The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Colbert, Judy. Country Towns of Maryland and Delaware. Oaks, PA: Country Roads Press, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Cecil County, Carroll County, Calvert County, Frederick County, Harford County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Washington County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Life in Montgomery County at the Turn of the Last Century." Montgomery County Story 42 (November 1999): 101-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Georgetown: Jewel of Montgomery County-Part II." Montgomery County Story 42 (February 1999): 61-76.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Women, Eighteenth Century, Montgomery County
Copley, Anne. "Comings and Goings: Migration in Cecil County." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 79 (Autumn 1998): 1, 11.
Categories: County and Local History, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Creveling, Donald K. "Mount Calvert: 17th-Century Port of Charles Town." Friends of Preservation Newsletter 15 (Winter 1997-98): 3.
Categories: County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Cecil County
Dilts, James D. "Railroad Towns in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring/Summer 1995): 4-7.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Frederick County, Montgomery County
Dixon, Michael L. "Warwick: A Municipality No More." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 74 (Autumn 1996): 7.
Categories: County and Local History, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Dixon, Michael L. "Head of Elk and How it Grew." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 73 (Spring 1996): 1, 4-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Earle, Swepson. The Chesapeake Bay Country. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Company, 1923.
Notes: Divided into three regions -- southeastern Maryland, Upper Bay, and the Eastern Shore, this work includes a history for each, written by five noted authors, followed by a description of the counties in each, along with places of interest and the people of these places. The histories of the areas places special emphasis on major houses and genealogy of the owners. It is nicely illustrated with contemporary photographs, which nearly 80 years later serve as historic images. There are four pages of interesting photos of African Americans.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, 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
Erickson, Marie Anne. "Crossroads: Middletown." Frederick Magazine (May 1992): 12-14.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Medicine, Religion, Frederick County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Historic Banner Front Pages of the Cumberland Daily News, Cumberland News, and Cumberland Evening Times Vol. I: The Twentieth Century. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
Feldstein, Albert L. Feldstein's Historic Newspapers of Allegany County Vol. II-The 19th and 20th C. LaVale, MD: Published by the author, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Allegany County
"'Flowery Vale' A History of Accident, MD." Glades Star 6 (September 1986): 46-47.
Notes: Book review.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Garrett County
Garrett, Jerre. Muffled Drums and Mustard Spoons: Cecil County, Maryland, 1860-1865. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing, 1996.
Notes: As the author clearly states this is "a collection of all the things that grabbed my attention" as she researched Cecil during the Civil War years. It is largely arranged by year. Included in the appendix are 18 pages of Civil War letters.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County
Getty, Joseph M., ed. The Carroll Record: Histories of Northwestern Carroll County Communities. Westminster, MD: Historical Society of Carroll County, 1994.
Notes: Reprints of nineteenth century newspaper articles, from the <em>Carroll Record</em>, on the histories of fourteen of Carroll's communities, written by various authors. Includes an "historical supplement" which provides information on late twentieth century organizations and businesses, along with some family histories.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Carroll County
Jackson, A. Raymond. A. Raymond Jackson Recalls: Perryville, Maryland (1900-1913). Elkton, MD: Historical Society of Cecil County, 1994.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Cecil County
Johnston, George. History of Cecil County, Maryland. Elkton: Published by the author. 1881.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County
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
McGuckian, Eileen S. F. Scott Fitzgerald's Rockville: A Guide to Rockville, Maryland, in the 1920s. Rockville, MD: Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Manchester, Andi. "Chesapeake City." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (January 1994): 25-29.
Categories: County and Local History, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
"The Maryland Directory: A Look at Cecil's Communities in 1882." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 62 (September 1992): 9-11; 64 (April 1993): 8-9.
Categories: County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
"The Maryland Directory: A Look at Cecil's Communities in 1882." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 66 (December 1993): 4-5; 67 (April 1994): 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Nineteenth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Mellin, Jack. "Green Haven Advertising Brochures." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (January 1991): 9; (April 1991): 9-10.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Nast, Leonara Heilig, Laurence N. Krause, and R. C. Monk, eds. Baltimore. A Living Renaissance. Baltimore: Historic Baltimore Society, Inc., 1982.
Notes: An eclectic mix of over eighty essays, authored by a broad spectrum of individuals, on topics that illustrate the renaissance that Baltimore experienced during the 1960s and 1970s. Organized under such broad topics as "Baltimore Builds","Social Perspective","The Arts", and "What Makes Baltimore Baltimore" the broad range of subjects covered include Baltimore night life, public housing, television and radio, football, aging services, and influential political and community figures. Includes a brief chronology of the City's redevelopment, 1937-1981.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Ethnic History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Nurnberger, Ralph D. "The Great Baltimore Deluge of 1817." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 405-8.
Notes: Calamities are popular topics for local historians. This discussion of a major flood of the Jones Falls, in Old Town Baltimore, includes an eyewitness account.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City