The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
From a Lighthouse Window: Recipes and Recollections from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. St. Michaels, MD: Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Talbot County
Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Calvert County, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Guardian Of Our Maryland Heritage. Easton, MD: Talbot County Free Library, 1968.
Notes: A series of very accessible essays describing the collections of the Talbot County's Maryland Room, along with a discussion of the Room's development. This publication is heavily illustrated and gives one an understanding of the nature of local history collections, either in public or private institutions.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Somerset County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Talbot County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
"Home Town Teams' Baseball Exhibit to Open in Easton, MD." Peninsula Pacemaker 26 (June 1997): 5.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Talbot County
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secret: Burgess Early Americana Museum." Maryland Humanities (March/April 1994): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Chesapeake Nay Maritime Museum." Maryland Humanities (March 1999): 27.
Categories: Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Talbot County
Nugent, Tom. "Super Models." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 27 (January 1998): 50-55.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Talbot County
Schofield, Clay. "An Annotated Bibliography of Folklore Material for the Eastern Shore." Free State Folklore 3 (Winter 1976-1977): 19-55.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Sheffield, Suzanne. "The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum." Peninsula Pacemaker 26 (August 1997): 14-16.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region
Starin, Mary Elizabeth. "The Callister Papers, Maryland Room, Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 15 (January 1974): 3-5.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Valliant, John R. "Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum: Our First Thirty Years." Weather Gauge 31 (Spring 1995): 4-9.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region
Wolf, Edwin, II. "The Library of Edward Lloyd IV of Wye House." Winterthur Portfolio 5 (1969): 87-121.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Talbot County
Ridgway, Whitman Hawley. A Social Analysis of Maryland Community Elites, 1827-1836: A Study of the Distribution of Power in Baltimore City, Frederick County and Talbot County. Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1973.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Frederick County, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Ridgway, Whitman H. Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840. A Comparative Analysis of Power in Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: Applying social science methodology to reconstruct patterns of decision making and their significance, this work examines the formation of elites in four political communities representing the diversity of the state (Baltimore City, and the counties of Frederick, St. Mary's, and Talbot) in two political eras (the Jeffersonian and the Jacksonian). In the more rural areas, such as St. Mary's and Talbot counties, decision makers overlapped with those who held public office and dominated community affairs, and little changed between the two periods. Where there was greater social and economic diversity, the patterns were considerably different. Elites became more specialized forcing decision makers to accommodate the demands of new leaders who represented a expanding popular political base. Members of the different elites (decisional, commercial, positional and traditional) are identified, along with individual socio-economic information, in the appendices.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Frederick County, St. Mary's County, Talbot County
Abribat, Beverly. "The Jefferson Island Club." Weather Gauge 24 (Fall 1988): 10-21; 25 (Fall 1989): 8-14.
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
Notes: Carr and Walsh make detailed use of probate records from seventeenth and eighteenth century Maryland to argue that the period in Chesapeake area history represented a shift from an early emphasis upon material necessities to an improved standard of living marked by "gentility." The authors contend that this change reached across class lines and helped to fuel, rather than check, the productive economy of the colony. The article includes extensive tables and graphs of evidence regarding consumer items for several Maryland and Virginia counties.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Dodds, Richard J. S. "For God and Country: The Hambleton Family of Maryland." Historical Society of Talbot County Newsletter (Fall 1988): 1-2.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Historical Society of Talbot County. The Art of Gardening: Maryland Landscapes and the American Garden Aesthetic, 1730-1930. Easton, MD: The Historical Society of Talbot County, 1985.
Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 1996.
Notes: Horton's title suggests his principal themes in examining Smith Island life: that the islands represent a distinctive way of life rooted in another time whose preservation into the future may literally be running out of time. An environmental columnist for the Baltimore <em>Sun</em> who lived on Smith Island in the late 1980s as an environmental educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Horton examines the water-related economy, traditionally based on oystering and crabbing, and the unique way of life that evolved in the relative isolation of the island communities. His book profiles the personalities of Smith Island, the work of men and women, the pervasive role of religion in island life, and social, economic, and environmental changes threatening the island's future.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Russo, Jean B. "The Wonderful Lady and the Fourth of July: Popular Culture in the Early National Period." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Summer 1995): 180-93.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Talbot County
Russo, Jean B. "The Constables' Lists: An Invaluable Resource." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Summer 1990): 164-70.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. "Waterfowl Frenzy: Easton's Annual Celebration of the Bird." Maryland 20 (Autumn 1987): 8-15.
McCloud, Melissa. "Tilghman Bridge, Tilghman Memories." Weather Gauge 34 (Fall 1998): 11-15.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Talbot County