The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Calhoun, Stephen D. The Marylanders: Without Shelter or a Crumb. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Military, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County, Civil War, Southern Maryland
"A Bay for All Seasons." Maryland 27 (September/October 1995): F28-F29, F31, F33.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Caroline County, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Earle, Swepson. The Chesapeake Bay Country. Baltimore: Thomsen-Ellis Company, 1923.
Notes: Divided into three regions -- southeastern Maryland, Upper Bay, and the Eastern Shore, this work includes a history for each, written by five noted authors, followed by a description of the counties in each, along with places of interest and the people of these places. The histories of the areas places special emphasis on major houses and genealogy of the owners. It is nicely illustrated with contemporary photographs, which nearly 80 years later serve as historic images. There are four pages of interesting photos of African Americans.
Categories: African American, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Education, Family History and Genealogy, 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
Manchester, Andi. "St. Mary's City." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 19 (August 1989): 34-38.
Categories: County and Local History, St. Mary's County, Southern Maryland
Manchester, Andi. "Solomon's Island." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 21 (July 1991): 32-37.
Categories: County and Local History, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Pogue, Dennis J. King's Reach and 17th-Century Plantation Life. Annapolis, MD: Maryland Historical and Cultural Publications, 1990.
Notes: A discussion of the archeological digs at King's Reach and what the findings tell of life at the time, focussing on what can be learned of the plantation's physical layout.
Categories: Agriculture, Archaeology, Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Seventeenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Southern Maryland
Reps, John. Tidewater Towns: City Planning in Colonial Virginia and Maryland. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1972.
Notes: Early towns did not generally spring out of nowhere. Town planning was common and an important part of Chesapeake Maryland's colonial history. The government played an active role in the founding and formation of towns. Annapolis and the District of Columbia were unique in that their plans did not resemble those common amongst other English colonies.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Geography and Cartography, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Nineteenth Century, 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
Richardson, Hester Dorsey. "Colors of the Counties." Calvert Historian 8 (Fall 1993): 50-52.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Seventeenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City, Cecil County, Charles County, Calvert County, Dorchester County, Kent County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Shomette, Donald G. "Incident at Solomons." Bugeye Times 13 (Spring 1988): 3, 6.
Categories: County and Local History, Calvert County, Southern Maryland
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
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
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
Notes: Carr and Walsh make detailed use of probate records from seventeenth and eighteenth century Maryland to argue that the period in Chesapeake area history represented a shift from an early emphasis upon material necessities to an improved standard of living marked by "gentility." The authors contend that this change reached across class lines and helped to fuel, rather than check, the productive economy of the colony. The article includes extensive tables and graphs of evidence regarding consumer items for several Maryland and Virginia counties.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Shomette, Donald G. Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay, and Other Tales of the Lost Chesapeake. Centreville, MD: Tidewater, 1996.
Notes: Underwater archaeology.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, County and Local History, Maritime, Science and Technology, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
Shomette, Donald G. "The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 30 (January 2000): 58-61, 94-95, 97.
Categories: Maritime, Charles County, Other, Southern Maryland
Kimmel, Ross M. "'I Am Busy Drawing Pictures'." Civil War Times Illustrated, 41 (May 2002): 38-44.
Categories: Military, St. Mary's County, Civil War, Southern Maryland
Himmelheber, Peter. "Sotterley Plantation During the War of 1812." Chronicles of St. Mary's, 51 (Winter 2003): 90-93.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, St. Mary's County, Southern Maryland, War of 1812
Flower, Floyd. "Cecil's Mill: St. Mary's County, MD." Old Mill News, 20 (Spring 1992): 14.
Hagaman, Robert A. Personal Battles: The Lives of Maryland's Black Civil War Veterans, 1840-1920. Ph.D. diss., Northern Illinois University, 2004.
Categories: African American, Military, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore County, Baltimore City, Queen Anne's County, St. Mary's County, Civil War, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
Pelzer, John D., and Linda C. "The French Lady." Civil War Times Illustrated, 31 (May/June 1992): 28-31, 66-67.
Categories: Military, Women, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region, Civil War, Southern Maryland
Shomette, Donald G. "The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay." American Heritage of Invention and Technology, 14 (no. 3, 1999):12-16, 18-23.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Transportation and Communication, Charles County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland
"Charles County Hard Hit by the Civil War." The Record, 86(October 1999): 1-3.
Categories: Nineteenth Century, Charles County, Civil War, Southern Maryland
Shomette, Donald G. "The Guns of St. Mary's." Maryland Historical Magazine, 93 (Winter 1998): 476-96.
Categories: Military, St. Mary's County, Southern Maryland
Shomette, Donald G. Tidewater Time Capsule: History Beneath the Patuxent. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1995.
Categories: Archaeology, Maritime, Southern Maryland
Bowling, Garth, Jr. "Charles County's Georgetown Alumni During the Civil War." The Record, 67 (April 1995): 1.
Categories: Military, Charles County, Civil War, Southern Maryland
Calhoun, Stephen D. The Marylanders: Without Shelter or a Crumb: A Saga of the Fascist Repression of a Family during the Civil War. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2007.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, St. Mary's County, Civil War, Southern Maryland