I’ve written before about the scourge of smallpox and the potential risks and rewards of getting inoculated against it in colonial...

Through the past three months, we’ve witnessed the war in Ukraine through news reports and social media feeds viewed on our living room...

We often take our modern transportation technology and infrastructure for granted. Our nationwide network of highways, bridges, and...

Fortunately, we don’t feel many earthquakes in Annapolis. When a magnitude 5.8 quake shook the city shortly before 2pm on August 23,...

Like every old city, Annapolis has suffered its share of devastating fires. In my last blog, I mentioned the 1704 blaze that destroyed...

Visitors to Annapolis: An American Story, now open at the Museum of Historic Annapolis, get an up-close view of the original metal-clad...

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...

By January 1772, the nonimportation associations of 1769 and 1770, which organized and enforced colonial boycotts of taxed English goods,...

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...

A year after actress Nancy Hallam captivated an anonymous Annapolis gentleman (most likely Rev. Jonathan Boucher—see “In Praise of...

Sometimes a 250-year-old clipping from the Maryland Gazette sends me down a research rabbit hole. The welcome mat into this week’s warren...

A little more than a year ago, I mentioned two projects that told the stories of nine freedom seekers who tried to escape from bound...

"I will leave no stone unturn’d to find out who keeps them from me..." Online shipment tracking has really spoiled us. Through the magic...

250 years ago, on July 4, 1771, the American colonies were only five years away from declaring their independence from England....

Several months ago, I wrote about actress Nancy Hallam (“In Praise of Artistic Genius,” September 10, 2020) and the rundown playhouse (“A...

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