The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Ashby, Wallace L. Fossils of Calvert Cliffs. Solomons, MD: Calvert Marine Museum Press, 1979.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Bunting, Elaine, and Patricia D'Amario. Counties of Northern Maryland. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.
Notes: A series designed for young readers.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Harford County
Cronon, William B. Changes in the Land, Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Notes: Cronon's work is about New England, but his ecological insights are invaluable to learning about the Chesapeake.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Gottfried, Michael D. "Fossil Pioneers: The Chesapeake Region and the Early History of Paleontology in North America." Bugeye Times 16 (Fall 1991): 1, 6-7.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Grant, John A. "The Flint Rocks." Glades Star 7 (March 1994): 373-75.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Garrett County
Kent, Bretton W. Making Dead Oysters Talk. 1988; rev. ed. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, Historic St. Mary's City Commission and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, 1992.
Notes: Kent's analyses of oysters from archaeological sites, tell a cautionary tale of overharvest which went unheeded for three centuries.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Kryder-Reid, E. "The Archaeology of Vision in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Gardens." Journal of Garden History 14 (January-March 1994): 42-54.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Environment, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Parks: An Interpretive Guide to Catoctin Mountain Park and Cunningham Falls State Park. Blacksburg, VA: McDonald and Woodward Publishing Co., 1995.
Selckmann, August. "The Muddy Old Monocacy." Maryland 24 (Summer 1992): 10-19.
Categories: Environment, Frederick County
Hahn, Faith. "Early Printing in Maryland and Frederick County." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (March 1989): 2-3.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Little, Barbara J. Ideology and Media. Historical Archaeology of Printing in Eighteenth Century, Annapolis, Maryland. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York-Buffalo, 1987.
Rothenhoefer, Francis Petrott. 'The Clustered Spires of Frederick:' The Cultural Creation of Local Community Identity, 1745-1995. Ph.D. diss., George Washington University, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Shifflet, Anne Louise. Church Music and Musical Life in Frederick, Maryland 1745-1845. M.A. thesis, American University, 1971.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Van Newkirk, Betty. "Theatres and Opera Houses in Western Maryland." Journal of the Alleghenies 27 (1991): 73-86.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Adams, Cheryl, and Art Emerson. Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives: A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Washington: Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress, 1998.
Notes: Institutional level descriptions for nineteen Maryland libraries and archives holding significant religious collections. A tremendous level of detail is given. Subject headings are assigned to each institution. This guide is also available online at <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/">https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/</a>.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Washington County
Barquist, Rose, et al. A Source Book for Early Western Maryland History and Genealogy. Shippensburg, PA: Beidel Printing House, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Montgomery County
Davis-Long, Trudie, and Edith Olivia Eader. The Jacob Engelbrecht Marriage Ledger of Frederick County, Maryland, 1820-1890. Monrovia, MD: Paw Prints, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Eader, Edith Olivia, and Trudie Davis-Long, comps. The Jacob Engelbrecht Death Ledger of Frederick County, Maryland, 1820-1890. Monrovia, MD: Paw Prints, 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Eader, Edith Olivia, and Trudie Davis-Long, comps. The Jacob Engelbrecht Property and Almshouse Ledgers of Frederick County, Maryland. Monrovia, MD: Paw Prints, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Fitzgerald, Rebecca, and Mark S. Hudson. "A History of the Historical Society of Frederick County II." The Historical Society of Frederick County Journal (Spring 2001).
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Fitzgerald, Rebecca. "A History of the Historical Society of Frederick County I." The Historical Society of Frederick County Journal (Fall 2000).
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Calvert County, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Glaser, John D. Collecting Fossils in Maryland, Educational Series, no. 4. Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1979.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Frederick County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Frederick County
Hammond, Helen. "Field Trip: Historical Society of Frederick County." Frederick Magazine (April 1994): 31-33.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Frederick County