The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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
Bernard, Kenneth A. "Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War." Lincoln Herald 66 (1964): 115-134.
Categories: African American, Military, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
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
Hartwig, D. Scott. The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1990.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
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
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
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
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
Barton, Donald Scott. Divided Houses: The Civil War Party System in the Border States. Ph.D. diss., Texas A&M University, 1991.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Catton, Bruce. "A Southern Artist on the Civil War." American Heritage 9 (1958): 117-120.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
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
Towers, Frank, ed. "Military Waif: A Sidelight on the Baltimore Riot of 19 April 1861." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Winter 1994): 427-46.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
Henig, Gerald S. Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from Maryland. New York: Twayne Press, 1973.
Notes: A sympathetic biography of a leading Maryland politician who died in 1866 at the early age of forty-eight. A gifted orator and political writer, and a passionate opponent of the Democratic Party, Davis initially associated with the Whig Party, which was popular in the north but less so in the south, just as it was in the throes of disintegration. He then aligned with the newly formed Know Nothing Party, whose primary appeal was nativism and anti-Catholicism, and was elected to Congress in 1855. He was a leading opponent of the Buchanan administration and an early supporter of Abraham Lincoln. Active in trying to stem the tide of secession and to keep Maryland in the Union, he hoped for a Cabinet position, but Montgomery Blair won the appointment. At odds with his constituents, he was defeated for re-election and his political career appeared to be ended. He became gradually disenchanted with Lincoln's leadership, and, after re-election to Congress as a Unconditional Unionist, he led the effort to reassert Congressional leadership over reconstruction policies. When the President pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis bill, he issued a highly publicized protest manifesto and actively opposed Lincoln's renomination. During the 1864 campaign, however, he decided that the Democratic candidate, McClellan, was a greater threat, so he campaigned for the Republican ticket. Davis also played a decisive role in the writing and ratification of the Maryland constitution of 1864. Once again his radical position eroded his constituent base and he was not renominated for his Congressional seat.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Civil War
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
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
"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.
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
"Cecil County Postmasters-1853." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 66 (December 1993): 3, 7.
DeBoard, Kermit. "The Philadephia Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 81 (Spring/Summer 1999): 1, 7.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Cecil County, Eastern Shore