The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
"St. Mary's: From State's First Years to Jet Age." Annapolitan 4 (September 1990): 21-23.
Categories: County and Local History, St. Mary's County
St. Mary's City Commission. St. Mary's City: A Plan for the Outdoor Museum. St. Mary's City: April 1974.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, St. Mary's County
"St. Mary's County Adopts an Official Song." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 72-73.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, St. Mary's County
Smith, Bert. Down the Ocean: Postcards from Maryland and Delaware Beaches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Notes: Arranged by theme and subject -- famous housing, boardwalk, on the beach, life saving. It presents a vivid picture of life at the shore as interpreted through postcards. Includes some illustration on spots on the way -- diners, bridges, etc. Information on the cards themselves is included and adds to the work's usefulness.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Stone, Gary Wheeler. "St. Maries Citty: Corporate Artifact." Maryland Archeology 26 (March and September 1990): 4-18.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, St. Mary's County
Stone, Mary C. "St. Mary's County Foodways Prior to 1941, and Particularly During the Depression Years of the 1930's." Chronicles of St. Marys 24 (August 1976): 173-83.
Categories: Agriculture, County and Local History, Women, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "Acquisition of the Point Lookout Lighthouse Site by the United States Government from Jenifer Taylor." Chronicles of St. Mary's 26 (January 1978): 340-46.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Politics and Law, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Howard County, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "Point Lookout Lighthouse." Chronicles of St. Mary's 33 (May 1985): 259-262.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "Who Goes There? (Ghostly Manifestations at Point Lookout)." Chronicles of St. Mary's 30 (July 1982): 465-71.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, St. Mary's County
Sword, Gerald J. "House Cove Point Lookout State Park." Chronicles of St. Mary's 26 (July 1978): 391-402.
Notes: This article compiled all available information on House Cove. It, therefore, serves as a good example of the wide variety of resources that can be found and utilized when researching a Maryland property.
Categories: Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County
Szabo, Steve. The Eastern Shore. Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976.
Notes: Photographic essay.
Categories: Agriculture, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Talbot's Hidden Heritage: Catalog of the Exhibition. Historical Society of Talbot County, 1980.
Categories: County and Local History, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Thomas, Joseph Brown, Jr. Settlement, Community, and Economy: The Development of Towns in Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore, 1660-1775. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1994.
Notes: Thomas argues that the seventeen clustered settlements that dotted the lower Eastern Shore actually functioned as towns. Although legislatively established they have been largely ignored in the history of the Chesapeake region. Most historians argue that the area was rural, when in fact its character was between urban and rural.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Dorchester County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Veitch, Fletcher. "Hurricane of 1933." Chronicles of St. Mary's 33 (August 1985): 285-288.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Environment, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Vojtech, Pat. "Talbot Co.: Progressing At Its Own Tempo." Annapolitan 5 (July 1991): 19-22, 24.
Categories: County and Local History, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Wennersten, John R. Maryland's Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time and Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Notes: Wennersten's goal is to make the reader understand the distinct society that is the eastern shore through discussion of the area's agricultural life, its race relations, and maritime society. Brief histories are given of some communities and mention made of some influential people.
Categories: African American, Agriculture, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Maritime, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilstach, Paul. Tidewater Maryland. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931.
Notes: A narrative history of those Maryland counties, all but seven of the twenty-three, touched by saltwater, arranged by theme and locale. There is a great deal of emphasis on the founding of towns and important personages, a wide variety of subjects are covered.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Harford County, Kent County, Prince George's County, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Diamond, Gary. "Point Lookout State Park." Maryland 22 (Winter 1989): 70-71.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, St. Mary's County
Fales, John H. "Occurrence in Southern Maryland of the Carolina Satyr (Satyridae: Satyrinae)." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 5-7.
Categories: Environment, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County
Rambo, Kyle. "A Small Mammal Survey of the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Including the First Records for the Southeastern Shrew (Sorex longirostris) and Masked Shrew (Sorex cinereus) from St. Mary's County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 41 (July/December 1997): 87-88.
Categories: Environment, Military, Science and Technology, St. Mary's County
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Walters, Keith. "Fishing Historic La Trappe Creek." Maryland 20 (Summer 1988): 78-79.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Dorchester County, Talbot County, Eastern Shore
Gough, Al. "The St. Mary's Reading Room and Debating Society." Chronicles of St. Mary's 40 (Winter 1992): 161-94.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, St. Mary's County
Preston, Dickson J. Newspapers of Maryland's Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1986.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Wycherly, H. Alan. "H. L. Mencken vs. The Eastern Shore: December, 1931." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 74 (1970): 381-390.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore