Part II: Teenaged Integration Pioneers Endure a Lonely SpotlightGloria SloanGloria Reeves Sloan was the oldest of the first three students to integrate Belmont High School. Entering Belmont High as a junior, she would be the first African American to graduate from...
By Martha Waldron, Assistant Administrator, Maryland Heritage Areas Program Joy, Resilience, and Community on the Chesapeake Less than one mile from Annapolis City Dock, as the crow flies, sits a 5-acre waterfront parcel known as Elktonia Beach: the last remnant...
Known as King William’s School in its early years, the Maryland Assembly formally chartered the institution as St. John’s College in 1784. Five buildings constructed on the campus predate 1864, the year Maryland abolished slavery: McDowell Hall (1789), Humphreys Hall...
Why is Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but it’s profound enough to be worth discussing with older students as well. Near the start of his presidency,...
Rosa Parks wasn’t the first African American to publicly protest segregation in regional and local transportation systems in the modern civil rights era. Thirteen years before Ms. Parks refused to move for a white passenger, Bayard Rustin had a similar...
By Deborah Scott, Director, The Buffalo Soldier Living History Site While Marylanders are familiar with the histories of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and the Underground Railroad, they may be less familiar with the history of the Buffalo Soldiers and the...
One of the many letters Abraham Lincoln received after being elected president in November 1860 was from Alexander Stephens, a former congressional colleague of Lincoln and the future Vice-President of the Confederacy. He urged Lincoln to make a public statement...
In May of 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, finding segregated schools “inherently unequal.” One year later, the Court issued its “Ruling on Relief,” mandating that desegregation proceed “with all deliberate speed.” Given the deliberate vagueness...
by Allison Luthern, Architectural Survey Administrator Tobacco barns are one of the most iconic and recognizable historic building types in Maryland. Because of the deep and abiding traditional techniques of tobacco cultivation in our state, these buildings have distinctive features...
On this day, we are pleased to post this essay by Lucas Morel, Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and Politics at Washington and Lee University and long time former faculty member at Teaching American History, who considers the lasting legacy...
