Charles H. Walker settled in Columbia County after the war, and his descendants are committed to preserving and sharing his ...

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

BALTIMORE — The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his ...

The remnants of a Confederate soldier statue was toppled and beheaded in Frederick’s Mt ... had served in a Confederate Maryland military unit during the Civil War; the vandalism was found ...

Developers are looking to build 50 single-family, detached homes in Frederick — drawing upon an approval that dates back over 100 years. The project, called Rock Hill, would be on 13.47 acres owned by ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored Troops returned to Talbot County, on Maryland’s Eastern ... you could also free you.” Frederick Douglass (who once worked at ...

Begin your exploration at each of the three county historical societies and learn more about the intricacies of the houses in which they reside.

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union group started in 1874 intending to end the consumption of alcohol in the United States ...