The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Gardening Books in Eighteenth Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 106-10.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Genteel and Necessary Amusements: Public Pleasure Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 118-24.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "The Old Man and the Garden: A Chesapeake Craftsman's Eighteenth-Century Grounds." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 5-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Writings about Pleasure and Kitchen Gardening Available in Eighteenth Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 153-59.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Silberhorn, Gene M. Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Sipple, William S. Days Afield: Exploring Wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century : Essays on Anglo-American Society. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Notes: These essays, while largely anthropological, tell a lot about how the Bay region was settled, the problems with this process, and how European practices moved across the landscape.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Thompson, Derek, Charles E. Murphy, Joseph W. Wiedel, and Frank W. Porter, eds. Atlas of Maryland. College Park: University of Maryland Department of Geography, 1977.
Tilp, Frederick. Chesapeake Fact, Fiction & Fun: Pungoteaque, St. Clement, Patapsco, Oxford, Coan. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time: A Brief History of our Geology, Part I: Fathoming the Ocean of Time." Bugeye Times 22 (Fall 1997): 1, 6.
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
Walters, Keith. "Charterboat Fishing." Maryland 25 (Spring 1993): 33-35.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Warner, James, and Margaret J. White. A Portrait of the Bay Country. Winterville, NC: Creative Resources Systems, 1982.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Wharton, James. The Bounty of the Chesapeake. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1953.
Notes: Wharton's little book is one of the most accessible assemblages of references to Bay resources in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Williams, John Page. "Stewing about Oysters." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (December 1993): 14-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Williams, John Page. "Waterfowl Safari." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (November 1994): 20, 22, 24.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Winterbotham, William. An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical view of the America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies. 1795; reprint, New York: Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796.
Notes: An unusual contemporary view of the U.S. as an infant nation, especially of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the City of Washington. Discusses natural wonders, weather, plants, and makes recommendations to "European settlers".
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Breslaw, Elaine G. "Wit, Whimsy, and Politics: The Uses of Satire by the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1744 to 1756." William and Mary Quarterly, 3d series, 32 (April 1975): 295-306.
Notes: An introduction to the group of Annapolis wits whose humorous proceedings have survived in a manuscript at the Johns Hopkins University. The antics of the Tuesday Club open a window on the climate of civil discourse that characterized the Golden Era in Annapolis. In contrast to the political tensions that would soon led to revolution, club members employed parodies to mock political conventions. The actual minutes of the club as edited by Professor Breslaw have been published as the <em>Records of the Tuesday Club, 1745 - 1756</em>.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Davis, Richard Beale. "The Intellectual Golden Age in the Colonial Chesapeake Bay Country." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 78 (1970): 131-143.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Garrigus, Carl E., Jr. "The Reading Habits of Maryland's Planter Gentry, 1718-1747." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Spring 1997): 36-53.
Notes: Studies of reading habits have enjoyed a renaissance in recent years, and this article builds on pioneering research in the 1930s of Joseph Towne Wheeler in analyzing the contents of colonial Maryland bookshelves. The change in reading preferences that occurred in the later eighteenth century brought much greater diversity to personal libraries that formerly were dominated by devotional, legal and classical titles. There also is evidence that reading before 1750 was more intensive, that is, readers tended to return to the same text or passage for repeated readings. This, coupled with the expense of purchasing and importing books, helps explain the relative paucity of published works owned by the literate elite in colonial Maryland.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, 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
Schrader, Richard J. H. L. Mencken: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Dopp, Bonnie Jo. "Music Education History Sources at the MENC Historical Center." Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education 19 (September 1997): 63-65.