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...

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,...

I’ve written before (see especially “A Predictable Pattern”, November 26, 2020) about colonial Maryland’s last proprietary governor,...

These days, when public complaints about politics, the media, and rising prices abound, turning back our attention 250 years ago reveals...

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...

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...