The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Historical Society of Talbot County. The Art of Gardening: Maryland Landscapes and the American Garden Aesthetic, 1730-1930. Easton, MD: The Historical Society of Talbot County, 1985.
Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 1996.
Notes: Horton's title suggests his principal themes in examining Smith Island life: that the islands represent a distinctive way of life rooted in another time whose preservation into the future may literally be running out of time. An environmental columnist for the Baltimore <em>Sun</em> who lived on Smith Island in the late 1980s as an environmental educator with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Horton examines the water-related economy, traditionally based on oystering and crabbing, and the unique way of life that evolved in the relative isolation of the island communities. His book profiles the personalities of Smith Island, the work of men and women, the pervasive role of religion in island life, and social, economic, and environmental changes threatening the island's future.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Lesher, Pete. "Eastern Shore Summers: Waterfront Guest Houses and Hotels in the Age of Steam." Weather Gauge 35 (Fall 1999): 18-23.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Mills, Eric. Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Russo, Jean B. "The Wonderful Lady and the Fourth of July: Popular Culture in the Early National Period." Maryland Historical Magazine 90 (Summer 1995): 180-93.
Categories: Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Talbot County
Valliant, Joseph N., Jr. "Memories of Terrapin'in." Weather Gauge 35 (Spring 1999): 12-15, 25.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Warner, William W. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1976.
Notes: Naturalist writer Warner examines the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab-the "beautiful swimmer"--and the watermen whose distinctive economy and life-style have been based upon it. Warner uses the cycle of the seasons to trace the complex relationship between natural environment and human community, with attention both to the social patterns and economics of water-related societies. Traditional watermen communities of the Chesapeake Bay region receiving considerable attention are Deal Island, Smith Island, Kent Island, and Crisfield in Maryland, and Tangier Island in Virginia.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Wennersten, John R. "Waterfowl Frenzy: Easton's Annual Celebration of the Bird." Maryland 20 (Autumn 1987): 8-15.
Brewington, M. V. Chesapeake Bay Log Canoes and Bugeyes. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1963.
Brown, Alexander Crosby. The Old Bay Line, 1840-1940. New York: Bonanza, 1940.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Circle. Cambridge, MD: Cornell, 1965.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H. Chesapeake Sailing Craft. Cambridge, MD: Tidewater, 1975.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H. This Was Chesapeake Bay. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1963.
Categories: Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Burgess, Robert H., and H. Graham Wood. Steamboats Out of Baltimore. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1965.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication
Carmer, Carl. The Susquehanna. New York: Rinehart, 1955.
Notes: One of the prestigious "Rivers of America" series, and for Marylanders a book-end volume to Frederick Gutheim's <em>The Potomac</em>. This is popular history at its best: powerfully-written, anecdotal--and what anecdotes! The story of Thomas Cresap is alone worth checking the book out of the library. Covers the downriver ark traffic and the attempts of steamboats to conquer the rocky and unruly Susquehanna.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication
Catton, William H. "How Rails Saved a Seaport." American Heritage 8 (1957): 26-31, 93-95.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Catton, William H. John W. Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio: A Study in Seaport and Railroad Competition, 1820-1874. Ph.D. diss., Northwestern University, 1959.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Chapelle, Howard I. The Baltimore Clipper. Hatboro, PA: Tradition Press, 1965.
Notes: First published in 1930, this is a classic treatment, with drawings and illustrations, of a famous ship developed on the Chesapeake Bay. The author, one of America's most distinguished naval historians, lived for many years on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
Cudahy, Brian J. Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B. B. Wills. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Dohan, Mary Helen. Mr. Roosevelt's Steamboat; the First Steamboat to Travel the Mississippi. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1981.
Flexner, James Thomas. Steamboats Come True. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Notes: Did James Rumsey <em>really</em> invent the steamboat with his famous voyage in the Potomac River off Shepherdstown, Virginia on December 3, 1787? No. This somewhat disorganized but invigorating rendition of the race to be the steamboat's inventor sets things straight.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Footner, Geoffrey M. Tidewater Triumph: The Development and Worldwide Success of the Chesapeake Bay Pilot Schooner. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Footner, Hulbert. Rivers of the Eastern Shore: Seventeen Maryland Rivers. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944 (1979).
Notes: Another of the famed "Rivers of America" series and a Maryland classic, illustrated by Baltimore artist Aaron Sopher.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Geography and Cartography, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Gray, Ralph D. The National Waterway, a History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1769 -1965. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1967 (1985).
Notes: Students of Maryland transportation and maritime development probably would agree that the canal is the most important per mile ever dug in the United States. Experts depend on this volume; lovers of lore may wish to add it to their libraries, said a Maryland Historical Magazine reviewer (84:401, Winter 1989).
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Gutheim, Frederick. The Potomac. Rivers of America Series. New York: Rinehart, 1949.
Notes: The river itself didn't amount to much as an avenue of commerce: shipping found it torturously winding below Washington, D. C. and almost impassable above. The Potomac's real function was as a route to the west used by Maryland's legendary transportation facilities: the National Road, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. In another of the Rivers of America series, Gutheim tells the story of the great and historic river as well as it can be told.