The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Azzaretto, John F. A Study of Local Government Organization: Calvert County Maryland. College Park: Maryland Technical Advisory Service, Bureau of Governmental Research, University of Maryland, College Park, 1974.
Categories: Politics and Law, Calvert County
Goldstein, Louis L. "Thomas Johnson and the Constitution." Calvert Historian 2 (October 1986): 15-24.
Rose, Lou. "Calvert County Executions: A Sequel." Calvert Historian 3 (Spring 1988): 1-5.
Categories: Politics and Law, Calvert County
Rose, Lou. "Executions in Calvert County." Calvert Historian 2 (October 1987): 14-21.
Categories: Politics and Law, Calvert County
Rose, Lou. "Roger Brooke Taney of Calvert County: Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Guardian of the Constitution." Calvert Historian 3 (Fall 1988): 22-24.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Whisman, Anne F. "Who Were Calvert County's Commissioners from the First?" Calvert Historian 1 (April 1985): 1-7.
Categories: Politics and Law, Calvert County
Arner, Robert D. "The Blackness of Darkness: Satire, Romance and Ebenezer Cook's The SotWeed Factor." Tennessee Studies in Literature 21 (1976): 1-10.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Calvert County
Briscoe, Mabel, and Katharine Buys. "Point Patience." Calvert Historian 9 (Fall 1994): 79-92.
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
Dame, Hally Brent. "History of Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage 1930-1987." Calvert Historian 8 (Spring 1993): 48-54.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Gibb, James G., and Julia A. King. "Gender, Activity Areas, and Homelots in the 17th-Century Chesapeake Region." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 109-131.
Notes: Using archaeological records and spatial analysis from three Southern Maryland tobacco plantation sites, the authors provide an ethnographic look at life for seventeenth-century Maryland colonists in terms of gender and class roles. The article provides a brief overview of the economics of the Chesapeake region, the structure of living arrangements, and the gendered nature of tasks. The evidence suggests how gendered and class-based activities contributed to both household production and accrued wealth. The authors conclude that comparisons between the three sites provide the basis for understanding how household wealth was a direct corollary of the ability to secure a large work force and to develop a high degree of specialization.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Seventeenth Century, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Grierson, David Alan. "The Griersons of Calvert County, Maryland, 1767-2000." Calvert Historian 10 (Fall 1995): 55-61.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Calvert County
Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 1996.
Notes: Horton's title suggests his principal themes in examining Smith Island life: that the islands represent a distinctive way of life rooted in another time whose preservation into the future may literally be running out of time. An environmental columnist for the Baltimore <em>Sun</em> who lived on Smith Island in the late 1980s as an environmental educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Horton examines the water-related economy, traditionally based on oystering and crabbing, and the unique way of life that evolved in the relative isolation of the island communities. His book profiles the personalities of Smith Island, the work of men and women, the pervasive role of religion in island life, and social, economic, and environmental changes threatening the island's future.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Hutchins, Ailene W. "Ancient Graveyard at Gary's Chance." Calvert Historian 10 (Fall 1995): 27-36.
Reutter, Mark. Sparrows Point: Making Steel-the Rise and Ruin of America's Industrial Might. New York: Summit Books, 1988.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Calvert County
Rose, Lou. "Social Attitudes Toward Prohibition: A Calvert County Example." Calvert County Historical Society News 2 (January 1983): 1-2.
Notes: Rose argues for the value of using a literary work like Ebenezer Cooke's <em>The Sot Weed Factor</em> for insight into the social attitudes and mores of Maryland at the turn of the seventeenth century. However, the article restricts its attention primarily to Cooke's use of Calvert County for his satire on the legal and judicial systems, even though Cooke did not reside in the county during his Maryland sojourn.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Calvert County
Ross, Waters. "Baseball in Southern Calvert County in 1901-1902." Calvert Historian 6 (Spring and Fall 1991): 1-3.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Calvert County
Russo, Jean B. "The Constables' Lists: An Invaluable Resource." Maryland Historical Magazine 85 (Summer 1990): 164-70.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Taylor, Lorraine W. "Memories of the Walke Hotel, Owings Station." Calvert Historian 6 (Spring and Fall 1991): 16-19.
Gibb, James G. "Railroad Ghosts." Calvert Historian 11 (Spring 1996): 62-70.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Calvert County
Gibb, James G., and Paula F. Mask. "A Road Without Rails: The Baltimore and Drum Point Railroad, 1868-1891." Calvert Historian 5 (Fall 1990): 27-40.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Richardson, Hester Dorsey. "Mail Service in Provincial Times." Calvert Historian 8 (Fall 1993): 44-49.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Calvert County
Barton, Lindi R. "Feminism and Suffragism: The Women's Movements of the Mid-1800's." Calvert Historian 10 (Fall 1995): 37-53.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County
Briscoe, Mabel. "Where did Peggy Taylor Live as a Little Girl?" Calvert Historian 24 (Fall 1999): 42-43.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Challinor, Joan R. "'A Quarter Taint of Maryland Blood': An Inquiry into the Anglo/Maryland Background of Mrs. John Quincy Adams." Calvert Historian 10 (Spring 1995): 19-48.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Calvert County