The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Breen, T. H. Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Gibb, James G. "The Dorsey-Bibb Tobacco Flue: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Southern Maryland Agriculture." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 4-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Gibb, James G., and Matthew E. Croson. "The History of Helb Barn." Calvert Historian 10 (Fall 1995): 5-18.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Calvert County
McGrath, Sally V., and Patricia J. McGuire, eds. The Money Crop: Tobacco Culture in Calvert County, Maryland. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1992.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Calvert County
Middleton, Authur Pierce. Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of the Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era. Newport News, VA: Mariners Museum, 1953.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Eighteenth-Century Gardens of the Chesapeake." A special issue of the Journal of Garden History: An International Quarterly 9 (July-Sept. 1989): 103-59.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Land, Landlord, and Leaseholder: Estate Management and Tenant Fortunes in Southern Maryland, 1642-1820." Agricultural History 59 (July 1985): 373-396.
Notes: Based on the astonishing records of a Jesuit-owned estate in Charles County that lasted for 175 years, Walsh examined 233 tenants, and the effect of their short term vs. long term leases on resource waste or conservation. The story explains how owners used leasing as a means for plantation development and as an alternative to slave labor.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Alton, Cecil C. "The Life of John A. Alton: A Time of Change, 1841- 1893." Calvert Historian 4 (Spring 1989): 5-10.
Andrews, F. Ethel. Miss Ethel Remembers. Shady Side, MD: Shady Side Rural Heritage Society, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
Birch, Alison Wyrley. "The Lady Was a General." Maryland 12 (Autumn 1979): 7-11.
Notes: Anna Ella Carroll (1815-1893) was the daughter of a governor of Maryland whose own political career was an exception to the secondary role of most 19th century women in national affairs. In the 1850s and 1860s, Carroll wrote political tracts and advised political leaders in the Know Nothing and Republican parties. She also contributed to Union military strategy during the Civil War, corresponding with Abraham Lincoln and others in Washington.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Politics and Law, Women, Nineteenth Century
Briscoe, Mabel. "America's First Fossil Hunter." Calvert Historian 9 (Fall 1994): 70-78.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Broome, John P. Memoirs. Edited by Ailene W. Hutchins. Broomes Island, MD: Published by the author, 1977.
Butterfield, L. H. "Tending a Dragon-killer: Notes for the Biographer of Mrs. John Quincy Adams." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 118 (1974): 165-178.
Byron, Gilbert. Gilbert Byron's Chesapeake Seasons: A Cove Journal. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1987.
Notes: Poet and chronicler Gilbert Byron's columns were a popular feature in several Eastern Shore newspapers. This collection of observations and reminiscences culled from his newspaper writings are both biographical and lyrical in quality. Byron captures both an appreciation for a nostalgic past and an awareness of the social and economic changes occurring on his beloved shore.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
Charbeneau, Jim. Shouts and Whispers: Stories from the Southern Chesapeake Bay. White Stone, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1997.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Clague, Cristin D. "The Calverts: Migration in History." Calvert Historian 13 (Fall 1998): 19-24.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County
Clark, James Samuel. "'They Wore the Grey': Carlton B. Kelton." Calvert Historian 4 (Spring 1989): 1-4.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County, Civil War
Clark, James Samuel. "They Wore the Grey: Richard Covington Mackall." Calvert Historian 4 (Fall 1989): 3-6.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County, Civil War
Collins, Linda M. "Linden's Second Owner: Daniel Randall Magruder, Part I." Calvert County Historical Society, Inc., News and Notes (September 1997): 4-10.
Conant, Melvin A., ed. I Remember: Recollections of "Pepper" Langley, Growing Up in Solomons. Solomons, MD: Calvert Marine Museum, 1991.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Cordts, Jeanne M. "Douglas Love and the Molly Maguires." Journal of the Alleghenies 32 (1996): 97-105.
Coryell, Janet L. Neither Heroine Nor Fool: Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1986.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Politics and Law, Women, Nineteenth Century, Civil War, Eastern Shore
Cumberland, John H. "'Charles' Gift' by Hulbert Footner: A Review." Calvert Historian 4 (Fall 1989): 28-32.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Dash, Joan. Summoned to Jerusalem: The Life of Henrietta Szold. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
Notes: Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) was a social activist whose career began in Baltimore with the founding of a center and night school for recent immigrants from Russia similar to the settlement houses pioneered by Jane Addams. She later founded Hadassah, the Jewish women's organization, and became a leader in the Zionist movement.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Ethnic History, Religion, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Dubansky, Mindell. Guess Who Died?: Memories of Baltimore with Recipes. Rosendale, NY: Women's Studio Workshop, 1999.