The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Hulton, Paul. America, 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Notes: These are the first "pictures" of this region, accurately depicting marine, terrestrial and avian species, and both Native Americans and sundry of their crafts. They are widely applicable to the nearby Chesapeake Indians and some drawings may directly depict Bay life because John White explored there during his stay.
Categories: Agriculture, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD
Kent, Bretton W. Fossil Sharks of the Chesapeake Bay Region. Columbia, MD: Egan, Rees and Boyer, Inc., 1994.
Notes: An excellent manual and discussion about Maryland's most popular fossil, the shark's tooth.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
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
Kiger, Robert W., Galvin D. R. Bridson, and Donna M. Connelly, eds. Huntia. Vol 7. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology. Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1987.
Notes: In this volume contributors James Reveal, George Frick, Melvin Brown and Rose Broome lay out a remarkable history of Maryland (and the Chesapeake's) earliest botanists, their personal stories, their observations and collections, which are still preserved at the British Museum in London. This is technical material, but salted in are the remarkable human stories and insights into a Chesapeake different from today.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Mackiernan, Gail B., ed. Dissolved Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay: Processes and Effects. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1988.
Notes: The summer loss of dissolved oxygen in deep waters of the Bay is one indicator of the estuary's serious environmental problems. Any student of the Bay should understand this phenomenon.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Middleton, Arthur Pierce. Tobacco Coast. 1953; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Notes: Middleton, subsequently a retired Episcopal Canon, for years directed work at Colonial Williamsburg. This defining volume on Chesapeake Maritime History contains valuable environmental references coupled to the region's colonial economy.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Poag, C. Wylie. Chesapeake Invader: Discovering America's Giant Meteorite Crater. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
Notes: Poag's recent book discusses the massive bolide impact which set up the geology beneath Chesapeake Bay. While the impact was centered beneath what is today the Virginia Eastern Shore, parts of the bolide struck in Maryland as well, and affected the entire drainage system.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
Smith, David E., Merrill Leffler, and Gail Mackiernan, eds. Oxygen Dynamics in Chesapeake Bay: A Synthesis of Recent Research. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: A follow-on to Mackiernan, 1988.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Smith, John. The General Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles. 1624; reprint, Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966.
Notes: Facsimile, also reissued by World Publishing, Cleveland, OH. This volume is as close to reading the original as most of us will get. John Smith was the first environmental observer of Bay and watershed, and his insights are sobering when one contemplates the changes we have wrought.
Categories: Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Vokes, Harold E. Miocene Fossils of Maryland. 1957; reprint, Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1968.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
Ward, Lauck W., and David S. Powars. Tertiary Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Chesapeake Bay Region, Virginia and Maryland. Washington, DC: 28th International Geological Congress, American Geophysical Union, 1989.
Notes: A thorough discussion of how layers of this region's fossils lie in our exposed cliffs. Not a popularly written text, but this is how to find and identify many of the region's marvelous fossils.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Michener, James. Chesapeake. New York: Random House, Inc., 1978.
Notes: Historical novel.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Guest, C. "The Boarding of the Dependent Poor in Colonial America." Social Service Review 63 (March 1989): 92-112.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Jerrard, Margot. "Love and Marriage in Colonial Maryland." Maryland 25 (December 1993): 66-67, 69.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Miller, Henry Michael. Colonization and Subsistence Change on the 17th Century Chesapeake Frontier. Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region
Quinn, David B. "Why They Came." In Early Maryland in a Wider World, edited by David B. Quinn, 119-148. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982.
Johansen, Mary Carroll. 'Female Instruction and Improvement': Education for Women in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, 1785-1835. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region
"Across Four Centuries: the Dictionary of Virginia Biography." Virginia Cavalcade 47 (1998): 160-165.
Acton, Lucy. "Courtland Farm: Colony of Stars in Maryland." Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred (February 2000): 24-29.
Adams, Willi Paul. "Amerikanische Verfassungdiskussion in Deutscher Sprache: Politische Begriffe in Texten Der Deutschamerikanischen Aufklarung, 1761-88 [American constitutional discussion in the German language: political concepts in texts of the German-American Enlightenment, 1761-88]." Yearbook of German-American Studies 32 (1997): 1-20.
Categories: Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Other
Adolf, Leonard A. "Squanto's Role in Pilgrim Diplomacy." Ethnohistory 11 (1964): 247-261.
Categories: Ethnic History, Native American, Politics and Law, Other
Adomanis, James. Annearundell County Free School, 1723-1912. Arnold, MD: Maryland Center for the Study of History, 2000.
Categories: Education, Anne Arundel County, Other
Agnew, Christopher M. "The Reverend Charles Wharton, Bishop William White and the Proposed Book of Common Prayer, 1785." Anglican and Episcopal History 58 (1989): 510-525.
Aldrich, Duncan M. "Frontier Militias: Militia Laws on the North American and South African Frontiers." In The Frontier: Comparative Studies, Vol. 2. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
Categories: Environment, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Other
Alford, Terry, ed. "'Formerly a Slave': Frederick Douglass Comes to Lanesborough." New England Quarterly 60 (1987): 86-88.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Other