Explore Frederick's important role in the history of medicine. Frederick, Maryland, played a vital role during the Civil War, serving as a key medical hub for wounded soldiers from the battles of ...

Since 1998, the City of Alexandria has celebrated March as Women’s History Month. The City of Alexandria offers its annual ...

The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland. First Lieutenant Vivian Elzie Taylor and her sister Marian Elzie Wilson were ...

A coalition of Maryland civil rights, religious and political leaders ... its most dire economic crisis since the end of the Cold War amid an array of U.S. sanctions, including designation in ...

The ninth of 10 children, Booth grew up outside Bel Air, Maryland. After his father's death ... Booth was a Confederate sympathizer during the war. Fiercely opposed to abolition, he attended ...

Hughes was one of the nearly 4 million men, women and children enslaved during the American Civil War. At the time of the recording, in Baltimore, Maryland, on June 11, 1949, he was 101 years old.