The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Pittman, LaVern. "Walnut Level: A Model Farm in Allegany County." Journal of the Alleghenies 30 (1994): 3-12.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Allegany County
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
Adler, Larry. It Ain't Necessarily So. New York: Grove Press, 1987.
Notes: Autobiography of a Baltimore-born musician.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Beitzell, Edwin W., ed. "Diaries of John F. Dent of Burlington 1853-1898." Chronicles of St. Mary's 27 (April 1979): 25-35; (May 1979): 37-52; (June 1979): 53-65; (August 1979): 77-88; (October 1979): 101-11.
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
Buckler, Mary Agnes. "Goodbye to the Good Old Days." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Summer 1998): 295-97.
Burwell, Gale. "Henry N. Hotchkiss." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Summer 1995): 33-36.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Religion, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Calhoun, Stephen D. The Marylanders: Without Shelter or a Crumb. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County, Civil War, Southern Maryland
Calhoun, Stephen D. "Col. John Henry Sothoron 1807-1893." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Summer 1992): 113-28.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Dean, David M. "Meshach Browning: Bear Hunter of Allegany County, 1781-1859." Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996): 73-83.
Notes: Meshach Browning was the author of an autobiography, <em>Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter</em>, that might more properly be seen as a tall tale wrapped around the framework of an actual life. Browning (1751-1859) inhabited the frontier in the westernmost part of Maryland that later became Garrett County. He claimed to have killed 400 bears in his career. For those attracted to the stories of Davy Crockett or Paul Bunyon, Meshach Browning's life offers entertaining reading.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County
Delaplaine, Edward S. John Phillip Sousa and the National Anthem. Frederick, MD: Great Southern Press, 1983.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
"Diary of Dr. Joseph L. McWilliams 1868-1875." Chronicles of St. Mary's 25 (January 1977): 2-8; (October 1977): 315-22.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Faust, Page T. "Dr. Walter Hanson Stone Briscoe." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Winter 1998): 339-42.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Fenwick, LaVerne M. "The Hebbs of St. Mary's County, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 39 (Spring 1991): 1-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Gough, Al, Jr. "The Life and Times of Asa Ardells Lawrence, Officer-Gentleman-Carpetbagger-Entrepreneur." Chronicles of St. Mary's 39 (Winter 1991): 65-95.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Guyther, J. Roy. "The Best of Two Worlds." Chronicles of St. Mary's 42 (Fall 1994): 349-51.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
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
Hodges, Raymond. "Random Recollections-Pleasant Valley Farm." Chronicles of St. Mary's 41 (Winter 1993): 264-72.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
"Joseph Harris of 'Ellenborough'." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Spring 1997): 189-93.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Kravetz, Sallie. Ethel Ennis, the Reluctant Jazz Star: An Illustrated Biography. Baltimore: Gateway Press/Hughes Enterprises, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Lewis, Clifford III., ed. "A Relation of a Voyage Made by Mr. Cyprian Thorowgood (from the Patuxent) to the Head of the Baye, April 24-May 5, 1634." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (November 1984): 201-207.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Loker, William A., Jr. "Aleck Loker: Champion Orator." Chronicles of St. Mary's 45 (Fall 1997): 247-53.
The McKaig Journal, a Confederate Family of Cumberland. Cumberland, MD: Allegheny County Historical Society, 1984.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Maturi, Richard J. Francis X. Bushman: A Biography and Filmography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998.