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

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

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...

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

I apologize for not keeping everyone on top of the latest news of 1771 the past few weeks. I’ve been a little distracted by everything...

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...

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