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...

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?”...

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...

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...

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...

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...