But Claire McCardell was a pioneering outlier. From the 1930s to the 1950s this designer found freedom creating affordable, ...

Visitation Hotel just opened in Frederick, Maryland, an underrated city filled with 19th-century buildings and independent ...

Frederick Douglass was an Eastern Shore native, abolitionist leader, social reformer, and one of the most important leaders of the movement for African American civil rights in the 19th century.

The son of a slave woman and an unknown white man, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey" was born in February of 1818 on Maryland's eastern ... would last into the Civil War.

Courtesy: Historical Society of Frederick County, MD Originally called the Confederate ... not slavery, caused the Civil War, and that Confederate soldiers were heroic and defeated militarily ...

AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, HE CAME BACK TO BALTIMORE ... "The owners had quite a mentor in Maryland-native Frederick Douglass. As an enslaved teenager, Douglass worked in Fells Point as a caulker ...