The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Sheffield, Suzanne. "The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum." Peninsula Pacemaker 26 (August 1997): 14-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region
Skordas, Gust. "Maryland's County Records -- the Eclectic Approach." American Archivist 25 (April 1962): 199-206.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Thompson, Lawrence S. "Foreign Travellers in Maryland, 1900-1950." Maryland Historical Magazine 48 (1953): 337-43.
Notes: An annotated bibliography of the commentary written by 31 foreign visitors to Maryland. Overall, the emphasis is on Baltimore and surrounding area.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Chesapeake Region
Treasures of the Past Resources for the Future: A Preservation Plan for Maryland's Library and Archival Collections. Baltimore: Task Force to Initiate Preservation Planning in Maryland, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Valliant, John R. "Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum: Our First Thirty Years." Weather Gauge 31 (Spring 1995): 4-9.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region
Weiser, Frederick S., ed. "Eighteenth Century German Church Records from Maryland: A Checklist." The Report: A Journal of German-American History 38 (1982): 5-14.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Caroline County, Frederick County, Washington County, Chesapeake Region
Wennersten, John R. "The Calvert Marine Museum." Maryland 17 (Summer 1985): 35-38.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Chesapeake Region
Whitehill, Walter Muir. Independent Historical Societies. Lunenburg, VT: The Stinehour Press, 1962, 162-170.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Chesapeake Region
Berkeley, Henry J. "Extinct River Towns of the Chesapeake Region." Maryland Historical Magazine 19 (1924): 125-34.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Carr, Lois Green. County Government in Maryland, 1689-1709. New York: Garland Publishers, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
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
Jordan, David W. "Political Stability and the Emergence of a Native Elite in Maryland." In The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays in Anglo-American Society. Edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, 243-73. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Locke, Diana. Oyster Fisheries Management of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. Ph.D. diss., Walden University, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Politics and Law, Chesapeake Region
Mason, Keith. "Localism, Evangelicalism, and Loyalism: The Sources of Oppression in the Revolutionary Chesapeake." Journal of Southern History 56 (February 1990): 23-54.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Nash, Gary B. "Revolution on the Chesapeake." Reviews in American History 2 (September 1974): 373-78.
Smith, W. Wayne. Anti-Jacksonian Politics Along the Chesapeake. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1967.
Smith, W. Wayne. "Jacksonian Democracy on the Chesapeake: Class, Kinship and Politics." Maryland Historical Magazine 63 (1968): 55-67.
Smith, W. Wayne. "Jacksonian Democracy on the Chesapeake: The Political Institutions." Maryland Historical Magazine 62 (1967): 381-393.
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
Risjord, Norman K. Chesapeake Politics 1781-1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Notes: This is a richly detailed study of the development of political parties in the three states - Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina - which comprise the Chesapeake region. Using cluster-bloc analysis where possible, especially for Maryland, and more traditional sources where the roll-calls are too scarce, this study focuses on the growth of partisanship in the state legislatures. Sharing the post-war problems of debt, depression, social unrest, as well as reacting to national issues, such as the structure of the central government, western lands, the location of the capital, neutrality, the Jay Treaty, the Quasi-War with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts, as well as other issues, each state responded with subtle differences. Overall, however, these experiences strengthened party identification and organization, so that by the election of 1800 a major party competition existed.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Ackerman, Eric G. "Economic Means Index: A Measure of Social Status in the Chesapeake, 1690-1815." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 26-36.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Notes: Brugger's comprehensive social and cultural history of Maryland is the fruit of the decision by the Maryland Historical Society to commission a new state history in observance of Maryland's 350th anniversary. Brugger takes as his central theme that Maryland's distinction historically was that it represented a middle way-between North and State, slave and free, traditional and modern, rural/suburban/urban. The book considers the interaction of major political, social, and cultural developments. It includes a valuable bibliographical essay; a chronology of events; sets of maps, tables, and figures; and extensive illustrations.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Burnard, Trevor. "A Tangled Cousinry? Associational Networks of the Maryland Elite, 1691-1776." Journal of Southern History 61 (February 1995): 17-44.
Notes: Burnard examines evidence regarding the status of wealthy merchants and planters of eighteenth-century Maryland Chesapeake society, including wills, marriage records, and loans, to determine whether "inward-looking and restrictive" or "outward-looking and expansive" orientations applied to the group. He acknowledges that the evidence reveals close patterns of kinship, traditionally typical of rural areas, but concludes that the Maryland gentry of the era transcended family ties, constructing relationships with a relatively wide social group, and therefore should be characterized as "outward-looking, expansive, and inclusive."
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region