The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Raley, J. Frank, Jr. "The Senate Desk 1776 to 1966." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Fall 1992): 145-48.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
"Recognizing Maryland's Role in 'The First Freedom.'" A Briefe Relation 21 (Spring 1999): 1, 8.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Roberts, David. "St. Mary's Elects the President, 1840-1980." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (September 1980): 225-29.
Categories: Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Social Studies Seminar, Chopticon High School, Morganza, St. Mary's County, Maryland. "St. Mary's County, Maryland, Cemetery Indexes." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 21 (January 1980): 4-5.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
Social Studies Seminar, Chopticon High School, Morganza, St. Mary's County, Maryland. "St. Mary's County, Maryland, Cemetery Indexes." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 21 (April 1980): 36-37.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
Social Studies Seminar, Chopticon High School, Morganza, St. Mary's County, Maryland. "St. Mary's County, Maryland, Cemetery Indexes." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 21 (July 1980): 68-69.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
Social Studies Seminar, Chopticon High School, Morganza, St. Mary's County, Maryland. "St. Mary's County, Maryland, Cemetery Indexes." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 21 (October 1980): 100-01.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
Stevens, L. Tomlin. "Maryland and the Adoption of the Federal Constitution." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Fall 1987): 49-54.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Stewart, Oliver D., Jr. "350 Years of Service: St. Mary's County Sheriff's Department." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 77.
Categories: Politics and Law, St. Mary's County
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
Carr, Lois Green. "Sources of Political Stability and Upheaval in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 44-70.
Notes: Challenging the prevailing notion that seventeenth century Maryland politics were inherently chaotic, Carr argues that community networks were being formed through which information was exchanged and community oversight imposed, and that County courts emerged as <em>de facto</em> local governments. Local men, who may have been planters or former indentured servants, were appointed as justices. During the hiatus following the Revolution of 1689 local government continued to operate. After discussing the various political crises before and after 1689, Carr concludes that the underlying cause of Maryland's political instability was a failure of leadership of the men at the top of Maryland society.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Ridgway, Whitman H. Community Leadership in Maryland, 1790-1840. A Comparative Analysis of Power in Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Notes: Applying social science methodology to reconstruct patterns of decision making and their significance, this work examines the formation of elites in four political communities representing the diversity of the state (Baltimore City, and the counties of Frederick, St. Mary's, and Talbot) in two political eras (the Jeffersonian and the Jacksonian). In the more rural areas, such as St. Mary's and Talbot counties, decision makers overlapped with those who held public office and dominated community affairs, and little changed between the two periods. Where there was greater social and economic diversity, the patterns were considerably different. Elites became more specialized forcing decision makers to accommodate the demands of new leaders who represented a expanding popular political base. Members of the different elites (decisional, commercial, positional and traditional) are identified, along with individual socio-economic information, in the appendices.
Categories: Politics and Law, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City, Frederick County, St. Mary's County, Talbot County
Beitzell, Edwin W., ed. "Diary of Dr. Joseph L. McWilliams, 1868-1875." Chronicles of St. Mary's 23 (March 1975): 17-24; (May 1975): 37-44; (June 1975): 45-50.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Bennett, Joyce. "Steeped in English Tradition." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Winter 1999): 412-13, 419.
Berger, Michael L. "Farmers, Flivvers, and Family Life: 1900-1929." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (July 1984): 165-175.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
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
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
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "Changing Life Styles in Colonial St. Mary's County." Working Papers from the Regional Economic History Research Center 1 (no. 3, 1978): 73-118.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "Inventories and the Analysis of Wealth and Consumption Patterns in St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1658-1777." Historical Methods 13 (Spring 1980): 81-104.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
Notes: Carr and Walsh make detailed use of probate records from seventeenth and eighteenth century Maryland to argue that the period in Chesapeake area history represented a shift from an early emphasis upon material necessities to an improved standard of living marked by "gentility." The authors contend that this change reached across class lines and helped to fuel, rather than check, the productive economy of the colony. The article includes extensive tables and graphs of evidence regarding consumer items for several Maryland and Virginia counties.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Costello, M. Starr. "The Role of Wealth in Widowhood and Remarriage Patterns in Seventeenth Century Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 28 (July 1980): 197-216.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
"A Dialect Study of St. Mary's County, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (November 1982): 497-504; (December 1982): 507-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, St. Mary's County
Dyson, Roy. "St. Mary's County and Maryland's 350th Anniversary." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (February 1984): 125-128.
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Present at the 'Creation': The Chesapeake World that Greeted the Maryland Colonists." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 7-20.
Notes: Fausz examines relations between Europeans (especially the English of Maryland and Virginia) and Native Americans of the Chesapeake region in the decade immediately preceding the settlement of the Maryland colony at St. Mary's in 1634. He argues that the interaction between Englishmen and Native Americans provided the basis for tobacco cultivation and the beaver fur trade. Both paved the way for successful adaption of the early English settlers to new American conditions.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region