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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Zseleczky, James Waters. "Anne Mynne of Hertingfordbury, Wife of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore (1579-1622)." Chronicles of St. Mary's 22 (September 1974): 397-99.

Abingbade, Harrison Ola. "The Settler-African Conflicts: The Case of the Maryland Colonists and the Grebo 1840-1900." Journal of Negro History 66 (Summer 1981): 93-109.

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Cornelison, Alice, Silas E. Craft, Sr., and Lillie Price. History of Blacks in Howard County, Maryland: Oral History, Schooling and Contemporary Issues. Columbia, MD: Howard County, Maryland NAACP, 1986.

David, Jonathan. "The Sermon and the Shout: A History of the Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware." Southern Folklore Quarterly 51, no. 3 (1994): 241-63.

Eltis, David, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Hanks, Douglas, Jr. "Downes Curtis, Sailmaker." Weather Gauge 33 (Fall 1997): 20-24.

Harvey, Lamont W. "Black Oystermen of the Bay Country... particularly St. Michaels, Maryland." Weather Gauge 30 (Spring 1994): 4-13.

Jordan, Winthrop. White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

Leggett, Vincent O. "The Black Watermen of Shady Side." Maryland Humanities (March 1999): 8-10.

Slezak, Eva, comp. "Blacks Employed in Maritime Related Occupations: Wood's Baltimore City Directory, 1871." Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 11 (Winter 1990): 169-85.

Trivelli, Marifrances. "'I Knew a Ship from Stem to Stern:' The Maritime World of Frederick Douglass." Log of Mystic Seaport 46, no. 4 (1995): 98-108.

Forman, H. Chandlee. The Architecture of the Old South: The Medieval Style, 1585-1850. New York: Russell & Russell, 1948; reprint, 1968.

Lebherz, Ann, and Mary Margrabe. Pre-1800 Houses of Frederick County, Volume II. Frederick, MD: Frederick County Historical Society, 1999.

Bowes, David B. "Just Passing Through." Mid-Atlantic Country 26 (October 1995): 40-41.

Boyd, Thomas Hulings Stockton. The History of Montgomery County, Maryland, from its earliest settlement in 1650 to 1879. Clarksburgh, MD [Baltimore, W. K. Boyle & son, printers], 1879; reprint, Baltimore: Regional Pub. Co, 1968.
Notes: Written following the American, and the County's, Centennial, this work places special emphasis on land grants and prominent men. Includes a directory of the towns, villages, and residents.

Carr, Lois Green. "The Metropolis of Maryland': A Comment on Town Development Along the Tobacco Coast." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Summer 1974): 124-45.
Notes: Many towns in the Chesapeake area failed during the seventeenth century. Towns were not needed as commercial centers for the tobacco trade, the major economy of the area at that time. Carr uses St. Mary's City as an example of such a failure.

"Charles County By Water." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 36-37.

"Charles County, Maryland: The Best Kept Secret This Side of the Potomac." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 34-35.

"Charles County, MD..It's Wild and Waterful." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): [25-35].

Chesser, Helen Brown. "St. George Island Memories." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Spring 1992): 98-104.
Notes: The memories of a woman who grew up on the Island during the early decades of the twentieth century.

Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Georgetown: Jewel of Montgomery County-Part I." Montgomery County Story 41 (November 1998): 49-60.

Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Georgetown: Jewel of Montgomery County-Part II." Montgomery County Story 42 (February 1999): 61-76.

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