William G. Thomas III, et. al., The Countryside Transformed

Links:
Calahan Photograph Collection: Eastern Shore Public Library
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/photo/dorabout.htm

The Countryside Transformed: The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1870-1935 Digital Archive
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/eshore/index.php

Eastern Shore Public Library
http://www.espl.org/

Eastern Shore Railroad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Shore_Railroad

A History of Afican Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore
http://www.udel.edu/BlackHistory/

Print Materials:
Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Latimer, Frances Bibbins. Landmarks: Black Historic Sites on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Eastville, VA: Hickory House, forthcoming.

Noe, Kenneth. Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Thomas, III, William G.. Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

Zelinksy, Wilbur. "Where the South Begins: The Northern Limit of the Cis-Appalachian South in Terms of Settlement Landscape," in Exploring the Beloved Country: Geographic Forays into American Society and Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994.