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On Thursday, May 11, Maryland Humanities and Southern High School Signature Program celebrated the culmination of an oral history project in which fifty students conducted interviews with Maryland veterans of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese immigrants who experienced the war.
May 18, 2017
For the third consecutive year, Maryland Humanities will participate in the Route One Reads initiative, a program under the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
May 17, 2017
Maryland Humanities is seeking nominations for new members to join its dynamic Board of Directors. Nominees should have a deep commitment to our mission of engaging Marylanders in lifelong learning in the humanities and a passion for the humanities.
May 9, 2017
Representing seven counties and Baltimore City, 61 Maryland History Day students were selected to advance to the National History Day competition. Additionally, 65 students won special awards at the contest.
May 2, 2017
Have you ever wanted to tell an author how his or her words changed your life? Sixty-one Maryland students were honored for sharing these perspectives with their favorite authors on April 22 at the Maryland Humanities 2017 Letters About Literature Awards Ceremony.
April 25, 2017
Maryland Humanities has awarded grants to two area nonprofit and educational organizations in its recent mini grant cycle for public humanities programming.
April 3, 2017
Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce that its statewide tour of The Way We Worked, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, will move to its second stop in Chestertown on March 31.
March 27, 2017
Op-ed: The Trump administration and Congress must consider all that will be lost without public funding for the humanities.
March 20, 2017
Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce the selection of Purple Hibiscus by award-winning Nigerian author and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as the 2017 One Maryland One Book.
March 15, 2017
Maryland Humanities is proud to announce that 8 outstanding Maryland middle and high school students and 2 Maryland History Day teachers who received national honors at the annual National History Day competition were awarded commendations at sessions of the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates.
February 1, 2017