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The Women of the Pitch & Putt Golf Club Drive Home a Powerful Legacy
How the nearly 90-year-old club helped desegregate the city’s public courses and advance the civil rights movement.
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For 50 Years, Southeast Baltimore’s “I Am An American Day” Parade Welcomed New U.S. Citizens
At its height, the four-hour spectacle drew patriotic crowds of more than 250,000 to cheer on newly naturalized citizens, marching bands, and famous parade marshals.
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Four Key Takeaways from Maryland’s Primaries
After a hotly contested season, challengers knocked off several incumbents in Democratic races.
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UMD Historian’s New Book Reevaluates Our Understanding of The Revolutionary War
In 'The American Revolution and the Fate of the World,' Richard Bell offers a deeper look at the war—not only as the colonies’ battle for independence, but a full-throttle global conflict.
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Amid Immigration Crackdowns, Asylee Women Enterprise Offers Crucial Support to Asylum Seekers
The Trump Administration’s overhaul of the immigration courts has been far less public than its militarized deportation raids.
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History and charm meet right around the corner in Frederick County.
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New Book Explores How the Civil Rights Era Shaped Political Resistance Today
In 'Police Against the Movement', University of Baltimore history professor Joshua Clark Davis documents how the movement tackled police injustice head-on.
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The Heyday of Southeast Baltimore Corner Stores
Six families detail the history of their iconic shops, which neighbors relied on for everything from homemade egg custard snowballs to butcher-your-own goats.
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In 1916, Harry Houdini Escaped a Straitjacket Dangled Above a Packed Baltimore Street
The legendary performer’s most famous local appearance, 110 years ago this month, drew 50,000 people to one of downtown’s busiest intersections.
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General Ship Repair is a Testament to Baltimore’s Maritime Roots
The south side of the Inner Harbor used to house convoyed rows of such shipyards, but now there is only this one—which has been operated by the Lynch family for more than a century.
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Senator Cory McCray’s Memoir Recounts How an Apprenticeship Changed His Course
At 18, after serving time in juvenile detention, McCray was accepted into a five-year apprenticeship program with the International Brotherhood of Electricians.
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Can Anyone Stop Baltimore City’s Most Dangerous Drivers?
Crashes have killed nearly 500 people in Baltimore City over the past decade, and safety advocates say leaders have left tools on the table.
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Photos: Baltimoreans Join National Shutdown to Protest ICE
Crowds gather at Hopkins Plaza as part of a nationwide strike—which called for no work, school, or shopping on Jan. 30—in objection to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts.
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A comprehensive resource guide including a list of camp experiences, from sports to academic to religious, in the Baltimore area.
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Osita Nwanevu’s New Book Makes a Bold Assertion on National Politics
In 'The Right of the People,' the Baltimore-based journalist argues that the U.S. Constitution is not the solution to our dysfunction, but its cause.
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The Largest Jane Austen Collection in North America is, Surprisingly, Right in Our Backyard
In some ways, the collection is as much about its founder Alberta Hirshheimer Burke, the intrepid Goucher College alumna who pursued Austen with a nearly messianic fervor, as it is about Austen herself.
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The Decline, Fall, and Unexpected Veneration of Luigi Mangione
The Department of Justice wants to execute the former Gilman valedictorian for the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Others call him a hero. But what drove the alleged killer?
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We’re Still Here: The Still-Evolving Story of the Piscataway Nation
Two centuries before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland's Indigenous tribes from their land. Piscataway descendants want people to know their history.
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Norman Morrison’s Self-Immolation Protesting the Vietnam War Shocked America’s Conscience
On Nov. 2, 1965, the Baltimore Quaker and father of three doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire at The Pentagon, below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
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The Kids Are Alright: ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Approaches Its 40th Anniversary
Filmed before a Judas Priest show at the Capital Centre in Landover in 1986, the 16-minute cult classic has been referred to as both the “seminal anthropological study of beer-swilling teenage metalheads” and “one of the greatest rock documentaries ever.”
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The Bromo Seltzer Clocktower Ticks On After More Than a Century
One of the world’s few female clock-keepers, Eliza Kurtz takes us inside the downtown landmark.
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Iconic Journalist Murray Kempton Had Baltimore Roots, But He’s Often Forgotten Here
Maryland researcher Andrew Holter—who recently released an anthology of the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's work—discusses how Baltimore impacted Kempton's craft.
