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A headshot of a white woman with brown, curly hair past her shoulders wears a pink blouse and dark gray cardigan. In the background, slightly blurry, is a tree, grass, and pathway, and a bit of sky.
A Q&A with Lindsey Baker, Executive Director of Maryland Humanities
Get to know our new Executive Director, Lindsey Baker, in this Q&A.
August 3, 2020
Our nation is in crisis.
We state unequivocally: Black lives matter.
June 9, 2020
This Is Our New Deal
Pat Williamsen is Executive Director of Ohio Humanities, one of 56 state-based partners of the National Endowment for the Humanities that also includes Maryland Humanities. We are sharing her message about the CARES Act, shared with permission.
April 14, 2020
Anthology Works to Fill the Void in the Diary as Literature Genre
Dr. Angela Hooks edited a recently published anthology entitled Diary as Literature Through the Lens of Multiculturalism in America. Her essay “Bringing the Diary into the Classroom” has been published in Currents in Teaching and Learning, a peer-reviewed publication. Hooks writes about her passion for the diary and its value in scholarship, specifically as a way to expand scholarship about people a part of groups who have been historically marginalized.
February 24, 2020
August Chissell in an old black-and-white photograph of her head and shoulders. She is a lighter-skinned Black woman with dark black hair. She smiles and looks to be wearing a cardigan. Due to the picture's age, it looks more light brown and black, than black and white.
Retracing the Steps of Baltimore Suffragists
Eleven highway markers are being erected to highlight Maryland women, events, and landmarks involved in the suffrage movement. Jean Thompson is a volunteer writer with the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center: she works on the project documenting local suffragists. Thompson writes about the highway markers and highlights Black women suffragists in Baltimore who organized their own suffrage campaign due to racism within the suffrage movement led by white women.
November 19, 2019
A painted book cover of "Abigail and John" in white font, with blue skiy and the White House in the background. John and Abigail Adams are painted in the foreground, both with brown hair, he in a gray coat and pants and her in a gray long coat and purple dress.
A Q&A with David Bruce Smith, Author and Grateful American Book Prize Co-Founder
We recently spoke with Maryland author David Bruce Smith, who has just published ABIGAIL & JOHN, a children’s book about President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams. Smith’s mother, Clarice Smith, was the illustrator. David Bruce Smith also co-founded the Grateful American Book Prize with Bruce Cole, which recognizes excellence in non-fiction and historical fiction for seventh to ninth graders. He spoke with us about the importance of telling stories like John and Abigail’s and how to make those stories appealing to young readers.
November 4, 2019
Times of Perception
Stevenson University School of Design hosts Times of Perception, a multimedia exhibition that reflects on the experience of Japanese Internment, the Muslim Ban and the treatment of Muslims after the War on Terror. Exhibit Curator Liz Faust discusses talks about the exhibition.
October 23, 2019
Descendants at the International Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Event at Sotterley
September 13, 2019
Bodies & Boats: Seafaring Etymology of Health Phrases
Natalie Elder is the Curator of Cultural Properties at the Chesney Medical Archives for Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. She shares her knowledge of health idioms that originated at sea.
August 30, 2019
Finding Neoclassical Inspiration in the George Peabody Library
In the Stacks produces classical music concerts in the George Peabody Library, with programming inspired by the library’s contents and history.  Horn player Sam Bessen, Founder and Artistic Director of In the Stacks, writes about the history of the library's Neoclassical style and the connection between Neoclassical architects and musicians.
July 26, 2019