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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Breen, T. H. Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of the Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Middleton, Authur Pierce. Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of the Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era. Newport News, VA: Mariners Museum, 1953.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Eighteenth-Century Gardens of the Chesapeake." A special issue of the Journal of Garden History: An International Quarterly 9 (July-Sept. 1989): 103-59.

Walsh, Lorena S. "Land, Landlord, and Leaseholder: Estate Management and Tenant Fortunes in Southern Maryland, 1642-1820." Agricultural History 59 (July 1985): 373-396.
Notes: Based on the astonishing records of a Jesuit-owned estate in Charles County that lasted for 175 years, Walsh examined 233 tenants, and the effect of their short term vs. long term leases on resource waste or conservation. The story explains how owners used leasing as a means for plantation development and as an alternative to slave labor.

Abell, William S. Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806-1888), Founder of the Sun of Baltimore. Chevy Chase, MD: Published by the author, 1989.

Bennett, Joyce. "Edwin Warfield Beitzel: Poet, Southern Agrarian, Renaissance Man." Chronicles of St. Mary's 47 (Spring 1999): 345-53.

Breslaw, Elaine G. "A Perilous Climb to Social Eminence: Dr. Alexander Hamilton and His Creditors." Maryland Historical Magazine 92 (Winter 1997): 433-55.

Byron, Gilbert. Gilbert Byron's Chesapeake Seasons: A Cove Journal. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press, 1987.
Notes: Poet and chronicler Gilbert Byron's columns were a popular feature in several Eastern Shore newspapers. This collection of observations and reminiscences culled from his newspaper writings are both biographical and lyrical in quality. Byron captures both an appreciation for a nostalgic past and an awareness of the social and economic changes occurring on his beloved shore.

Charbeneau, Jim. Shouts and Whispers: Stories from the Southern Chesapeake Bay. White Stone, VA: Brandylane Publishers, 1997.

Cramton, Willa G. "Selleck Osborn: a Republican Editor in Wilmington, Delaware, 1816-1822." Delaware History 12 (1967): 198-217.

Craven, Avery. "Some Historians I Have Known." Maryland Historian 1 (1970): 1-11.

Crowder, Ralph Leroy. John Edward Bruce and the Value of Knowing the Past: Politician, Journalist, and Self-Trained Historian of the African Diaspora, 1856-1924. Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 1994.

Gardner, R. H. Those Years: Recollections of a Baltimore Newspaperman. Baltimore: Sunspot Books, 1990.

Gustaitis, Joseph. "Mason Locke Weems: 'I Cannot Tell a Lie.'" American History Illustrated 22 (February 1988): 40-41.

Hammett, David, Sr. "Samuel Dashiell Hammett." Chronicles of St. Mary's 35 (Winter 1987): 76.

Hoopes, Roy. Cain. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1982.

Hoopes, Roy. "John Pendleton Kennedy." Maryland 22 (Spring 1990): 50-53.

Hoopes, Roy. "Mason Locke Weems, the Publishing Preacher." Maryland 19 (Winter 1986): 36-38.

Jantz, Harold S. "The View from Chesapeake Bay: an Experiment with the Image of America." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 79 (1969): 151-171.

Keys, Thomas E. "Bookmen in Biology and Medicine I Have Known." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 30 (1975): 326-348.

Land, Aubrey C. "An Unwritten History of Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 61 (1966): 77-80.

Leary, Lewis. The Book-Peddling Parson: An Account of the Life and Works of Mason L. Weems. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1984.

Leon, Philip W. Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler. East Haven, CT: InBook, 1995.

Lester, Noel K. Richard Franko Goldman: His Life and Works. D.M.A. diss., Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, 1984.

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