Between 1776 and 1820 Baltimore grew like kudzu on a riverbank. Geographically three settlements, the original town, Old town and…
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s first book of poems had been considered lost to history for well over one hundred years.…
Underbelly presents this sneak preview ahead of the opening of the Maryland Historical Society’s popular traveling exhibition of the work…
John Rudolph Niernsee (1814-1885) was one of Baltimore’s most prolific and successful architects. Over the course of his nearly 50 year…
“There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told.” –Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man of the Crowd,”…
It takes a shrewd fellow indeed to persuade the King of England to grant him a charter to all the…
Choo! We think our birds have the flu. Neither the O’s nor the Ravens can catch a break lately, so…
In order to raise awareness of our amazing photograph collections, the H. Furlong Baldwin Library at the Maryland Historical…
Long-time fans of professional wrestling will remember the sport’s golden age—the ’80s—when stars such as Dusty Rhodes, Bruno Sammartino, Ric…
In the first decades of the twentieth century Baltimore saw a boom in rowhouse building that came to be dominated…
Elizabeth “Betsy” Patterson Bonaparte was just another name to me when I arrived at MdHS in 2012 as a volunteer…
Andrew Boyd Cross was a strongly polarizing figure in the divisive public issues confronting the United States, the state of…
This Independence Day weekend, Baltimore celebrates the rededication of its most recognizable landmark, the Washington Monument. The Mount Vernon Place…
As a Wing Fellow in Chesapeake Bay Maritime History at the Maryland Historical Society, I have spent the last year…
Lizette Woodworth Reese was one of the most beloved poets to live and write in Baltimore. Her crisp but lyrical…