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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Okonowicz, Ed. Disappearing Delmarva: Portraits of the Peninsula People. Elkton, MD: Myst and Lace Publishers, 1997.

Olesker, Michael. Michael Olesker's Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Notes: Selection of columns from the <em>News American</em> and <em>Baltimore Sun</em>, covering the years 1979-1994. His topics include politicians, sports, eccentrics. He presents a loving picture of Baltimore during the last quarter of the twentieth century without overlooking the problems, such as crime, drugs, and poverty, which plague the city.

Perdue, Lewis. Country Inns Of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Washington, DC: Washingtonian Books, 1977.

Randall, Frances E. Mirror on Frederick Through 250 Years. [Frederick, MD]: Great Southern Printing & Manufacturing Co., 2000.

Reps, John. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.
Notes: Early towns did not generally spring out of nowhere. Town planning was common and an important part of Chesapeake Maryland's colonial history. The government played an active role in the founding and formation of towns. Annapolis and the District of Columbia were unique in that their plans did not resemble those common amongst other English colonies.

Risjord, Norman K. Builders of Annapolis: Enterprise and Politics in a Colonial Capital. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1998.
Notes: A history of colonial Annpolis presented through the lives of eleven prominent citizens. Represented are a printer, a governor, a doctor, and a cabinetmaker. Included are such well known Maryland surnames as Carroll, Paca, Dulany, Chase, and Shaw.

Rodricks, Dan. Baltimore: Charm City. Memphis, TN: Towery Publishing, Inc., 1997.

Rodricks, Dan. Mencken Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Tales of Baltimore In The 1980s. Baltimore, MD: Sunspot Books, 1989.
Notes: Compilation of articles that appeared in <em>The Baltimore Sun</em>.

Roth, Hal. You Can't Never Get to Puckum: Folks and Tales from Delmarva. Vienna, MD: Nanticoke Books, 1997.

Sayles, Tim. "The Immutable Smith Island." Mid-Atlantic Country 10 (February 1989): 28-33, 90.

Schultz, Edward Thomas. First Settlements of Germans in Maryland. 1896; reprint, Miami: R. T. Gross, 1976.

Sheehan, K. "Order and Disorder on Smith Island." Raritan 14 (Fall 1994): 109-34.

Sioussat, Annie Leakin. Old Manors in the Colony of Maryland. Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1911.

Slatick, Eugene R. "Maryland's Rivers - Something Special." Maryland Conservationist 52 (March/April 1977): 14-19.

Speed, Bettye. "Bloody Point and its Legends." Isle of Kent (Summer 1990): 196-97.

Spence, Gloria Ryan. "History of Herald Harbor, MD (1924-1984)." Anne Arundel County History Notes 16 (October 1984): [2-4].

Stinson, Ann. Hoopers Island: Today and Many Yesterdays; A Brief History of Hooper's Island Compiled from the Written and Oral Accounts of the People Who Have Lived There. Easton, MD: Easton Publishing Co., 1975.

Tack, George E. "The Romantic Gwynn's Falls Valley." History Trails 26 (Autumn 1991-Winter 1991-92): 1-5.
Notes: A reprint of poet Tack's 1907 <em>Maryland Monthly Magazine</em> article describing the Valley, its businesses, its mills, its homes, etc., including the natural world. It ends with a poem by Folger McKinsey and one by Tack on the Valley.

Thomas, Joseph Brown, Jr. Settlement, Community, and Economy: The Development of Towns in Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, 1660-1775. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1994.
Notes: Thomas argues that the seventeen clustered settlements that dotted the lower Eastern Shore actually functioned as towns. Although legislatively established they have been largely ignored in the history of the Chesapeake region. Most historians argue that the area was rural, when in fact its character was between urban and rural.

Torrusio, Michael, Jr. "Hoopers Island, This Way." Annapolis Quarterly (Fall 1997): 55-63, 135.

Trietal, Ralph. "The Decline and Fall Of Howard County As Prophesied on the One Dollar Bill: A Revue of The Origin and History of Howard County, Maryland by Charles Francis Stein, Jr." Little Patuxent Review 2 (1978-1979): 16-19.

Tull, Willis Clayton, Jr. "An Every Name Index to R.V. Truitt & M.G. Les Callette's 'Worcester County, Maryland's Arcadia.'" Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 23 (Spring 1982): 39-41.

Tyson, John S. The Founders of Ellicott's Mills. Privately printed, sold for the benefit of the Maryland Historical Society, 1994.
Notes: A series of articles originally published in 1847 in the <em>Howard District Press</em>.

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