The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Lee, J. B. "Lessons in Humility: The Revolutionary Transformation of the Governing Elite of Charles County, Maryland." In The Transforming Hand of Revolution. Charlottesville: Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by the University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Categories: Politics and Law, Charles County
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
Newton-Matza, Mitchell. "Approved Security: Children and the Law in Federalist Era, Montgomery County, Maryland." Journal of Juvenile Law 18 (1997): 35-52.
Categories: Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Reeves, Mavis Mann. "Change and Fluidity: Intergovernmental Relations in Low Cost Housing, Montgomery County, Maryland." Publius 4 (Winter 1974): 5-44.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Skok, James E. "Participation in Decision Making: The Bureaucracy and the Community." Western Political Quarterly 27 (March 1974): 60-79.
Notes: Montgomery and Prince George's Counties.
Categories: Politics and Law, Montgomery County, Prince George's County
Sween, Jane C. "Maryland and Montgomery County in the Evolution of the United States Constitution." Montgomery County Story 30 (May 1987): 263-77.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Montgomery County
We the People. Montgomery County and the Constitution. Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Historical Society, 1988.
Categories: Politics and Law, Montgomery County
Andersen, Patricia Abelard. "The Almshouse, Later Called the 'County Home,' 1789-1948: A History of Poor Relief in Montgomery County." Montgomery County Story 41 (May 1998): 25-36.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Anderson, George M. "'Premature Matrimony': the Hasty Marriage of Bettie Anderson and Philemon Crabb Griffith." Maryland Historical Magazine 83 (Winter 1988): 369-77.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Canby, Tom. "Sandy Springers Remember Prohibition." Legacy 18 (Spring 1998): 4.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Canby, Tom. "Firefighters Expand Community Role." Legacy 18 (Summer 1998): 1, 5.
Cissel, Anne W. "The Families of a Denwood Farm through Two Centuries." The Montgomery County Story 27 (May 1984): 101-110.
Cochran, Sheila. "Mount Nebo and the Fletchall Family." Montgomery County Story 31 (May 1988): 11-22.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Montgomery County
Cook, Eleanor M. V. "Divorce in Montgomery County 1776-1894." Montgomery County Story 38 (August 1995): 345-56.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
Crook, Mary Charlotte. "The Glen Echo Amusement Park." Montgomery County Story 29 (August 1986): 223-33.
Ely, Carol. "The Northwest Hundred: Family and Society on the Maryland Frontier." Montgomery County Story 22 (November 1979): 1-11.
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
Hayes, Heather. "Booming population could prove a boon to Potomac Horse Center." Maryland Horse 61 (April/May 1995): 16-19.
Howard, Florence Bayly DeWitt. "Beall and Edmonstons Discovery to Wheaton Regional Park: 1736-1994." Montgomery County Story 37 (November 1994): 309-20.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Montgomery County
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. "Neighbor Washington." The Record 27 (February 1983): 1-4.
Notes: George Washington's association with Charles County.
Nesbitt, Martha. "The Celebrated Brooke Hounds." Legacy 18 (Summer 1998): 1, 4.
Rice, Mary. "The Lyceum." Legacy 16 (Summer 1996): 1, 4.
Sorenson, James Delmer. Folk to National Culture in Nineteenth-Century Montgomery County: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence from a Maryland Piedmont Plantation. Ph.D. diss., American University, 1987.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Montgomery County
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