth Century
Land, Aubrey C. "An Unwritten History of Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 61 (1966): 77-80.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century
Leary, Lewis. The Book-Peddling Parson: An Account of the Life and Works of Mason L. Weems. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Religion, Nineteenth Century
Leon, Philip W. Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler. East Haven, CT: InBook, 1995.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century