Five Minute Histories: Produced and Presented By Baltimore Heritage, 26 Apr 2022. Founded in 1960, Baltimore Heritage, Inc. is Baltimore’s nonprofit historic and architectural preservation organization. Their Mission? To amplify Baltimore’s diverse cultural heritage through collaboration, advocacy, and education. Baltimore’s premier preservation minded organization, dedicated to saving and sharing Baltimore’s rich and diverse heritage. Check…
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The Battle Monument
Author: Lyle Garitty, Independent Regional Historian and Writer
Settling America: The Maryland Project
This video, the second in a series about settling the American colonies, is about the experiment known as Maryland. Maryland was dreamt up by Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, as a refuge for English Catholics in a period when they were unable to practice openly. Like certain other colonies, Maryland was part of an elite…
Confederates Interred in France?
Produced and Presented By: The History Underground Aug 2023 Think you know History? Check out History Underground on Facebook and YouTube – You may just learn more than you thought you knew… On 19 Jun 1864, the CSS Alabama and the USS Kearsarge met in a fierce battle off the coast of France. In the end, the inferior shells of the CSS Alabama…
Matilda (O’Neill) Wood Memorial Plaque
Matilda O’Neill Wood (Image: Maryland Center for History and Culture) “Heroine of Havre de Grace” 1796-1867 In the late spring of 1813, the British Navy under Rear Admiral George Cockburn was in the midst of a campaign of plunder and destruction along the upper eastern shore of Maryland, looting and destroying settlements and fisheries up…