The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Sword, Gerald J. "James Thomas Notley Maddox, M.D.--Doctor, Churchman, and Farmer." Chronicles of St. Mary's 34 (August 1986): 389-93.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Medicine, Religion, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "Stanley J. Morrow, A Civil War Photographer at Point Lookout, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 31 (December 1983): 105-111.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County, Civil War
Waikart, Jean Tolson. "Remembrances of Growing Up on the Potomac." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (August 1984): 177-184.
Wilson, Mary Velean Bond. "Darling Donna." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Fall 1992): 148-53.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Zseleczky, James Waters. "Anne Mynne of Hertingfordbury, Wife of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore (1579-1622)." Chronicles of St. Mary's 22 (September 1974): 397-99.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Women, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Barber, Mary Combs. "Mathias de Sousa Memorial." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 80.
Categories: African American, St. Mary's County
Beitzell, Edwin W. "Warren Logan, Educator from Milestown to Tuskegee." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (September 1984): 185-188.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Education, St. Mary's County
Davidson, Thomas E. "Free Blacks in Old Somerset County, 1745-1755." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Summer 1985): 151-156.
Notes: County court records of Somerset County, Maryland during the eighteenth century are particularly complete, allowing for detailed studies of the county's population during that period. The author contributes to the scholarship which, up until 1985, focused primarily on the origins of black culture on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the seventeenth century. The author also adds to the growing scholarship on free blacks in this region, which tended to also focus on the seventeenth century. In addition to examining court records to determine the numbers of free Negroes and mulattoes, the author also attempts to determine how members of these populations obtained their free status, that is, through manumission or the as the result of being children of free mothers (free-born).
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Davidson, Thomas E. "Jacob Armstrong: Pioneer Black Capitalist on Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 4 (1986): 4-6.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Klein, Mary O. "'We Shall Be Accountable to God:' Some Inquiries into the Position of Blacks in Somerset Parish, Maryland, 1692-1865." Maryland Historical Magazine 87 (Winter 1992): 399-406.
Notes: The author examines the conversion of free blacks and slaves in Somerset Parish. While a 1664 Maryland law stated that baptism had no effect on the status of a slave, the Anglican church worked towards conversion of the enslaved. However, Christian education and baptism varied depending on individual slaveowners. In some cases, the enslaved themselves refused to be baptized. Evidence of African religious practices remained alongside the practice of Christianity.
Categories: African American, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
McDaniel, George William. Preserving the People's History: Traditional Black Material Culture in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Southern Maryland. Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1979.
Categories: African American, Archaeology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Marks, Bayly E. "Skilled Blacks in Antebellum St. Mary's County, Maryland." Journal of Southern History 53 (November 1987): 537-64.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
"Selected Readings on Afro-Americans and Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 5 (Fall/Winter 1985): 6-7.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. "A Cycle of Race Relations on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Somerset County, 1850-1917." Maryland Historical Magazine 80 (Winter 1985): 377-382.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R., and Ruth Ellen Wennersten. "Separate and Unequal: The Evolution of a Black Land Grant College in Maryland, 1890-1930." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Spring 1977): 110-17.
Notes: The authors examine how Princess Anne Academy on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland developed after 1890 as a state and federally supported land grant school. Like other land grant schools, Princess Anne Academy was neglected by state and federal agencies. This academy was an example of separate education provided for blacks which demonstrated how land grant schools were indeed separate ad unequal.
Categories: African American, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore
Wilson, Emily Wanda. The Public Education of Negroes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1948.
Categories: African American, Education, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Fenwick, LaVerne M. "Cherryfields on the St. Mary's River, St. Mary's County." Chronicles of St. Mary's 37 (Summer 1989): 230-33.
Inventory of Historic Sites in Calvert County, Charles County, and St. Mary's County. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, 1980.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Jackson, Faith. "Vanishing Assets." Chronicles of St. Mary's 33 (September 1985): 293-299.
Notes: Scotland Beach Hotel.
"Restoration Plan is Established for Maryland's Sotterley Plantation." Historic Preservation News 34 (October/November 1994): 37, 43.
Richardson, Julia H. "Restoration of the Plains Plantation Family and Slave Cemeteries." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Summer 1992): 129-33.
Somerset Images: Three Centuries of Building Traditions. Somerset County, MD: Somerset County Historical Trust, 1984.
Sotterley Mansion, St. Mary's County, Maryland; Notes on Its History and Architecture and Photos of the Mansion Today and in the 1910-1914 Period. Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service, 1961.
Stone, Gary Wheeler. "Reconstructing the Shifting Boundaries of St. John's with Addition c. 1720-1780, St. Mary's City, Maryland." Chronicles of St. Mary's 37 (Fall 1989): 249-52.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Eighteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Stone, Garry W. Society, Housing, and Architecture in Early Maryland: John Lewger's St. John's. Ph.D. Diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1982.