The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Stone, William T., Fessenden Blanchard, and Anne M. Hayes. A Cruising Guide to the Chesapeake including the passages from the Long Island Sound along the New Jersey coast and Island Waterway. 1968; reprint, New York: Putnam, 1989.
Notes: This guide gives detailed descriptions of the navigable portions for each of Maryland's rivers and creeks.
Categories: Environment, Maritime, Transportation and Communication
Walsh, James. "Waterways of Prince George's County Then and Now." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 25 (February 1997): 9.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Prince George's County
Walsh, James. "Waterways of Prince George's County." News and Notes of the Prince George's County Historical Society, 27 (November/December 1999): 9.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Prince George's County
Walters, Keith. "The Pocomoke: A River Through Time." Maryland 22 (Autumn 1989): 78-79.
Categories: Environment, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Woodbury, Elton N. Butterflies of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1994.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wroten, William H. Jr. Assateague. 1970; 2d edition, Cambridge, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1972.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Maritime, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
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
Bache, Ellyn. "Miss Mary and the Book Wagon." Maryland 21 (Winter 1988): 32-33.
Categories: County and Local History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Washington County
Bowers, Deborah. "On the Road Again: The Bookmobile in Harford County." Harford Historical Bulletin 67 (Winter 1996): 28-31.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Women, Twentieth Century, Harford County
Corddry, Mary U. Museums and Monuments of the Eastern Shore. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1990.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Enoch Pratt Free Library. The Eastern Shore of Maryland: An Annotated Bibliography. Queenstown, MD: Queen Anne Press, 1980.
Categories: General, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Gelbert, Doug. Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1994. 94-104.
Notes: Brief descriptions of fifteen industrial sites in Maryland. When considering sites on this topic most museum goers would probably know of the Baltimore Museum of Industry but people may overlook many of the other sites covered, such as the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum, the Poultry Hall of Fame, and the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Visitor Center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Carroll County, Calvert County, Frederick County, Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Talbot County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
A Guide to Maryland State Archives Holdings of Worcester County Records on Microfilm. Annapolis: Maryland State Archives, 1989.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Live Wire Staff. "BSM: 25 Years and Still Going." Live Wire 22 (April-June 1991): 1, 3-7.
Notes: Baltimore Streetcar Museum.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Maryland Statistical Abstract. Annapolis: Department of Economic Development, 1967-.
Notes: This source provides data on nearly every aspect of Maryland and the live's of its citizens.
Categories: Agriculture, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Medicine, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century
"Maryland's Best Kept Humanities Secrets: Civil War Museums and Sites in Maryland." Maryland Humanities (Spring 1998): 27.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Military, Transportation and Communication, Women, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City, Howard County, Montgomery County, Washington County, Civil War
Perlman, Nancy. "BMI Research Center Officially Opens." Nuts and Bolts 10 (Summer 1992): [5].
Notes: This detailed, single page, article provides an excellent introduction to the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Industry's research center.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Schofield, Clay. "An Annotated Bibliography of Folklore Material for the Eastern Shore." Free State Folklore 3 (Winter 1976-1977): 19-55.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Worcester County Library. Guide to the William D. Pitts Collection. Snow Hill, MD: Worcester County Library, 1987.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
"Worcester County Library, Snow Hill: Opening/Dedication of William D. Pitts Collection , Maryland Land Surveys, 1677-1982, 23 October 1987." Maryland and Delaware Genealogist 28 (1987): 123-124.
Categories: County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Geography and Cartography, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Twentieth Century, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Way, Peter. Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Notes: This is a comprehensive examination of the digging of North American canals and the ensuing conflicts between labor and management. Working conditions and the organization of work changed drastically between 1780 and 1860. Much of the labor was provided by Irish workers, who were considered to be more expendable than slaves in the Middle Atlantic states. While other studies focus on their propensity to riot and fight amongst themselves in the 1830s, Way argues that this was due less to ethnic rivalries than to economic conditions and management's shabby treatment of labor. The records of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company provide much of the information upon which this study is based.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Transportation and Communication, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
Bender, Thomas. "Law, Economy, and Social Values in Jacksonian America: A Maryland Case Study." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Winter 1976): 484-97.
Notes: Bender examines the legal and economic assumptions underlying the conflict between the Chesapeake Canal Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1820s and 1830s to illustrate his argument about the triumph of "modernization" in the period. The conflict pitted the interests of the canal company to protect rights granted to it by its prior charter for westward development against the interests of the railroad in developing a competitive alternative. While the Maryland Court of Appeals applied conservative assumptions in ruling for the former, supporting the principle of monopoly, the state legislature, believing that competition advanced the interests of the state, applied "modernization" assumptions to force a compromise which permitted the railroad to proceed.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Clark, Ella E., and Thomas F. Hahn, eds. Life on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 1859. York, PA: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1975.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication, Nineteenth Century
Conway, M. Margaret, Jay A. Stevens, and Robert G. Smith. "The Relation Between Media Use and Children's Civic Awareness." Journalism Quarterly 52 (1975): 531-538.
Categories: Education, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Transportation and Communication