The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Warfield, Sandra K. A Newspaper History of Life in Washington County: 1820-1835, the Coming of the C & O Canal. Hagerstown, MD: Washington County Free Library, 1990.
Williams, T .J. C. The History of Washington County, Maryland, From the Earliest Settlements of the Present Time, Including A History of Hagerstown. Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1968.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Washington County
Williamsport and Vicinity Reminiscences: Early Part of the 19th Century to the Early Part of 1933, Inclusive. Williamsport, MD: Williamsport Chamber of Commerce, [1933].
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Washington County
Wroten, William H., Jr. Assateague. Salisbury, MD: Peninsula Press, 1970.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Native American, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Buckley, Geoffrey L. "The Environmental Transformation of an Appalachian Valley, 1850-1906." Geographical Review 88 (April 1998): 175-98.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Allegany County, Garrett County, Washington County
Buckley, Geoffrey Littlefield. Tapping the Big Vein: Coal Mining and Environmental Alterations in Maryland's Appalachian Region, 1789-1906. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1997.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Allegany County, Garrett County, Washington County
Cronon, William B. Changes in the Land, Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Notes: Cronon's work is about New England, but his ecological insights are invaluable to learning about the Chesapeake.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Gottfried, Michael D. "Fossil Pioneers: The Chesapeake Region and the Early History of Paleontology in North America." Bugeye Times 16 (Fall 1991): 1, 6-7.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Laerm, Joshua, William Mark Ford, Daniel C. Weinland, and Michael A. Menzel. "First Records of the Pygmy Shrew, Sorex hoyi (Insectivora: Soricidae), in Western Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 38 (January/June 1994): 23-27.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Allegany County, Garrett County, Washington County
Wroten, William H. Jr. Assateague. 1970; 2d edition, Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1972.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Copeland, David. "'Join or Die:' America's Newspapers in the French and Indian War." Journalism History 24 (Autumn 1998): 112-21.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Native American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Sands, Peter Vernon. 'A Horrid Banquet:' Cannibalism, Native Americans, and the Fictions of National Formation. Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1996.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Howard, James H. "The Nanticoke-Delaware Skeleton Dance." American Indian Quarterly 2 (Spring 1975): 1-13.
Categories: Music and Theater, Native American
Van Newkirk, Betty. "Theatres and Opera Houses in Western Maryland." Journal of the Alleghenies 27 (1991): 73-86.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Zuck, Victor. "Innovation and Restoration of the 3/14 Mighty Wurlitzer for the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown." Theatre Organ 36 (May 1994): 6-13.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Music and Theater, Washington County
Adams, Cheryl, and Art Emerson. Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives: A Guide to Resources in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Washington: Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Library of Congress, 1998.
Notes: Institutional level descriptions for nineteen Maryland libraries and archives holding significant religious collections. A tremendous level of detail is given. Subject headings are assigned to each institution. This guide is also available online at <a href="https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/">https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/religion/</a>.
Categories: Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Washington County
Bache, Ellyn. "Miss Mary and the Book Wagon." Maryland 21 (Winter 1988): 32-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Washington County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Washington County
Levinson, Nancy Smiler. "Takin' It to the Streets: The History of the Book Wagon." Library Journal 116 (May 1, 1991): 43-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Marcum, Deanna B. Good Books in a Country Home: The Public Library as Cultural Force in Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Marcum, Deanna Bowling. The Rural Public Library: Hagerstown, Maryland, 1878-1920. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Marcum, Deanna B. "The Rural Public Library in America at the Turn of the Century." Libraries and Culture 26 (Winter 1991): 87-99.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Washington County
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
"Old Clear Spring Library Remembered." Maryland Cracker Barrel (Dec. 1999/Jan 2000): 26, 28.
Notes: The small, volunteer run, Clear Spring Library developed in a building which had served as a community kitchen and a soldier's canteen. The library existed only between the two great wars. This brief history is compiled from the quotes of community members.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
"Revolutionary War Museums and Sites of Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Summer 2001): 25.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Science and Technology, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Frederick County, Harford County, Washington County