In 1826, when artist J. Wattles painted Anne Owen Tiernan’s portrait, he saw a woman with wide-set eyes under arched…
The Maryland Historical Society will partner with the National Park Service and the Baltimore School for the Arts to produce…
This is the first in a series of posts by Maryland Historical Society fellows which highlight their experiences researching the…
MdHS needs your help identifying bands, people, dates, and places from the Baltimore music scene of the late 1980s and…
This week’s post is a re-blog of a New York City Historical Society post that originally appeared January 15, 2014.…
(This is the second part of a two part series. The first part was posted on December 11, 2014.) Oriole…
The story of how the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) acquired the papers of the state’s founding family is not well…
(This is the first part of a two part series. The second part will be posted in January, 2015.) Baltimore…
Like so much of the City of Baltimore, the annual monument lighting bears the stamp of Mayor William Donald Schaefer.…
Recent Saturday morning trips with my mother to Lauraville once again prompted interest in our family’s deep roots in the…
Underbelly staffers Eben Dennis and Joe Tropea were recently invited by Lance Humphries, chairman of the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy…
This Sunday, October 19, marks the 240th anniversary of the burning of the brig Peggy Stewart, or as the event…
On the evening of July 3, 1944, the International League Baltimore Orioles squared off against the Syracuse Chiefs at Oriole…
When we heard there was a two-alarm fire at the old Mayfair Theatre on the 500 block of North Howard…
(This is the second part of a two part series – The first part of the story was posted on May…