The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Fleming, Kevin. Ocean City, Maryland's Grand Old Resort. Annapolis, MD: Portfolio Press, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Twentieth Century, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Hobby, Susan Thornton. Columbia: A Celebration. Columbia, MD: Perry Publishing, 1995.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Howard County
Hopkins, Fred. "Opportunity, Accomplishment, and Betrayal: The Saga of William Claiborne's 17th-Century Settlement in the Upper Chesapeake." In Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Edited by John D. Broadwater, 2-5. Richmond, VA: Society for Historical Archaeology, 1991, 2-5.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Chesapeake Region
King, Julia A. "Rural Life in Mid-19th Century St. Mary's County: The Susquehanna Farm at Cedar Point." Chronicle of St. Mary's 38 (Spring 1990): 289-300.
Notes: A discussion of the nineteenth century rural character of St. Mary's County as seen through life at Susquehanna Farm. Two worlds inhabited the farm. The world of the land owner and his family and the world of the slaves who worked the farm.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth Bradner. Landscape as Myth: The Contextual Archaeology of an Annapolis Landscape. Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 1991.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Anne Arundel County
McGrain, John W. "Historical Aspects of Lake Roland." Maryland Historical Magazine 74 (September 1979): 253-73.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
May, Huguette D., and Anthea Smith. Finding the Charm in Charm City: Affectionate Views of Baltimore. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Notes: A modern photo documentary, using color Polaris Image Transfers of "charming spots" in Baltimore. These spots may not be considered so charming any place else in the world, but definitely display Baltimore's character. Through these image the authors show buildings, building details, and streetscapes. There is an accompanying text that gives a brief history of neighborhoods, buildings, and roads. A visual documentation of Baltimore in the 1990s.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
"The Mystery of Historic St. Mary's City." Southern Living 25 (August 1990): 18-19.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Noll, Eva Owings Davies. "The First Calvert County Fair." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 7-8.
Notes: Bug art.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Pogue, Dennis J. King's Reach and 17th-Century Plantation Life. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1990.
Notes: A discussion of the archeological digs at King's Reach and what the findings tell of life at the time, focussing on what can be learned of the plantation's physical layout.
Categories: Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Southern Maryland
Power, Garrett. "High Society: The Building Height Limitation on Baltimore's Mt. Vernon Place." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Fall 1984): 197-219.
Notes: In 1904 Maryland's first zoning law was passed. It disallowed the construction of any non-church building over 70 feet in height within one block of Baltimore's Washington Monument. This act, which was actually a move of selfish interest of the part of developers who were then marketing the Mount Vernon area to Baltimore's aristocracy, ended up being a major reason why twentieth centuries developers were thwarted and the area preserved in its nineteenth century landscape.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Risjord, Norman K. Builders of Annapolis: Enterprise and Politics in a Colonial Capital. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1998.
Notes: A history of colonial Annpolis presented through the lives of eleven prominent citizens. Represented are a printer, a governor, a doctor, and a cabinetmaker. Included are such well known Maryland surnames as Carroll, Paca, Dulany, Chase, and Shaw.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Medicine, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Stone, Gary Wheeler. "St. Maries Citty: Corporate Artifact." Maryland Archeology 26 (March and September 1990): 4-18.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "House Cove Point Lookout State Park." Chronicles of St. Mary's 26 (July 1978): 391-402.
Notes: This article compiled all available information on House Cove. It, therefore, serves as a good example of the wide variety of resources that can be found and utilized when researching a Maryland property.
Categories: Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Thomas, Joseph B., Jr., and Anthony D. Lindauer. "Seeking Herrington: Settlement in a Very Early Maryland Town." Maryland Archeology 34 (September 1998): 11-17.
Notes: Herrington, in southern Anne Arundel, was one of many very small towns in Maryland during the Colonial period. These towns generally had no municipal government. To research such communities scholars must rely on governmental records documenting landowners and residents. After Herrington's demise, shortly after 1700, the area remained predominantly agricultural. This resulted in its location remaining largely intact. Thus, it is a promising archeological site for research.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Ashby, Wallace L. Fossils of Calvert Cliffs. Solomons, MD: Calvert Marine Museum Press, 1979.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Cronon, William B. Changes in the Land, Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Notes: Cronon's work is about New England, but his ecological insights are invaluable to learning about the Chesapeake.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Gottfried, Michael D. "Fossil Pioneers: The Chesapeake Region and the Early History of Paleontology in North America." Bugeye Times 16 (Fall 1991): 1, 6-7.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Grant, John A. "The Flint Rocks." Glades Star 7 (March 1994): 373-75.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Garrett County
Kent, Bretton W. Making Dead Oysters Talk. 1988; rev. ed. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, Historic St. Mary's City Commission and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, 1992.
Notes: Kent's analyses of oysters from archaeological sites, tell a cautionary tale of overharvest which went unheeded for three centuries.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century
Kryder-Reid, E. "The Archaeology of Vision in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Gardens." Journal of Garden History 14 (January-March 1994): 42-54.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Environment, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Leone, Mark. "William Paca's Power Garden: The Art of Illusion in Colonial Annapolis." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 9-11.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Paca-Steele, Barbara, and St. Clair Wright. "The Mathematics of an Eighteenth-Century Wilderness Garden." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 6 (October-December 1986): 299-320.
Notes: Garden of William Paca House, Annapolis.
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "A Chesapeake Craftsman's Eighteenth Century Gardens." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 414-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region