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"White Enough to Pass": Uncovering the story of John Wesley Gibson
January 21st 2016
“John Wesley Gibson represented himself to be not only the slave, but also the son of William Y. Day, of…
Lost City: Baltimore's Vibrant Automobile Show Rooms
January 7th 2016
In early 1900s Baltimore, Mt. Royal Avenue looked quite different from the land originally developed in 1881 carved from portions…
Thomas Poppleton's Surveyor's Map that Made Baltimore, 1822
December 17th 2015
Between 1776 and 1820 Baltimore grew like kudzu on a riverbank. Geographically three settlements, the original town, Old town and…
Lost No More: Recovering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s "Forest Leaves"
December 2nd 2015
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s first book of poems had been considered lost to history for well over one hundred years.…
A sneak preview of "Paul Henderson: Photographing Morgan (1947–1955)"
December 2nd 2015
Underbelly presents this sneak preview ahead of the opening of the Maryland Historical Society’s popular traveling exhibition of the work…
John Niernsee: Architect, Engineer and Surveyor
November 5th 2015
John Rudolph Niernsee (1814-1885) was one of Baltimore’s most prolific and successful architects. Over the course of his nearly 50 year…
Here at Last He is Happy: The Death and Burial of Edgar Allan Poe
October 22nd 2015
“There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told.” –Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man of the Crowd,”…
When Maryland Almost Got Philadelphia: The Remarkable Story of the Mason-Dixon Line
October 6th 2015
It takes a shrewd fellow indeed to persuade the King of England to grant him a charter to all the…
Maryland on Film II: Free Fall/Bird Flu edition
September 29th 2015
Choo! We think our birds have the flu. Neither the O’s nor the Ravens can catch a break lately, so…
The entire Julius Anderson Photograph Collection is now online
September 24th 2015
In order to raise awareness of our amazing photograph collections, the H. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Historical…
Baltimore’s Wrestling Superfans
September 17th 2015
Long-time fans of professional wrestling will remember the sport’s golden age—the ’80s—when stars such as Dusty Rhodes, Bruno Sammartino, Ric…
E.J. Gallagher: Builder of Lifetime Homes
September 3rd 2015
In the first decades of the twentieth century Baltimore saw a boom in rowhouse building that came to be dominated…
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte - The Woman I Have Come to Know
August 13th 2015
Elizabeth “Betsy” Patterson Bonaparte was just another name to me when I arrived at MdHS in 2012 as a volunteer…
“A Somewhat Noted Controversialist, of Baltimore”: The Reform Career of the Reverend Andrew B. Cross, 1810-1889
July 23rd 2015
Andrew Boyd Cross was a strongly polarizing figure in the divisive public issues confronting the United States, the state of…
Designing the Washington Monument
July 2nd 2015
This Independence Day weekend, Baltimore celebrates the rededication of its most recognizable landmark, the Washington Monument. The Mount Vernon Place…