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The Oldest Known Photographs of Ellicott City
August 11th 2016
Institutional memory is a vital component of any organization. Today, with increasing turnover rates and the decreasing probability of employees…
A Fight for Recognition: The Lumbee Tribe in Maryland
August 4th 2016
The 2010 United States Census listed 566 American Indian tribes in the United States, none of which reside in the…
Visions of Baltimore Pride, 2000
July 20th 2016
This week, the GLBT Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland is celebrating the 41st year of Pride events in…
Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc.: Maryland's Fair Housing Pioneer
July 14th 2016
Baltimore was a deeply troubled city after World War II. Greedy real estate agents created fear and panic among white…
Port Covington: Baltimore’s Junction with the World
June 30th 2016
Port Covington long served South Baltimore as an industrial hub of the city. Sharing a peninsula with Locust Point and…
Baltimore Sanitary Fair Sesquicentennial
June 16th 2016
The 1864 Baltimore Sanitary Fair (April 18-April 30) provided the large-scale vehicle for Maryland’s Unionist women to bring together both…
History Engaging Youth: Studying Civil Rights History in Maryland
June 2nd 2016
As communities across Maryland and the rest of the country continue to grapple with significant divisions and persistent inequality, people…
“Unwearied in Their Attentions”: Secessionist Women and the 1866 Southern Relief Fair
May 12th 2016
The Civil War deeply divided Baltimoreans along philosophical and sectional lines. The Secessionist women of Baltimore, those whose sympathies lay…
The Mastodon in the Museum
April 28th 2016
The great hall of the Maryland Historical Society is graced with the presence of a mastodon—a replica of a large…
Lost City: Baltimore's Grand Theatres
April 14th 2016
What happened to the movie business in Baltimore? Between 1900 and 1970 about 235 movie theatres in Baltimore opened and closed.…
Lubov Breit Keefer - Baltimore's Grande Dame of the Symphony
March 31st 2016
Lubov Breit Keefer – musician, scholar, teacher, arts activist – was born in 1896 in the industrial city of Nikolaev…
"We only aspire to save" - The Nursery and Child's Hospital of Baltimore
March 17th 2016
The Protestant Infant Asylum of Baltimore City was founded in 1875 to provide refuge for orphaned and abandoned babies. It…
The Paint and Powder Club - "The Oldest Club of its Kind"
March 3rd 2016
The Paint and Powder Club, established in 1893 as a philanthropic and social club, is dedicated both to camaraderie among…
Lost City: Local Taverns and Big Breweries
February 18th 2016
Back in the days when Baltimore was a manufacturing center, neighborhood bars were gathering places for the blue collar workers…
The Chocolate Dandies: Blake and Sissle's other Musical
February 4th 2016
On April 28 of this year, Baltimore born ragtime and jazz pianist and composer Eubie Blake and his partner Noble…