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

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,...

According to recent articles in the Capital Gazette newspaper, the City of Annapolis and a group of companies called Annapolis Mobility...

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...

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...

The Good Intent episode is forgotten today, but it was a really big deal in Annapolis 250 years ago. When the ship arrived, members of...

In these unsettled times, when there’s no limit to the volume of news produced daily for our consumption, it’s comforting to think of an...

Like most other Historic Annapolis staff members and much of the world, Senior Historian Glenn Campbell is working from home these days....