The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
High, Mike. The C&O Canal Companion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Notes: A practical guide with good maps and interesting historical commentary.
A History of Road Building in Maryland. Baltimore: State Roads Commission of Maryland, 1958.
Notes: A good summary with many interesting references.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Jacobs, David, and Anthony E. Neville. Bridges, Canals, and Tunnels; the Engineering Conquest of North America. New York: American Heritage, 1968.
Notes: This readable general discussion of the subject with fine illustrations includes material on Maryland. Robert M. Vogel, former curator of mechanical and civil engineering at the Smithsonian Institution was the consultant.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
LeViness, Charles T. History of Road Building in Maryland. Baltimore: Maryland State Roads Commission, 1958.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
McGrain, John. "Roads to Philadelphia." Nuts and Bolts 14 (Spring 1996): [7-9].
McGrain, John. Roads to Philadelphia: Historic Background, Philadelphia Roads Study. Towson, MD: Baltimore County Office of Planning and Zoning, 1990.
Seldon, W. Lynn. Country Roads of Maryland and Delaware. Castine, ME: Country Roads Press, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Transportation and Communication, Chesapeake Region
Tanner, H. S. A Description of the Canals and Rail Roads of the United States, Comprehending Notices of All The Works of Internal Improvement Throughout the Several States. New York: T. R. Tanner and J.D. Disturnell, 1840.
Notes: Maryland is included in this state-by-state compilation of early American internal improvements.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Adolf, Leonard A. "Squanto's Role in Pilgrim Diplomacy." Ethnohistory 11 (1964): 247-261.
Categories: Ethnic History, Native American, Politics and Law, Other
Bridenbaugh, Carl. "The Old and New Societies of the Delaware Valley In the Seventeenth Century." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 100 (1976): 143-172.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Cecil County, Other
Burton, Arthur G., and Richard W. Stephenson. "John Ballendine's Eighteenth-century Map of Virginia." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 21 (1964): 172-178.
Categories: Agriculture, Geography and Cartography, Eighteenth Century, Other
Cowin, Verna L. "Cannel Coal Pendants: Types and Distribution." North American Archaeologist 20 (no. 3, 1999): 239-262.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Native American, Other
Ecenbarger, William. Walkin' the Line: A Journey from Past to Present. New York: M. Evans, 2000.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Other
Ellenberg, George B. "An Uncivil War of Words: Indian Removal in the Press." Atlanta History 33 (1989): 48-59.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Native American, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Other
Ewers, John C. "'Chiefs from the Missouri and Mississippi' and Peale's Silhouettes of 1806." Smithsonian Journal of History 1 (1966): 1-26.
Categories: Native American, Nineteenth Century, Other
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Profits, Pelts, and Power: English Culture in the Early Chesapeake, 1620-1652." Maryland Historian 14 (1983): 14-30.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region
Glassie, Henry. "The Pennsylvania Barn in the South. Part I." Pennsylvania Folklife 15 (1965/66): 8-19.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Geography and Cartography, Twentieth Century, Other
Globensky, Anne Brigid. At Home in Baltimore: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Lumbee Domestic Material Culture. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1999.
Categories: Ethnic History, Native American, Baltimore City, Other
Grant, John A. "Searching for Six Monuments." Glades Star 9 (June 2000): 232-40.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Garrett County, Other
Guyther, Roy. "What's in a Name: How the Towns, Villages and Crossroads of St. Mary's County Got Their Names." Chronicles of St. Mary's 48 (Spring 2000): 11-15.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, St. Mary's County, Other
Harvey, Miles. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime. New York: Random House, 2000.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Other
Hoffman, Bernard G. "John Clayton's 1687 Account of The Medicinal Practices of The Virginia Indians." Ethnohistory 11 (1964): 1-40.
Categories: Ethnic History, Medicine, Native American, Seventeenth Century, Other
Jennings, Francis. "The Indian Trade of the Susquehanna Valley." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 110 (1966): 406-424.
Categories: Native American, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Other
Kansky, Karel J. "Augustine Herman: the Leading Cartographer of the Seventeenth Century." Maryland Historical Magazine 73 (1978): 352-359.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Geography and Cartography, Seventeenth Century, Cecil County, Other
Kent, Barry C. Susquehanna's Indians. Anthropological Series, no. 6. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania History and Museum Commission, 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Other