The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Jopp, Harold D. Rediscovery of the Eastern Shore: Delmarva Travelogues of the 1870s. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1986.
Notes: Reprints of articles by four different authors which appeared in the leading nineteenth century publications of <em>Harper's New Monthly Magazine</em>, <em>Lippincott's Magazine</em>, and <em>Scribner's Monthly</em>. The authors included noted illustrator Howard Pyle and Maryland writer George Townsend.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
"Kit Wesler's Manuscript on Claiborne's Trading Post." Isle of Kent (Summer 1991): 227-28.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Lamkau, Paul V. "Notes on a Record of Deaths in a Parish in Calvert County, Maryland, 1900-1946." Calvert Historian 1 (October 1985): 29-31.
Categories: County and Local History, Medicine, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
O'Malley, Catherine L. Odenton: The Town a Railroad Built. Annapolis and St. Michaels, MD: Published by the author, 1978.
Categories: County and Local History, Medicine, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Offutt, William M. Bethesda, a Social History. Bethesda, MD: The Innovation Game, 1995.
Notes: An attempt to present a comprehensive history of Bethesda and its surrounding communities, Montgomery County's seventh election district. The subjects covered in the appendices reflect the wide variety of material dealt with in the book overall. Appendices include "How to set duckpins" and "Rocky Mountain spotted Tick Fever."
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Medicine, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Rhodes, Harry C. Queenstown: The Social History of a Small American Town. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1985.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
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.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Medicine, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Robinson, John M. "History of Pinehurst-Part II To the Forties." Anne Arundel County History Notes 21 (July 1990): 1-2, 7-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Medicine, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Schoch, Mildred C., comp. The Endeavours & Exertions of Queen Anne's County, Maryland During the Revolutionary War 1775-1783. N.p.: [Queen Anne's County Bicentennial Commission, 1976].
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Eighteenth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Shipe, Bess Patterson. "Claiborne's Camelot." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 18 (April 1989): 72-75.
Notes: William Claiborne and Kent Island.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Simon, David, and Edward Burns. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.
Notes: The story of the people of a drug corner in Baltimore's Franklin Square neighborhood.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Medicine, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Speed, Bettye. "Bloody Point and its Legends." Isle of Kent (Summer 1990): 196-97.
Sutton, Stanley B. Beyond the Roadgate: Kent County, 1900-1980. Privately published, 1983.
Notes: This history of twentieth century Kent was compiled by a former Agricultural Extension Officer. Naturally enough, a great deal of emphasis is placed on the agricultural and rural heritage of the County. Pivotal 1980 leaders of the county supply commentary on their areas of expertise.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Medicine, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Truitt, Reginald V. The Saga of Blunt's Warehouse, Kent Island, Maryland. Queen Anne's County Historical Society, 1980.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Vojtech, Pat. "New Age at Kent Narrows." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 22 (April 1993): 30-35.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Vojtech, Pat. "Wye Island." Maryland 21 (Summer 1989): 16-23.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
"The Volunteer Tradition." History Trails 9 (Autumn 1974): 1-8.
Notes: A history of Baltimore County's various volunteer fire companies, arranged by location and order of development.
Categories: County and Local History, Medicine, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Williams, G. Croft. "Old Queenstown." Queen Anne's County Historical Society Newsletter 3 (August 1987): 3-9.
Categories: County and Local History, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Willis, Bob. "Harbor to Shore-And Back Again." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): 79, 81.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.
Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Wingate, Phillip J. Before the Bridge. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1985.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Education, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Dorchester County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Capper, John, Garrett Power, and Frank Shivers. Chesapeake Waters: Pollution, Public Health and Public Opinion, 1602-1972. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1983.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Environment, Ethnic History, Medicine, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region