The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Ridgway, Whitman H. Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840. A Comparative Analysis of Power in Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: Applying social science methodology to reconstruct patterns of decision making and their significance, this work examines the formation of elites in four political communities representing the diversity of the state (Baltimore City, and the counties of Frederick, St. Mary's, and Talbot) in two political eras (the Jeffersonian and the Jacksonian). In the more rural areas, such as St. Mary's and Talbot counties, decision makers overlapped with those who held public office and dominated community affairs, and little changed between the two periods. Where there was greater social and economic diversity, the patterns were considerably different. Elites became more specialized forcing decision makers to accommodate the demands of new leaders who represented a expanding popular political base. Members of the different elites (decisional, commercial, positional and traditional) are identified, along with individual socio-economic information, in the appendices.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Frederick County, St. Mary's County, Talbot County
Abribat, Beverly. "The Jefferson Island Club." Weather Gauge 24 (Fall 1988): 10-21; 25 (Fall 1989): 8-14.
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.
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
Dodds, Richard J. S. "For God and Country: The Hambleton Family of Maryland." Historical Society of Talbot County Newsletter (Fall 1988): 1-2.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
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
Historical Society of Talbot County. The Art of Gardening: Maryland Landscapes and the American Garden Aesthetic, 1730-1930. Easton, MD: The Historical Society of Talbot County, 1985.
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 Wonderful Lady and the Fourth of July: Popular Culture in the Early National Period." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Summer 1995): 180-93.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Talbot County
Taylor, Lorraine W. "Memories of the Walke Hotel, Owings Station." Calvert Historian 6 (Spring and Fall 1991): 16-19.
Wennersten, John R. "Waterfowl Frenzy: Easton's Annual Celebration of the Bird." Maryland 20 (Autumn 1987): 8-15.
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
McCloud, Melissa. "Tilghman Bridge, Tilghman Memories." Weather Gauge 34 (Fall 1998): 11-15.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Talbot 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
Bradshaw, Alice. "Waterman's Wife." Annapolitan 7 (March 1993): 28-32, 34-35, 49.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Maritime, Women, Twentieth Century, Talbot County, Chesapeake Region
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
Ewalt, Claire S. "Caroline Duke Little Kerney: Her Life." Calvert Historian 4 (Spring 1989): 21-31.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Medicine, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Calvert County