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“This curious Art will teach you to take down, the great Affairs of Government and Crown.”(1) James Weston, 1743 Special…
Shortly past noon today, April 19, 2018, the niggling “we are forgetting something” hovering on the edges of our brains…
Although largely forgotten today, violinist Leonora Jackson was among a group of pioneering female classical musicians who broke down a…
The Cased Photograph Collection in the H. Furlong Baldwin Library is a remarkable slice of photographic history. The nearly 600…
This summer, under the direction of Loyola University Maryland English Professor Jean Lee Cole, I was part of a group…
Two hundred years ago this month, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born at Holmes Hill Farm in Talbot County, Maryland.…
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel A.M.E.) is a Baltimore landmark. It is a tribute to the city’s African…
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, dedicated in 1839, is a paradigm of the rural cemetery movement which transformed American burial practice. Like…
Happy Halloween from the Underbelly staff! Enjoy these scary photos from the bowels of the Maryland Historical Society’s archives.