According to recent articles in the Capital Gazette newspaper, the City of Annapolis and a group of companies called Annapolis Mobility...

Across the ages, prim and proper elders have often asked some variation of this question: “What’s the deal with today’s young people?”...

I’ve written before about William Eddis (see “Our Little Capital” from January 28, 2021), an Englishman who arrived in Annapolis in...

We Marylanders are used to the winter storm drill. As soon as forecasters warn of an approaching snowmageddon, we rush out to stock up on...

Two hundred fifty years ago, on January 30, 1772, Annapolis publisher Anne Catharine Green reprinted a positive piece of political...

Who knew that going clubbing was all the rage in colonial Annapolis? Of course, the city’s elite gentlemen’s clubs of 250 years ago were...

The Maryland Gazette provides an invaluable window into what Annapolis was like 250 years ago. News articles and public letters tell us...

My last blog included a piece by John Clapham printed in the May 2, 1771 Maryland Gazette. In it, the son-in-law of Annapolis printer...

This past Monday was World Press Freedom Day, and the theme “Information as a Public Good” was just as relevant 250 years ago as it is...

In the five months since Maryland’s official tobacco inspection system stopped functioning because of a political dispute between...

I’ve commented before about the innate delays in 18th-century reporting. Because the latest news could travel only as fast as a horse...