The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Buckley, Geoffrey L. "Converting Minerals into Merchandise: Landownership and Environmental Alteration in the George's Creek Valley of Western Maryland, 1789-1842." Historical Geography 26 (1998): 151-75.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Allegany County
Carr, Lois Green. "The Metropolis of Maryland': A Comment on Town Development Along the Tobacco Coast." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Summer 1974): 124-45.
Notes: Many towns in the Chesapeake area failed during the seventeenth century. Towns were not needed as commercial centers for the tobacco trade, the major economy of the area at that time. Carr uses St. Mary's City as an example of such a failure.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
"Cecil County." Maryland 26 (September/October 1994): [25-31, 33, 35-40, 41, 43, 45].
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
"Charles County By Water." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 36-37.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Charles County
"Charles County, Maryland: The Best Kept Secret This Side of the Potomac." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 34-35.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Charles County
"Charles County, MD..It's Wild and Waterful." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): [25-35].
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Charles County
Corddry, Mary U. City on the Sand: Ocean City, Maryland and the People Who Built It. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Crawford, Joan B. "A Heritage Preserved: The Creative Traditions of Western Maryland." Maryland 25 (Summer 1993): 38-44.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Garrett County, Washington County
Dowell, Susan Stiles. "The Water Gardens of Lilypons." Maryland 22 (Autumn 1989): 16-21.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Eden, Paul G., and Lou Rose. "Tornadoes in Calvert County--Sidelights on Calvert County Weather History." Calvert Historian 1 (April 1985): 18-24.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Calvert County
Erickson, Marie Anne. "Crossroads: Buckeystown." Frederick Magazine (November 1990): 11-2.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Music and Theater, Transportation and Communication, Frederick County
Erickson, Marie Anne. "Crossroads: Johnsville." Frederick Magazine (June 1992): 10-1.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Ethnic History, Transportation and Communication, Frederick County
Erickson, Marie Anne. "Crossroads: Yellow Springs." Frederick Magazine (December 1992): 12-13.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Environment, Music and Theater, Native American, Transportation and Communication, Frederick County
Erickson, Marie Anne. "Crossroads: Wolfsville." Frederick Magazine (December 1990): 11-12.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Ethnic History, Frederick County
Feldman, Gregory, and M. Stephen Ailstock. "Greenbury Point: The Interplay of History and Ecology." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Summer 1995): 216-20.
Notes: This author sees a strong connection between history and ecology. He argues that the same environmental factors which drew people to colonize Greenbury Point, the town known as Providence, and were responsible for its early success, also brought about its failure as an economic center.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Anne Arundel County
Harp, David W., and Tom Horton. Water's Way: Life Along the Chesapeake. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Notes: A photo essay on the environmental plight of the Eastern Shore, special attention is paid to the area's natural history and the life of the watermen.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Hoffman, Charles W. "The Indian Names of Frederick County." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc., Newsletter (May 1991): 2.
Categories: County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Native American, Before 1600 AD, Frederick 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
Kelbaugh, Jack. "Shipley's Choice: A Community Name with Historical Significance; Part I: The Shipley Clan." Anne Arundel County History Notes 20 (January 1989): 3-5.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Howard County
Kenah, Elizabeth F. "Good Times at Hard Bargain Farm." Maryland 13 (Summer 1980): 40-43.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Education, Environment, Women, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Love, Richard. "Brunswick's 'Blessed Curse': Surviving an Industrial Legacy." Maryland Historical Magazine 88 (Summer 1993): 133-49.
Notes: Brunswick was a community tied together and given its identify by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. When the railroad left in the late twentieth century the town lost its identify and underwent a drastic change. It experienced a period of crisis where the whole concept of community was called into question.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
McWilliams, Rita. "Great Elevations." Mid-Atlantic Country 13 (January 1992): 54-58, 63.
Notes: A tourism piece, but one which offers good basic information on a number of western Maryland's geological landmarks -- Crystal Grottoes Caverns, Sideling Hill Road Cut, and The Devil's Racecourse.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Twentieth Century, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Marks, Lillian Bayly. Reister's Desire: The Origin of Reisterstown, Maryland, Founded 1758, With a Genealogical History of the Reister Family and Sketches of Allied Families. N.p.: Published by the author, 1975.
Notes: A history of the early development of today's Reisterstown as documented primarily through land records. The largest portion of this work is dedicated to the genealogy of the Reister, and allied, families.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County
Meanley, Brooke. Blackwater: National Wildlife Refuge, Dorchester County, Maryland. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1978.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Molter, Nelson J. Severna Park, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: A History of the Area. 2 vols. Severna Park, MD: [N.p.] 1969, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County