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"This curious Art”: Shorthand record of George Washington’s First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
May 3rd 2018
“This curious Art will teach you to take down, the great Affairs of Government and Crown.”(1) James Weston, 1743 Special…
Curtis W. Jacobs’ Diary and Account Book, 1854–1866
April 19th 2018
Shortly past noon today, April 19, 2018, the niggling “we are forgetting something” hovering on the edges of our brains…
Leonora Jackson: “A Name that Will Live in Musical History”
March 29th 2018
Although largely forgotten today, violinist Leonora Jackson was among a group of pioneering female classical musicians who broke down a…
Through the Lens: Early Photography and the Cased Photograph Collection at the Maryland Historical Society
March 8th 2018
The Cased Photograph Collection in the H. Furlong Baldwin Library is a remarkable slice of photographic history. The nearly 600…
Miss Szold: A Jewish Idealist in the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore
February 22nd 2018
This summer, under the direction of Loyola University Maryland English Professor Jean Lee Cole, I was part of a group…
Career Day: Photos by Henderson
February 16th 2018
You may remember having Career Day in school growing up, a day where adults come into your classroom and talk about their line of work. There are countless types of jobs from manufacturing to paper pushing to directing traffic from a barrel on the side of the road (just wait…
Frederick Douglass: Significant Moments in His Life in Maryland in His Words
February 8th 2018
Two hundred years ago this month, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born at Holmes Hill Farm in Talbot County, Maryland.…
The Rise of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore and the Bethel A.M.E. Church
November 30th 2017
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel A.M.E.) is a Baltimore landmark. It is a tribute to the city’s African…
The Case of Kevin Archer
November 16th 2017
In 1986 Anti-Apartheid demonstrations spread across the nation’s college and university campuses. Shantytown protests sprang up at Dartmouth, Georgetown, George…
Green Mount Cemetery, John Pendleton Kennedy, and Elizabeth Kennedy's Unusual Grave Marker
November 2nd 2017
Green Mount Cemetery, dedicated in 1839, is a paradigm of the rural cemetery movement which transformed American burial practice. Like…
Happy Halloween
October 26th 2017
Happy Halloween from the Underbelly staff! Enjoy these scary photos from the bowels of the Maryland Historical Society’s archives.
The Dream of the ‘90s is Alive: Pre-processing the Joseph Kohl Collection
October 19th 2017
This post originally appeared on December 12, 2013. Whatever you do, don’t mistake the title of this post as a…
An American Tragedy
October 12th 2017
Originally posted on November 29, 2012 Many who devote their lives to bringing about social change can recall a single…
General Hospital No. 7 and the Blinded Veterans of the Great War in Baltimore
October 5th 2017
Many of the hundreds of students who pass through the Humanities Building at Loyola University Maryland each year may not…
What we lost in the Fire
September 20th 2017
This past summer, I was one of five Loyola University students that conducted research on the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore.…