The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Tracey, Grace L., and John P. Dern. Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987.
Notes: A history of that portion of Prince George's County that in 1748 became Frederick County as told through the stories of the original land patents and their owners. The appendix includes many handy lists including a list of 1733-1734 inhabitants, early German Settlers, and Frederick County Muster Rolls, ca. 1757.
Categories: County and Local History, Ethnic History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County, Prince George's County
Truitt, Charles J. Historic Salisbury Updated 1662-1982. Salisbury, MD: Historical Books, Inc., 1982.
Notes: As the author states, this is an "encyclopedic history", almost every conceivable subject is addressed including health care facilities, agribusiness, sports, the Delmarva separatist movements, the slave trade, fires, and so on. It is especially useful in the documentation it presents of the varied twentieth century society.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Transportation and Communication, Wicomico County
Virta, Alan. "'Only Twenty Minutes Ride from Washington.'" News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society , 14 (June 1986): 25-28.
Notes: Huntington.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Walker, J. "Clarke Place." Frederick Magazine (May 1992): 11.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Frederick County
Warfield, Sandra K. A Newspaper History of Life in Washington County: 1820-1835, the Coming of the C & O Canal. Hagerstown, MD: Washington County Free Library, 1990.
Warren, Morris. "Help Me Find Birmingham Manor." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 19 (April 1991): 18-19.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Prince George's County
Weeks, Christopher. "Bouncing Along the Post Road: Eighteenth Century Harford County as Seen by Travelers." Harford Historical Bulletin 57 (Summer 1993): 74-127.
Notes: Annotated excerpts from ten contemporary descriptions of traveling along the post road. The authors include such well known Colonial figures as Dr. Alexander Hamilton, Charles Willson Peale, and Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Military, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Harford County, Montgomery County
White, Roger. "Admiral: One of Anne Arundel's Vanished Villages." Anne Arundel County History Notes 24 (July 1993): 5-6, 9-11.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "Odenton's Early 'Suburbs': Mayfield and the Rose's Store Area." Anne Arundel County History Notes 20 (January 1989): 1-3.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "Sappington: One of Anne Arundel's Vanished Villages." Anne Arundel County History Notes 22 (April 1991): 13-14.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Willis, Bob. "Harbor to Shore-And Back Again." Maryland 27 (July/August 1995): 79, 81.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Willman, W. G. "Pipe Creek." Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc. Newsletter (September 1987): 3.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Military, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Frederick County
Cameron, Mark. "Monuments of Urbanity: The Development of Baltimore's Residential Squares." Maryland Humanities (Winter 1998): 5.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Environment, Ethnic History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Women
Capper, John, Garrett Power, and Frank Shivers. Chesapeake Waters: Pollution, Public Health and Public Opinion, 1602-1972. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1983.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Environment, Ethnic History, Medicine, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Selckmann, August. "The Susquehanna: Mother of the Chesapeake." Maryland 23 (Autumn 1990): 6-17.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Cecil County, Harford County
Sharrer, G. Terry. "The Patuxent: Maryland's Heartland River." Maryland 21 (Spring 1989): 6-23.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Anne Arundel County, Charles County
Stone, William T., Fessenden Blanchard, and Anne M. Hayes. A Cruising Guide to the Chesapeake including the passages from the Long Island Sound along the New Jersey coast and Island Waterway. 1968; reprint, New York: Putnam, 1989.
Notes: This guide gives detailed descriptions of the navigable portions for each of Maryland's rivers and creeks.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Walsh, James. "Waterways of Prince George's County Then and Now." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 25 (February 1997): 9.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Prince George's County
Walsh, James. "Waterways of Prince George's County." News and Notes of the Prince George's County Historical Society, 27 (November/December 1999): 9.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Prince George's County
Bernard, Kenneth A. "Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War." Lincoln Herald 66 (1964): 115-134.
Categories: African American, Military, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Bache, Ellyn. "Miss Mary and the Book Wagon." Maryland 21 (Winter 1988): 32-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Bowers, Deborah. "On the Road Again: The Bookmobile in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 28-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Hartwig, D. Scott. The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1990.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Nineteenth Century, Civil War
Live Wire Staff. "BSM: 25 Years and Still Going." Live Wire 22 (April-June 1991): 1, 3-7.
Notes: Baltimore Streetcar Museum.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Maryland Statistical Abstract. Annapolis: Department of Economic Development, 1967-.
Notes: This source provides data on nearly every aspect of Maryland and the live's of its citizens.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century