Maryland to Expand Curriculum Guidelines to Include LGBTQ and Disability Rights History
Maryland’s Department of Education has announced plans to expand curriculum guidelines to include LGBTQ and disability rights history. The announcement […]
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Maryland Black History Museum Receives Grant to Preserve Objects
The Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Maryland received a $50 thousand grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to […]
Preservation Maryland Starts New Project to Highlight State’s LGBTQ History
Preservation Maryland, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving historic places, has turned to the Web for help documenting the state’s […]
Campaign Started to Save Cab Calloway’s Baltimore Home from Demolition
Supporters are setting out to save jazz legend Cab Calloway’s Baltimore home from demolition. The three story house in the […]
Call for Proposals: Chesapeake Studies Conference
Salisbury University has issued a call for proposals for its inaugural Chesapeake Studies conference, “Casting a Wide Net.” The interdisciplinary […]
Preservation Maryland Reactivates Flood Recovery Fund
In light of the devastating flood that ravaged Ellicott City, Maryland on May 27, Preservation Maryland has reactivated their Flood Recovery Fund.
University of Maryland and Archaeology in Annapolis Collaborate in Research at Wye House
Recent excavations at Wye House, where Frederick Douglass was enslaved, demonstrate how archaeology is both contributing to new scholarly understandings of the African American experience and becoming a more public enterprise.
March 11th: Harriet Tubman Day Celebrations in Delaware, Opening of National Park in Maryland
The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, Cambridge, Md, opens March 11, as Delaware celebrates Harriet Tubman Day.
University of Maryland Exhibit Shows Connections Between African Spiritual Practices, Christianity
“Frederick Douglass & Wye House: Archaeology and African American Culture in Maryland” interprets independent culture of enslaved people.
'Beyond Chicken Soup' Reveals History of Jewish Americans in Medicine
“Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews & Medicine in America,” the current exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore, examines how medicine has shaped the way Jews are seen, and see themselves.