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The Maryland Historical Society Brings In Spring With Flower Show and Lecture on May 15 and 16.

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Seen & Heard: Maryland’s Civil Rights Era in Photographs and Oral Histories

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Maryland Historical Society Players Return!

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Silk Hand-Painted Flag of the Fourth Regiment of the United States Colored Troops

In 1863, the “Colored Ladies of Baltimore” presented this hand-painted, hand-sewn silk flag to...

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"…that George Washington gave his resignation speech to the Continental Congress in the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House?"
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