The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Bishko, Lucretia Ramsey. "Lafayette and the Maryland Agricultural Society:1824-1832." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 45-67.
Boccaccio, Mary. "Maryland at the St. Louis World's Fair." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 347-354.
Notes: Boccaccio profiles the Maryland state exhibit at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, organized to commemorate the Louisiana Purchase one hundred years earlier. Drawing upon papers in the library of the University of Maryland College Park, she chronicles the efforts of William Amoss, who assembled the agricultural and horticultural products for a display which celebrated the state's western, southern, and central regions.
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
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
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
Shomette, Donald G. Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1996.
Notes: Underwater archaeology.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
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
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
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
Herndon, G. Melvin. "Hemp in Colonial Virginia." Agricultural History 37 (1963): 86-93.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Other
Jensen, Joan M. Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Other, Chesapeake Region
Keller, Allan. "The Catholics in Maryland." Early American Life 9 (1978): 18-21, 78-79.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Other
Kepler, Jon. "Estimates of the Volume of Direct Shipments of Tobacco and Sugar from the Chief English Plantations to European Markets, 1620-1669." Journal of European Economic History [Italy] 28 (no. 1, 1999): 115-36.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Seventeenth Century, Other