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

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...

Historic Annapolis is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021 Historic Annapolis Preservation Award. HA's Preservation Award...

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...

Two hundred fifty years ago, Joshua Johnson was about to embark on a bold commercial venture. The Annapolis merchant placed an ad in the...

England and France engaged in military conflict with one another for 73 of the 126 years between 1689 and 1815, or almost 60% of the...

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...

Some news cycles are lighter than others, and that was just as true 250 years ago as it is today. Of course, some 21st-century media work...

I’ve written before (see my November 5, 2020, November 26, 2020, and January 14, 2021 blog entries) about Governor Robert Eden’s...

William Eddis arrived in Annapolis in September 1769, three months after his patron, Governor Robert Eden. The Englishman quickly...