The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
"Longevity of the Inhabitants of Somerset County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland." Shoreline, 17 (December 2010): 18.
Nevins, Andrew. "Variable Rules Meet Impoverishment Theory: Patterns of Agreement Leveling in English Varieties." Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics, 120 (May 2010): 1135-59.
Notes: Speech patterns on Smith Island.
Thompson, G. Ray, trans. "Alcohol Prices in Somerset County, MD, 1687/8." Shoreline, 17 (December 2010): 17.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Somerset County
Boyer, Jefferson. "Mabell Bounds and the Ducking Stool: Punishment For Women in 17th Century Somerset Courts." Shoreline, 17 (December 2010): 9.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Women, Seventeenth Century, Somerset County
Peyton, Billy Joe. 'To make the crooked ways straight and the rough ways smooth': The federal government's role in laying out and building the Cumberland Road. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University, 1999.
Categories: Transportation and Communication, Allegany County, Western Maryland
Carmean, Beth. "The Origins of Beckford House." Shoreline, 18 (October/November 2011): 1, 2.
"1872 Rules for Somerset County Teachers." Shoreline, 18 (June 2011): 7.
Categories: Education, Nineteenth Century, Somerset County
Guzy, Dan. Navigation on the Upper Potomac and its Tributaries. 2nd edition. Hagerstown, MD: Western Maryland Regional Library, 2011. http://www.whilbr.org/PotomacNavigation/Navigation-on-the-Upper-Potomac-and-Its-Tributaries-Dan-Guzy.
Categories: Environment, Western Maryland
Schlegel, Keith. "With Walt Whitman in Western Maryland." Journal of the Alleghenies, 47 (2011): 14-18.
Horton, Tom. "Scrapeboatin' on Smith Island." Chesapeake Log, (Summer 2011): 17-20.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Somerset County
Moser, Jason D. 'The art and mystery of shipbuilding': An archaeological study of shipyards, shipwrights and shipbuilding in Somerset County, Maryland, 1660-1900. Ph.D. diss., Florida State University, 2011.
Categories: Archaeology, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Somerset County
Windemth, Brenda, and Lyn Stankiewicz Murphy. "Implementation of an Educational Program to Improve Knowledge and Attitudes of Healthier Eating Practices and Benefits of Physical Activity among Residents of Smith Island, Maryland." Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care, 6 (December 2011): 185-92.
Categories: Medicine, Somerset County
Setliff, Rebecca J. Sociolinguistic Variation in Smith Island English: Existential It. Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 2010.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Somerset County
Jones, Michael D. DNA-based Population Estimation, Harvest Vulnerability, and Home Range Dynamics of Black Bears in Western Maryland. Ph.D. diss., West Virginia University, 2012.
Categories: Environment, Western Maryland
Bowman, Lynn G. Crossing into the Promised Land: An Appalachian African-American History. Frostburg, MD: The Author, 2012.
Categories: African American, Western Maryland
Bowman, Lynn G. Living the Lie: "Separate but Equal" in Cumberland, Maryland. Frostburg, MD: The Author, 2013.
Categories: African American, Allegany County, Western Maryland
Anikis, George. Forgotten Name, Forgotten Deeds: The Ringgold Legacy; The Ringgold Brothers of Washington County, Maryland. n.p.: Anikis Books, 2013.
Ashbury, John W. Frederick County Characters: Innovators, Pioneers & Patriots of Western Maryland. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2013.
Payne, William B. "The Forgotten Land of Somerset County, Maryland." Shoreline, 19 (July 2012): 25.
Categories: County and Local History, Somerset County
"New Exhibit Opens on April 12: Crisfield Carvings--Bird Hunting on Broad Waters." Chesapeake Log, (Winter/Spring 2013): 9.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Somerset County
Dryden, Ruth T. Somerset County, Maryland: Will Book EB14, 1748-1749. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2012.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County
Esgar, Lyndeth. Somerset County, Maryland: Marriage References and Family Relationships, 1666-1800. Lewes, DE: Colonial Roots, 2013.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Somerset County
Heise, David V. Somerset County, Maryland Orphans Court Proceedings. 3 vols. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2001-2012.
Categories: Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Somerset County
Fair, Susan. Mysteries and Lore of Western Maryland: snallygasters, dogmen, and other mountain tales. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2013.
Horner, Denise Anne. "Laura Catherine Redden Searing: Somerset County's Own Civil War Poet." Shoreline, 19 (December 2012): 10-11.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Somerset County, Civil War