Area History
- Conowingo Dam: Power on the Susquehanna – Conowingo Dam’s saga is a tale that has waited nearly 90 years to be told!
- Building The Chesapeake Bay Bridge – Tying Maryland together with steel…
- Battle on the Chesapeake: The U.S. Revolutionary Naval Battle fought between Great Britain and France – The French naval fleet under Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse defeats the British fleet under Admiral Sir Thomas Graves 5 Sep 1781…
- Is That A Fort By The Key Bridge? – Join Baltimore Heritage on a journey to Maryland’s only Island Fort!
- The Steamboat Era – When Baltimore was “Queen of the Bay”
- Settling America: The Maryland Project – 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.
US History
- Confederates Interred in France?= On 19 Jun 1864, the CSS Alabama and the USS Kearsarge met in a fierce battle off the coast of France…
World War II
- Surrender of the Philippines/ Battle of Bataan – For 3-months beginning in January 1942, American and Filipino forces battled against the invading Japanese on the island of Luzon, eventually surrendering. They were forced into the Bataan Death March, where thousands would die as a result of some of the most horrific war crimes committed by the Japanese.
Korean War
Indigenous History
- Who can Identify as a Native American? – What’s the deal with “Pretendians”?
- What Does it Mean to be a Federally Recognized Tribe? – The 1830 Indian Removal Act led to the forced relocation of nearly 50,000 Indigenous people. What happened to the ones that stayed?
Would You?
- Would You Have Joined the American Revolution? – Depending upon who you were, there was a good chance the answer would have been no…
- Would You Have Fought in the Civil War, North or South? – This talk, by Steven Sodergren, Professor of History and Political Science at Norwich University, examines the various causes of the war, focusing on what those who participated in it saw as their motives…
Play & Protect: The Northern Chesapeake Environment
- Big Falls & The Gunpowder River – Explore the rich beauty and natural diversity of the Gunpowder watershed…
- Chasing the Chesapeake – It is a race without equal. Eleven racing yachts…
