The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Meyers, Erik, Timothy Henderson, Burke David, and Hazel A. Groman, eds. Wetlands of the Chesapeake. Washington, DC: Environmental Law Institute, 1985.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Middleton, Arthur Pierce. Tobacco Coast. 1953; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Notes: Middleton, subsequently a retired Episcopal Canon, for years directed work at Colonial Williamsburg. This defining volume on Chesapeake Maritime History contains valuable environmental references coupled to the region's colonial economy.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Miller, Henry M. "Transforming a 'Splendid and Delightsome Land:' Colonists and Ecological Change in the Chesapeake, 1670 - 1820." Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 76 (September 1986): 173-87.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Murdy, Edward O., Ray S. Birdsong, and John A. Musick. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Niemeyer, Lucian. Chesapeake Country. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
"The Potomac River: An Angler's Delight." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 39.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "A Chesapeake Craftsman's Eighteenth Century Gardens." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 414-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Gardening Books in Eighteenth Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 106-10.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Genteel and Necessary Amusements: Public Pleasure Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 118-24.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "The Old Man and the Garden: A Chesapeake Craftsman's Eighteenth-Century Grounds." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 5-8.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Writings about Pleasure and Kitchen Gardening Available in Eighteenth Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 153-59.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Fine and Decorative Arts, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Silberhorn, Gene M. Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Sipple, William S. Days Afield: Exploring Wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century : Essays on Anglo-American Society. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Notes: These essays, while largely anthropological, tell a lot about how the Bay region was settled, the problems with this process, and how European practices moved across the landscape.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Tilp, Frederick. Chesapeake Fact, Fiction & Fun: Pungoteaque, St. Clement, Patapsco, Oxford, Coan. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time: A Brief History of our Geology, Part I: Fathoming the Ocean of Time." Bugeye Times 22 (Fall 1997): 1, 6.
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. "Charterboat Fishing." Maryland 25 (Spring 1993): 33-35.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Warner, James, and Margaret J. White. A Portrait of the Bay Country. Winterville, NC: Creative Resources Systems, 1982.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Wharton, James. The Bounty of the Chesapeake. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1953.
Notes: Wharton's little book is one of the most accessible assemblages of references to Bay resources in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Williams, John Page. "Stewing about Oysters." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (December 1993): 14-15.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Williams, John Page. "Waterfowl Safari." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (November 1994): 20, 22, 24.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Chesapeake Region
Winterbotham, William. An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical view of the America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies. 1795; reprint, New York: Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796.
Notes: An unusual contemporary view of the U.S. as an infant nation, especially of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the City of Washington. Discusses natural wonders, weather, plants, and makes recommendations to "European settlers".
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
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