The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Rambo, Kyle. "A Small Mammal Survey of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Including the First Records for the Southeastern Shrew (Sorex longirostris) and Masked Shrew (Sorex cinereus) from St. Mary's County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 41 (July/December 1997): 87-88.
Categories: Environment, Military, Science and Technology, St. Mary's County
Sharrer, G. Terry. "The Patuxent: Maryland's Heartland River." Maryland 21 (Spring 1989): 6-23.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Anne Arundel County, Charles County
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Gough, Al. "The St. Mary's Reading Room and Debating Society." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Winter 1992): 161-94.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Gough, Al, Jr. "'It Don't Stop Here Anymore': The James Adams Floating Theater." Chronicles of St. Mary's 37 (Summer 1989): 209-29.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, St. Mary's County
Blodgett, Jan. "Developing Cooperative Archives to Meet the Needs of Small Institutions." Resources Sharing and Information Networks 11 (1996): 59-69.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Cox, Richard J. "Public Records in Colonial Maryland." American Archivist 37 (April 1974): 263-75.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County
Dessaint, Alain. Southern Maryland Directory: A Guide to Researching the Region's Past. Prince Frederick, MD: Southern Maryland Today, 1983.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Faust, Page T. "Keeping History Alive at Sotterly Plantation." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Winter 1998): 338-39.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Foster, Elizabeth. "A Visit to the Saint Clements Island-Potomac River Museum." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 17 (February 1988): 30-34.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
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
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of St. Mary's County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Sotterley Plantation." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 27.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary'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
Holland, Eugenia C. "Anne Arundel Takes Over from St. Mary's." Maryland Historical Magazine 44 (1949) 42-51.
Categories: Politics and Law, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County
Knott, Harry C. "Two Hangings in St. Mary's County, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 41 (Summer 1993): 213-17.
Categories: Politics and Law, St. Mary's 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
"Letters of John F. Dent of Burlington While a Member of the Maryland Assembly of 1864." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (November 1980): 257-67; (December 1980): 269-84.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Loker, William Aleck. "Calvert's Bold Venture: The Origins of Human Rights and Democracy in America." Chronicles of St. Mary's 46 (Spring 1998): 265-74.
Menard, Russell R. "'Maryland's 'Time of Troubles:' Sources of Political Disorder in Early St. Mary's." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Summer 1981): 124-40.
Notes: An excellent analysis of the difficulty faced by the Calverts in establishing a stable political system in Maryland in the first several decades of settlement. Confronted with William Claiborne's commercial outpost on Kent Island, and hostility from other Virginians and their supporters in London, not to mention Richard Ingle's almost fatal attack on the colony in the mid-1640s, Lord Baltimore used his considerable influence and political skill to protect his interests. Within the colony, the ostensible Catholic hegemony was rent by a dispute between the Proprietor and the Jesuits over their influence in secular affairs, and his goal of establishing a hierarchical manorial political system was undermined by the ease with which indentured servants could obtain land and influence.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Papenfuse, Edward C. "Remarks on the History of the Maryland Legislature, 1643-1694." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (May 1984): 149-155.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Raley, J. Frank, Jr. "The Senate Desk 1776 to 1966." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Fall 1992): 145-48.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
"Recognizing Maryland's Role in 'The First Freedom.'" A Briefe Relation 21 (Spring 1999): 1, 8.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Roberts, David. "St. Mary's Elects the President, 1840-1980." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (September 1980): 225-29.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County