Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

The US semiquincentennial invites the chance to dream up what Maryland’s largest city could look like in another quarter millennium. Here’s what community members hope to see.

George III is the best-known of Britain’s Hanoverian kings, but there was much more to him than his ‘madness’ and loss of the American colonies.

Memo to Congressional member Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now that you’ve introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf ...

As Maryland lawmakers grapple with a nearly $3 billion budget deficit, a group of Republican Maryland delegates are pushing back on the state’s Democratic-controlled Legislature and a financial crisis ...

Forensics labs need Americans with 18th-century ancestral ties to the states of Maryland, Delaware or North Carolina to come ...

Sotheby's is offering a rare 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence, with a high estimate of $4 million.

After years of calling for border walls and closed borders with adjacent states, one might be forgiven for thinking that ...

Thanks to a grant from Petco Love foundation, The Cat’s Meow Adoption Center was able to spay or neuter an additional 44 cats ...

When you think about some of the most important history lessons in the United States, learning about the Founding Fathers is ...

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory of evolution alongside Charles ...