The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Tack, George E. "The Romantic Gwynn's Falls Valley." History Trails 26 (Autumn 1991-Winter 1991-92): 1-5.
Notes: A reprint of poet Tack's 1907 <em>Maryland Monthly Magazine</em> article describing the Valley, its businesses, its mills, its homes, etc., including the natural world. It ends with a poem by Folger McKinsey and one by Tack on the Valley.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City
Taylor, Marianne. My River Speaks: The History and Lore of the Magothy River. Arnold, MD: Bay Media, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Anne Arundel County
Trostel, Michael F. "Mondawmin: Baltimore's Lost County Estate." Bulletin of the Southern Garden History Society 8 (Summer 1991): 3-4.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Frederick County
Varner, Lynne K. "The Forgotten Town of Oriole." Maryland 23 (Summer 1991): 20-25.
Notes: Oriole was once a prosperous Methodist black community whose inhabitants were farmers and watermen. The few remaining residents of Oriole are hoping to revitalize the community through the preservation of St. James Church, once a cornerstone of the community.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Veitch, Fletcher. "Hurricane of 1933." Chronicles of St. Mary's 33 (August 1985): 285-288.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Environment, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Vojtech, Pat. "Wye Island." Maryland 21 (Summer 1989): 16-23.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Twentieth Century, Queen Anne's County, Eastern Shore
Warren, Marion E. Bringing Back the Bay: the Chesapeake in the photographs of Marion E. Warren and the voices of its people. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Notes: Modern photographs accompanied with oral history text. Of special interest is the "photographer's commentaries" on his work.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
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
Wennersten, Jack. "Behind the Wire: When the Afrika Korps Came to Somerset County." Maryland Magazine 14 (Autumn 1982): 6-7.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Military, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
White, Dan. Crosscurrents in Quiet Water: Portraits of the Chesapeake. Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Co., 1987.
Notes: A photo essay of the changing lives of the Eastern Shore's peoples focusing on watermen, boat builders, environmentalists, and chicken farmers. Special emphasis is placed on Smith Island and Crisfield. Photographs by Jon Naso and Marion Warren.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilson, Woodrow T. Quindocqua, Maryland: Indian Country. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1980.
Categories: County and Local History, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wilson, Woodrow T. Crisfield, Maryland, 1676-1976. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1977.
Notes: A scrapbook conglomeration of information on Crisfield, its peoples, and the nearby island communities and the town of Marion. Written for the American Bicentennial there is a great deal of emphasis placed on the town's celebration, including special projects and the time capsule. Heavy in genealogical information, it also includes brief histories of local businesses and photographs of major Somerset County historic houses.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Family History and Genealogy, Military, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.
Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Wolf, Bernard. Amazing Grace: Smith Island and the Chesapeake Watermen. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wroten, William H., Jr. Assateague. Salisbury, MD: Peninsula Press, 1970.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Native American, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Abbott, Collaner M. "Colonial Copper Mines." William and Mary Quarterly 27 (1970): 295-309.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Alford, John J. "The Role of Management in Chesapeake Oyster Production." Geographical Review 63 (1973): 44-54.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment
Alsop, George. A Character of the Province of Mary-land. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers, 1902.
Anft, Michael. "Fix the City: Down by the Old Mill Stream." Baltimore 90 (February 1997): 26-29, 104-5.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment
Anthony, James T. "Early Attempts at Wildlife Conservation in Maryland." Old Kent 1 (December 1985): 1-2.
Categories: Environment, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Arabas, Karen Borza. Fire and Vegetation Dynamics in the Eastern Serpentine Barrens. Ph.D. diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1997.
Categories: Agriculture, Environment
Arnold, Joseph L. The Baltimore Engineers and the Chesapeake Bay, 1961-1987. Baltimore: Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1988.