The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Vansant, Thelma M., Elizabeth Westcott Bryan, and Frances S. Clendaniel. "The 50th Anniversary of the Historical Society of Kent County." Old Kent 2 (December 1986): 1-5.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Brown, C. Christopher. "Democracy's Incursion into the Eastern Shore: The 1870 Election in Chestertown." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 338-46.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Johnstone, Gene. "How a Kent County Senator Saved Andrew Johnson's Presidency." Old Kent 16 (Spring 1999): 3.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman, eds. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century Essays on Anglo-American Society & Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: A collection of papers presented at a scholarly conference in 1974 covering all aspects of Chesapeake life and politics in the 17th century. Many of these scholars - especially Lois Green Carr, Lorena S. Walsh, Darrett and Anita Rutman, David W. Jordan, and Russell R. Menard - would become the core of a new "Chesapeake School," whose hallmark was to breathe life and insight into mute statistical records. Their influence into our understanding of this period cannot be overstated.
Categories: General, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Bard, Harry. Maryland: State and Government, Its New Dynamics. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1974.
Notes: Divided into three sections - the first describing Maryland's people, history and geography, the second its government, and the third governmental services available to its citizens - this book provides a comprehensive description of the structure of Maryland government and its relationship to the people in the mid-1970s. Its major limitation is that some of the information may not be current because it was written almost three decades ago.
Categories: General, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century
Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Notes: Brugger's comprehensive social and cultural history of Maryland is the fruit of the decision by the Maryland Historical Society to commission a new state history in observance of Maryland's 350th anniversary. Brugger takes as his central theme that Maryland's distinction historically was that it represented a middle way-between North and State, slave and free, traditional and modern, rural/suburban/urban. The book considers the interaction of major political, social, and cultural developments. It includes a valuable bibliographical essay; a chronology of events; sets of maps, tables, and figures; and extensive illustrations.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Burris, Anne E. "Little-Known Resting Place of Some Ringgolds." Old Kent 15 (Spring 1998): 3.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Calcott, George. Maryland & America, 1940-1980. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Notes: Calcott examines recent Maryland history in its relation to major national trends over the period from World War II to 1980. Arguing that the state consists of four cultural areas-Baltimore City, Eastern and Southern Maryland, Western Maryland, and Suburban Maryland-Calcott considers the interaction of political, social, and cultural developments, both in terms of overall trends as well as in terms of their expression in the state's diverse regions. Major topics include post-World War II population growth and suburbanization, Cold War tensions, the Civil Rights era, political liberalism and the growth of the welfare functions of the state, educational and environmental developments, and the changing role of government.
Categories: General, African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Deringer, H. Hurtt. "Tolchester." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 11 (Sunshine 1987): 26-29.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County
Horne, Patricia E. The Organizational Network of Kent County, Maryland: 1650-1800. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1973.
"The Hyer-Sullivan Match." Kent Shoreman 9 (September 1974): 45-47.
Robson, Nancy Taylor. "The Ghosts of Kent County." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): 24-25, 27.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Byron, Gilbert. "The Old Chester River Bridge." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 16 (September 1986): 44-45.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Kent County
Grindle, Jenifer. "'My Dear Nannie': Society and the Role of Women in 19th Century Maryland and Washington D.C." Old Kent 9 (Summer 1992): 1, 3-4.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Nineteenth Century, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Keisman, Jennifer. "The Platers and Sotterley." Chronicles of St. Mary's 43 (Winter 1995): 81-91.
Categories: General, African American, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
"Mary Elizabeth Wethered's Diary." Old Kent 5 (Spring 1989): 1-2; 5 (Fall 1989): 1-2.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Kent County, Eastern Shore
Maryland Commission for Women. Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. Annapolis: The Commission, 1992.
Categories: General, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Maryland State Department of Education. Maryland Commission for Women. Album of Maryland Women, Vision and Action: A Women's History Display Kit. Baltimore: The Department, 1991.
Categories: General, Women, Twentieth Century
Sarvella, Patricia, ed. Who's Who of Maryland Women 1930-1976. N.p.: Maryland Division American Association of University Women, 1976.
Categories: General, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Twentieth Century
Bode, Carl. Maryland: A Bicentennial History. States and the Nation Series, edited by James Morton Smith. New York: Norton; Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1978.
Hollifield, William. "The Millennium and the Census 1900-2000: The Allure of the Numbers." History Trails 33 and 34 (Millennium Issue): 2-11.
Categories: General, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Other
Meyer, Eugene L. Maryland Lost and Found...Again. Baltimore: Woodholme House, 2000.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Other, Chesapeake Region
Naul, G. Marshall. "The Mason-Dixon Line and Kent County." Old Kent 17 (Spring 2000): 1-2.
Categories: Geography and Cartography, Kent County, Other, Eastern Shore