The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Schofield, Clay. "An Annotated Bibliography of Folklore Material for the Eastern Shore." Free State Folklore 3 (Winter 1976-1977): 19-55.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
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
Vansant, Thelma M., Elizabeth Westcott Bryan, and Frances S. Clendaniel. "The 50th Anniversary of the Historical Society of Kent County." Old Kent 2 (December 1986): 1-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Brown, C. Christopher. "Democracy's Incursion into the Eastern Shore: The 1870 Election in Chestertown." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 338-46.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Johnstone, Gene. "How a Kent County Senator Saved Andrew Johnson's Presidency." Old Kent 16 (Spring 1999): 3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Kent County, Eastern Shore
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
Burris, Anne E. "Little-Known Resting Place of Some Ringgolds." Old Kent 15 (Spring 1998): 3.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Deringer, H. Hurtt. "Tolchester." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1987): 26-29.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County
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
Horne, Patricia E. The Organizational Network of Kent County, Maryland: 1650-1800. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973.
"The Hyer-Sullivan Match." Kent Shoreman 9 (September 1974): 45-47.
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. "Neighbor Washington." The Record 27 (February 1983): 1-4.
Notes: George Washington's association with Charles County.
Robson, Nancy Taylor. "The Ghosts of Kent County." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): 24-25, 27.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County, Eastern Shore
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
Byron, Gilbert. "The Old Chester River Bridge." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 16 (September 1986): 44-45.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Kent County
Shomette, Donald G. Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1996.
Notes: Underwater archaeology.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Wearmouth, John M. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad: The Pope 's Creek Branch. Baltimore: Baltimore Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County
Grindle, Jenifer. "'My Dear Nannie': Society and the Role of Women in 19th Century Maryland and Washington D.C." Old Kent 9 (Summer 1992): 1, 3-4.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
"Mary Elizabeth Wethered's Diary." Old Kent 5 (Spring 1989): 1-2; 5 (Fall 1989): 1-2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Camp, Sharon Lee. Modernization: Threat to Community Politics. Political Intermediaries in Charles County, Maryland. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1977.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Klapthor, Margaret Brown, and Paul Dennis Brown. The History of Charles County, Maryland, Written in its Tercentenary Year of 1958. La Plata, MD: Charles County Tercentenary, Inc., 1958.
Categories: County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Lemann, Nicholas. "The View from a Small Town." Washington Monthly 9 (1977): 21-28.
Categories: Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Naul, G. Marshall. "The Mason-Dixon Line and Kent County." Old Kent 17 (Spring 2000): 1-2.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Kent County, Other, Eastern Shore