The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Lee, Jean B. The Price of Nationhood: The American Revolution in Charles County. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1994.
Notes: This intensive and insightful study of a single county offers insight into several large themes in Maryland history - "the American Revolution as a transforming, ongoing phenomenon, civilian's responses to the War for Independence, the tenor of the nation's formative years, and the nature of Chesapeake society." During this period Charles Country changed from prosperous economy, securely connected to the outside world through overseas trade, into a stagnant backwater, whose forward looking population searched for opportunity elsewhere. Unlike other areas of Maryland, where the Revolutionary years were tumultuous, there were few challenges to the status quo. Cut off from the empire, entrepreneurial whites left the county in search of wealth and opportunity, often as close as Washington, DC, and the population became overwhelmingly unfree.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Charles County
Berkey, Barry Robert, Velma Berkey, and Richard Erie Berkey. Pioneer Decoy Carvers: A Biography of Lemuel and Stephen Ward. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1977.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Griebel, Helen Bradley. "Carroll County Rug Hookers: Morphology of a Craft." Midwestern Folklore 17 (Spring 1991): 34-55.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Carroll County
Harte, Thomas J. "Social Origins of the Brandywine Population." Phylon 24 (1963): 369-378.
Notes: Harte seeks to establish the eighteenth-century origins of a distinctive mixed race "Brandywine" population in Charles County, though he fails to explain this social identity for the general reader. He points to Maryland laws against miscegenation and cross-racial sexual relationships as indirect evidence that both had occurred in the colony and cites Charles County records for violations of those laws. The article provides less direct support for his contention that Native American ancestry may also have been involved in the mixed race unions. Harte concludes that isolated family groupings in the eighteenth century served as the basis of the identifiable Brandywine population in the county in the nineteenth century.
Categories: African American, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. "Neighbor Washington." The Record 27 (February 1983): 1-4.
Notes: George Washington's association with Charles County.
Somerville, Romaine S. "Furniture at the Maryland Historical Society." Antiques 109 (May 1976): 970-89.
Walsh, Lorena S. "The Historian as Census Taker: Individual Reconstitution and the Reconstruction of Censuses for a Colonial Chesapeake County." William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, 38 (April 1981): 242-60.
Notes: Walsh uses methods drawn from community studies to reconstitute a census for adult white males in Charles County in 1705, based upon a provincial census and rent rolls from the period. She argues that such methods provide the researcher the opportunity to establish reasonable accurate profiles of Chesapeake society in the colonial period.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Charles County, Chesapeake Region
Walsh, Lorena S. "Staying Put or Getting Out: Findings for Charles County, Maryland, 1650-1720." William and Mary Quarterly (3d. series), 44 (January 1987): 89-103.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Charles County
Weidman, Gregory R. "The Furniture of Classical Maryland." Maryland Humanities (June 1993): 6-8.
Shomette, Donald G. Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1996.
Notes: Underwater archaeology.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Wearmouth, John M. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad: The Pope 's Creek Branch. Baltimore: Baltimore Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County
Edmunds, Lavinia. "Patron with Panache." Johns Hopkins Magazine 45 (February 1993): 47-51.
Notes: Alice Garrett.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Glickman, Gena Debra. A Study of the Role of Women in the Transformation of the Curriculum at the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of Mechanic Arts from 1825-1875. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1992.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
"History of Women in Cecil County." Bulletin of the Historical Society of Cecil County 49 (October 1979): [1-2].
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Medicine, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Eastern Shore
Hoopes, Roy. "Constance Comes Back." Mid-Atlantic Country 12 (June 1991): 44-47, 59-61.
Notes: Photographer Constance Stuart Larrabee.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Women, Twentieth Century
Miller, Fred S. "The Name Game." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (March 1995): 44-46.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Maritime, Women, Twentieth Century
Nabit, Charles J. "Looming Success." Maryland 28 (May/June 1996): 32-37, 62.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Women, Twentieth Century
Sarvella, Patricia, ed. Baltimore County Women. Towson, MD: Baltimore County Chapter, American Association of University Women, 1976.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County
Torchia, Robert Wilson. "Eliza Ridgely and the Ideal of American Womanhood." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Winter 1995): 404-23.
Notes: Argues that Thomas Sully's painting <em>Lady with a Harp: Eliza Ridgely</em> was a propaganda piece to counter the British stereotype of American women as "being unsophisticated, ignorant, and devoid of social graces" (406). This portrait of fifteen-year-old Ridgely shows grace, poise, feminity, and other traits (including instrumental music) associated with British of true womanhood.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County
Yohannan, Kohle, and Nancy Nolf. Claire McCardell: Redefining Modernism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition. Tokyo: Kokusai Art; Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1999.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Baltimore City, Other
Bongiovanni, Marie. "Understanding Wildlife." Southwest Art 29 (no. 4, 1999): 74-78.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Other
Camp, Sharon Lee. Modernization: Threat to Community Politics. Political Intermediaries in Charles County, Maryland. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1977.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Other
Clarke, Wendy Mitman. "Water of Art, Water of Life." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 50 (November 2000): 46-53.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Other
DuBois, June. "W. R. Leigh: Painter of Frontiers." American West 15 (1978): 32-47.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Fine and Decorative Arts, Twentieth Century, Other