The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Dugan, Mary L. "Mute Inglorious Milton." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 74 (Autumn 1996): 1, 5-6.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Preston, Dickson J. Newspapers of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Wycherly, H. Alan. "H. L. Mencken vs. The Eastern Shore: December, 1931." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970): 381-390.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Dixon, Michael L. "Postcards: A Link to Cecil's Past." Bulletin of The Historical Society of Cecil County 77/78 (Autumn/Winter 1998): 7-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Cecil County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Charles County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Charles County
Johnson, Ruth Ann. "Cecil County Libraries: Guardians of Minds and Morals." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 59 (September 1991): 6-7.
Manning, John, and Stanley White. "Upper Bay Museum." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 61 (April 1992): 5-6.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Cecil County
Radoff, Morris L. "The Maryland Records in the Revolutionary War." American Archivist 37 (April 1974): 277-85.
Notes: Governmental records are always at risk during times of war. Maryland's records were in an even more precarious position during the Revolutionary War, the Maryland State House was under construction. Radoff discusses the movement of Maryland's records in attempts to keep them safe from harm. Also discussed in the theft of Cecil County land records by British troops.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Cecil County, Prince George's County
The Southern Maryland Collections. Section 1, June 1979 edition: The Book Collections. LaPlata, MD: Charles County Community College, 1979.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Taylor, Morton F. "The Sheriff John F. De Witt Military Museum Opens." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 62 (September 1992): 7.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Twentieth Century, Cecil County
Garrett, Jerre. "A History of the Elkton Police Department." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 65 (September 1993): 1, 3-5.
Categories: Politics and Law, Cecil County
Lee, J. B. "Lessons in Humility: The Revolutionary Transformation of the Governing Elite of Charles County, Maryland." In The Transforming Hand of Revolution. Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Categories: Politics and Law, Charles County
Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.
Notes: This intensive and insightful study of a single county offers insight into several large themes in Maryland history - "the American Revolution as a transforming, ongoing phenomenon, civilian's responses to the War for Independence, the tenor of the nation's formative years, and the nature of Chesapeake society." During this period Charles Country changed from prosperous economy, securely connected to the outside world through overseas trade, into a stagnant backwater, whose forward looking population searched for opportunity elsewhere. Unlike other areas of Maryland, where the Revolutionary years were tumultuous, there were few challenges to the status quo. Cut off from the empire, entrepreneurial whites left the county in search of wealth and opportunity, often as close as Washington, DC, and the population became overwhelmingly unfree.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Charles County
DeSocio, Chuck. "Cecil County Plays Ball." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 70 (Spring 1995): 1, 4-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Harte, Thomas J. "Social Origins of the Brandywine Population." Phylon 24 (1963): 369-378.
Notes: Harte seeks to establish the eighteenth-century origins of a distinctive mixed race "Brandywine" population in Charles County, though he fails to explain this social identity for the general reader. He points to Maryland laws against miscegenation and cross-racial sexual relationships as indirect evidence that both had occurred in the colony and cites Charles County records for violations of those laws. The article provides less direct support for his contention that Native American ancestry may also have been involved in the mixed race unions. Harte concludes that isolated family groupings in the eighteenth century served as the basis of the identifiable Brandywine population in the county in the nineteenth century.
Categories: African American, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Hotchkiss, Horace L. "A Visit to Rose Hill in the 1850's." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 61 (April 1992): 7-8.
Kelso, Fred. "The Port Deposit Black Sox." Bulletin of The Historical Society of Cecil County, 77/78 (Autumn/Winter 1998): 10-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Cecil County
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. "Neighbor Washington." The Record 27 (February 1983): 1-4.
Notes: George Washington's association with Charles County.
"Recipes and Home Cures from the 1840's." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County. 55 (January 1992): 1-2.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Robinson, Dorothy. "The Elkton Debating Society." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County. 63 (December 1992): 4-5.
Walsh, Lorena S. "The Historian as Census Taker: Individual Reconstitution and the Reconstruction of Censuses for a Colonial Chesapeake County." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, 38 (April 1981): 242-60.
Notes: Walsh uses methods drawn from community studies to reconstitute a census for adult white males in Charles County in 1705, based upon a provincial census and rent rolls from the period. She argues that such methods provide the researcher the opportunity to establish reasonable accurate profiles of Chesapeake society in the colonial period.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Charles County, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Staying Put or Getting Out: Findings for Charles County, Maryland, 1650-1720." William and Mary Quarterly (3d. series), 44 (January 1987): 89-103.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Williamson, Elly. "Winter: A Season of Celebration." Bulletin of The Historical Society of Cecil County 80 (Winter 1998): 1, 8-11.
Astarita, Patti, and Jim Tomlin. "The C & D Canal." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 12 (Sunshine 1990): 152-55.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County