The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Cassell, Frank A. Merchant Congressman in the Young Republic: Samuel Smith of Maryland. Madison: The University Press of Wisconsin, 1971.
Notes: Samuel Smith epitomizes the history of Baltimore City during the early republic. An officer during the Revolution and the commander of the forces that defended the city against the British attack in 1813, a member of an important merchant family whose economic connections helped him establish a political power base that stretched almost five decades, and sometimes brought him to the brink of economic ruin, he was a major political figure from George Washington's presidency through Andrew Jackson's. His career also reveals the elusiveness of political labels. As a Republican leader in the 1790s, he opposed the policies of the Federalists and supported those of Thomas Jefferson, but he and his brother Robert Smith had a falling out with James Madison, and by the 1830s he was courted by the more democratic Jacksonians who refused to anoint his kin as party leaders.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Hickey, Donald R. The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Notes: A comprehensive examination of the political background, military operations, and diplomatic closure of "Mr. Madison's War." It may have been forgotten in other areas, but for Maryland the War of 1812 was all too real. The Royal Navy roamed the Chesapeake with impunity, occupied Tangier Island, burned Frenchtown, attacked St. Michaels and Havre de Grace, sacked the nation's capitol after defeating the militia at Bladensburg, before meeting defeat after a combined sea-land attack on Baltimore City, which was immortalized in Francis Scott Key's "Star Spangled Banner." There is also a chapter on the infamous Baltimore riot of 1812.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, War of 1812
Johnstone, Gene. "How a Kent County Senator Saved Andrew Johnson's Presidency." Old Kent 16 (Spring 1999): 3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Garitee, Jerome R. The Republic's Private Navy: The American Privateering Business as Practiced Baltimore during the War of 1812. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, Published for Mystic Seaport, Inc., 1977.
Notes: The British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812 was motivated by a desire to punish the city for being a nest of republicans and privateers. This book traces in admirable detail the history of privateering - from the ships, outfitting, captains and crews, investors, their successes and failures, through the distribution of the prize money. While the pirates on the Spanish main may have been the dregs of the sea, Baltimore's privateers were underwritten by some of its leading mercantile and political leaders. The book includes useful appendices identifying the privateers, investors and proceeds.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, War of 1812
Burris, Anne E. "Little-Known Resting Place of Some Ringgolds." Old Kent 15 (Spring 1998): 3.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Deringer, H. Hurtt. "Tolchester." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1987): 26-29.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County
Horne, Patricia E. The Organizational Network of Kent County, Maryland: 1650-1800. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973.
"The Hyer-Sullivan Match." Kent Shoreman 9 (September 1974): 45-47.
Robson, Nancy Taylor. "The Ghosts of Kent County." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): 24-25, 27.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Byron, Gilbert. "The Old Chester River Bridge." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 16 (September 1986): 44-45.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Kent County
Grindle, Jenifer. "'My Dear Nannie': Society and the Role of Women in 19th Century Maryland and Washington D.C." Old Kent 9 (Summer 1992): 1, 3-4.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
"Mary Elizabeth Wethered's Diary." Old Kent 5 (Spring 1989): 1-2; 5 (Fall 1989): 1-2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Eaton, H. B. "Bladensburg." Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research [Great Britain] 55 (1977): 8-14.
Categories: Military, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Prince George's County, Other, War of 1812
George, Christopher T. Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2000.
Categories: Maritime, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region, War of 1812
Naul, G. Marshall. "The Mason-Dixon Line and Kent County." Old Kent 17 (Spring 2000): 1-2.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Kent County, Other, Eastern Shore
Shugg, Wallace. "'This Great Test of Man's Brutality': the Sulliven-Hyer Prizefight at Still Pond Heights, Maryland, in 1849." Maryland Historical Magazine 95 (Spring 2000): 46-63.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Kent County, Other, Eastern Shore
Williams, Glenn F. "The Bladensburg Races." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 12 (no. 1, 1999): 58-65.
Categories: Military, Other, War of 1812
George, Christopher T. "Myths, Misinformation, and the Truth: The Text on Maryland's War of 1812 Historical Markers." Maryland Humanities, (September 2001): 17-19.
Categories: General, Military, War of 1812
"Farewell to Five Landmarks." Old Kent, 19 (Spring 2002): 1, 3-4.
Dunn, Gil. "The Grave Site at Terrapin Park." Isle of Kent, (Spring 2002): 8.
Lysinger, John C. "Yes, Virginia, There is a Chesterville." Old Kent, 19 (Winter 2002): 1-2.
Categories: County and Local History, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Thompson, Bruce F. "Bungay Creek Wreck (18KE339), Kent County, Maryland." Maryland Archeology, 38 (March 2002): 27-37.
Categories: Archaeology, Maritime, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Pickett, Dwayne W., and Keith Heinrich. "Maryland's War of 1812 Battlefield Sites." Maryland Humanities, (September 2001): 10-13.
Categories: Archaeology, Military, War of 1812
Hepburn, Sewell S. "Memoirs of the Rev. Sewell S. Hepburn, PartII." Old Kent, 18 (Fall 2001): 1-2.
Lee, Byron A. "Anne Arundel's Commodore Isaac Mayo Duringthe War of 1812." Anne Arundel County History Notes, 32 (January 2001): 3-4, 13-15.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, War of 1812