The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.
Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Wood, Bartley A. "How Dunkirk Got Its Name." Calvert Historian 12 (Spring 1997): 68-70.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Nineteenth Century, Calvert 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
Bennion, V.R., D.F. Dougherty, and Robert M. Overbeck. The Water Resources of Calvert County. Bulletin 8. Baltimore: Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources, 1951.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Colbert, Ed, and Judy Colbert. "Battle Creek Cypress Swamp." Maryland 21(Summer 1989): 72-73.
Categories: Environment, Calvert County
Davis, Lynn. "Garden Roots." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1988): 154-67.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
DeGast, Robert. Western Wind, Eastern Shore: A Sailing Cruise Around the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
Notes: De Gast sails a small boat around the entire DelMarVa Peninsula, an interesting voyage with useful observations.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Eden, Paul G. "Calvert County Tornadoes." Calvert Historian 2 (October 1986): 37.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Calvert County
Eden, Paul G. "The Dates of Two Calvert County Tornadoes." Calvert Historian 2 (October 1987): 31-32.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Calvert County
Eden, Paul G. "An Informal Calvert County Weather Chronology (significant events 1979-1986)." Calvert Historian 3 (Spring 1988): 13-22.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Eshelman, Ralph E. "Micocene Land Mammals from Calvert Cliffs." Bugeye Times 11 (Spring 1986): 2-3.
Categories: Environment, Calvert County
Fales, John H. "Occurrence in Southern Maryland of the Carolina Satyr (Satyridae: Satyrinae)." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 5-7.
Categories: Environment, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore. Seventeen Maryland Rivers. New York: Holt Reinhart and Winston, 1944.
Notes: Footner writes mostly stories about history, but he does view Chesapeake river environments from a mid-1940s perspective.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Heckscher, Christopher M. "Distribution and Habitat Associations of the Eastern Mud Salamander, Pseudotriton montanus, on the Delmarva Peninsula." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 11-14.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Maryland Geological Survey. Calvert County. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1907.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Reveal, James L. "'Baltimora:' The Curious Tale of How a Flowering Plant from Mexico was Named for the Maryland City of Baltimore." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 1-6.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Baltimore City, Calvert County
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Steury, Brent W. Floristics Survey for Vascular Plants of Cove Point, Calvert County, Maryland. Lusby, MD: Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Calvert County
Steury, Brent W. "Survey for Endangered, Threatened and Rare Vascular Plants in Cove Point Marsh, Calvert County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 41 (July/December 1997): 89-96.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Calvert County
Stevenson, J. Court, and Karen Sundeberg. Historical Shoreline Configurations at Cove Point >From Original Patents and Later Shoreline Surveys. Lusby, MD: Cove Point Natural Heritage Trust, 1997.
Notes: Stevenson is largely concerned with historical documents, but he has embedded wonderful insights into forest, river and land-use practices. He publishes an account of a hike down the Chesapeake shore which graphically demonstrates how much the region has changed.
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Preston, Dickson J. Newspapers of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Wycherly, H. Alan. "H. L. Mencken vs. The Eastern Shore: December, 1931." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970): 381-390.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore