The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
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.
Menard, Russell R. "Population, Economy, and Society in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 71- 92.
Notes: Menard examines some of the complex social and economic patterns underlying the rapid population growth of Maryland during the seventeenth century despite strong in-migration, high mortality, a shortage of females, and later marriage which often produced unstable family life. Tobacco exports rose dramatically, but the economy eventually suffered from over-dependence on a single crop. Though the colony was established with aristocratic goals, immigrants and their offspring initially created a social and economic pattern in which small planters predominated. However, by the century's end a new gentry class clearly had emerged in an order characterized by greater dependence on slave labor, a decline of indentured servitude, and heightened degrees of inequality.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
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
Walsh, Lorena S. "Feeding Eighteenth-Century Tidewater Town Folk, or, Whence the Beef?" Agricultural History 73 (Summer 1999): 267-80.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
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
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth Century Maryland." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series 34 (October 1977): 542-71.
Notes: Most women coming to Maryland in the seventeenth century were indentured servants between ages eighteen and twenty-five. Hard work in the tobacco fields, late marriage, and early death awaited them. However, for the woman who survived seasoning and their period of service, the sexual imbalance let them choose her husband and seize the opportunity to become a planter's wife. She risked childbirth, bore three to four children, and hoped one or two lived to adulthood. Widows remarried quickly, and complex families were the norm.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century
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
Hood, Margaret School. Margaret School Hood Diary, 1851-1861. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992.
Categories: Agriculture, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Lawson, Joanne Seale. "Remarkable Foundations: Rose Ishbel Greely, Landscape Architect." Washington History 10 (Spring 1998): 46-69.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Science and Technology, Women, Twentieth Century
"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
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "An Interview with Dr. Therese O'Malley." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 12-15.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century
Bergstrom, Peter V. "Leah and Rachel Revisited: Everyday Life in the Colonial Chesapeake." Reviews in American History 12 (1984): 176-181.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Other
Burton, Arthur G., and Richard W. Stephenson. "John Ballendine's Eighteenth-century Map of Virginia." Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 21 (1964): 172-178.
Categories: Agriculture, Geography and Cartography, Eighteenth Century, Other
Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "The Smith Farm Survives Mid-Century Agricultural Decline." Anne Arundel County History Notes 31 (January 2000): 3-4, 12-14.
Categories: Agriculture, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Other
Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. "The Smith Farm Survives Mid-Century Agricultural Decline-Conclusion." Anne Arundel County History Notes 31 (April 2000): 3-4, 8-10.
Categories: Agriculture, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Other
Daniels, Christine. "Gresham's Laws: Labor Management on an Early-eighteenth-century Chesapeake Plantation." Journal of Southern History 62 (1996): 205-238.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Eighteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region
Davis, Curtis Carroll. "'A National Property:' Richard Claiborne's Tobacco Treatise for Poland." William and Mary Quarterly 21 (1964): 93-117.
Categories: Agriculture, Eighteenth Century, Other
Dillon, Clarissa Flint. 'A Large, an Useful, and a Grateful Field': Eighteenth-Century Kitchen Gardens in Southeastern Pennsylvania, the Uses of the Plants, and Their Place in Women's Work. (Vol. 1-2) Ph.D. diss., Bryn Mawr College, 1986.
Categories: Agriculture, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Other
Dunn, Richard S. "Quantifying the History of the Chesapeake in the Eighteenth Century." Reviews in American History 15 (1987): 563-568.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region
Fromm, Roger W. "The Migration and Settlement of Pennsylvania Germans in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina and Their Effects on the Landscape." Pennsylvania Folklife 37 (1987): 33-42.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Ethnic History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Other
Fusonie, Alan E. "Sources for Farm Policy Research at the National Agricultural Library." Agricultural History 70 (1996): 449-454.
Categories: Agriculture, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Prince George's County, Other
Hayter, Earl W. "Livestock-fencing Conflicts in Rural America." Agricultural History 37 (1963): 10-20.
Categories: Agriculture, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Other