Thirty years ago, the Dunbar Poets were the greatest show on hardwood. A look back at that storied hoops team and the showdown that wasn’t with Calvert Hall.
Inside Paul Laurence Dunbar High School’s windowless gymnasium, the air is thick with humidity—and history. Today is winter solstice, yet outdoor temperatures in the 60s have transformed the home of...
With Halloween on the horizon, a guide to some of our city’s scariest sites.
Baltimore can be a pretty creepy town.
Neighborhoods like Fells Point and Mt. Vernon have hundreds of years of colorful history ripe for ghosts and other apparitions. Edgar Allan Poe gathered...
Baltimoreans reflect on the day that changed America, 10 years ago this month.
Parris Glendening
Governor of Maryland on September 11, 2001
When you run for office you think about all the things that can happen. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined the circumstances...
A group of Eastern Shore history buffs believe Anna Ella Carroll was a secret member of Lincoln’s cabinet.
On a cool, autumn evening, motorists traveling U.S. 50 through Cambridge were doing double takes. As if twilight on the Choptank River had conjured apparitions, there was Abraham Lincoln, alive and...
"I grew up on the water because my father was in love with the water. He did a lot of cruising. I just turned 60. I've been sailing professionally since early high school.
In the fall of 1980, I got...
Baltimore was William Donald Schaefer’s one true love—and we loved him right back.
On one of his earliest days as mayor of Baltimore, William Donald Schaefer marched into City Hall and offered cheerful greetings to the veteran WJZ-TV reporter George Baumann.
"You're looking well...
125 years after the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened, the egalitarian mission of its founder remains.
In 1831, 22-year-old Enoch Pratt, a former Boston hardware store clerk, moved to Baltimore, launching a wholesale hardware business at 29 S. Charles Street. Proving a successful merchant, he expanded...
The Maryland Historical Society’s documents, weapons, and personal items offer a glimpse of the Civil War the way Marylanders lived it.
Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh . . . on and on go the names of unforgettable Civil War battles. The seemingly endless list of destruction that spanned 1861 to 1865 left 600,000 men dead and a...
How the Pratt Street Riot determined the course of the war.
On the morning of April 19, 1861, the 6th Massachusetts Infantry arrived at Baltimore's President Street Station on its way to defend the nation's capitol in Washington City. Seven days earlier,...
At Fort McHenry, Gay Vietzke finally got the job done—and not a moment too soon.
On a frigid morning in the last days of 2010, Gay Vietzke and a small clutch of staffers stood shivering on a small balcony of Fort McHenry's just-constructed visitor center, watching with quiet...
