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News & Highlights

Rescheduled!

Our 'Grapes of Wrath' Lecture Moved to May 7!

Due the impending snowstorm, our "Grapes of Wrath and Reunion: Andrew John Henry Way's Paintings of Grapes in the Civil War Era" lecture has been rescheduled! The lecture which was to be held tomorrow, will now take place on Thursday, May 7.

Shana Klein, Ph.D. Candidate, Henry Luce Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, Art of the Americas, will lead the discussion This event is part of our Francis Scott Key Lecture Series. For more information, call 410-685-3750 ext. 377 or visit this link.

 

Our History Alive Newsletter:

March, 2015:  It was a moody Chesapeake afternoon late in 1990. There was a message waiting for me when I returned to St. Mary's City after a trip up the road. The archaeologists had a new find they wanted me to see. As the Director at Historic St. Mary's City, it was routine to check in on the digs then approaching their third decade. There always was something interesting going on in the field but there was palpable excitement with this request. Click here for more.

 

A New Exhibition!

February 20, 2015: The Maryland Historical Society proudly presents a new exhibition, entitled ‘A Tale of Three Coffins: Living and Dying in 17th Century St. Mary’s City’ that will open on Maryland Day, March 25, 2015. The coffins, which are made of lead, held members of the Calvert family and represent the only physical remains of Maryland's founding family scholars have ever recovered. The exhibition contains the coffins in the exact arrangement as they were discovered in the foundation of the Jesuit Chapel, the oldest brick building in Maryland. Read on for more.

A Presidential Visit!

September, 2014: President Obama visited Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine to see the original Star-Spangled Banner Manuscript! This special event was part of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Baltimore and the Star-Spangled Spectacular celebration --  Learn more here!

 

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