…Greenway at patapsco.org. Maryland Humanities is a statewide nonprofit that creates and supports educational experiences in the humanities that inspire all Marylanders to embrace lifelong learning, exchange ideas openly, and…

Online Literary Journal for Healthcare Narratives Out of State Grant Award: $7,750 Please See Me (www.pleaseseeme.com) is an online literary journal that features health-related stories told through poetry, short stories,…

…to” of oral history. These online lesson plans and oral history tool kits were created in collaboration with Maryland Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and can be…

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Students involved in Veterans Oral History Project—a partnership between Southern High School in Anne Arundel County and Maryland Humanities—conduct oral history interviews with war veterans. Prior to the interviews, they…

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…to our online information collection practices regarding children (and, specifically for the purposes of Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act [COPPA] compliance, children under 13 years of age), Maryland Humanities collects…

…in graduate school that there was an oral history center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Although I had an idea of what oral history was, I had a…

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…logon to the GRANTS PORTAL? To begin electronically reviewing your grants you must logon to the Online Grants Portal or “Foundant.” Click the blue button to go to the logon…

…year. First-place winners at the state level went on to compete at the national competition. We were delighted to have two national winners (Maggie Tighe, 2008 and Jisoo Choi, 2014)…

…close—but only geographically. Emily Post, born Emily Price, spent the first ten years of her life living on Chase Street in Baltimore (a mere three blocks away from where Stein…

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…use existing oral history interviews in the collections of libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums. Learn more about oral history in Maryland on the Martha Ross Center for Oral History…

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