Skip Navigation
MarylandToday

Produced by the Office of Marketing and Communications

Subscribe Now

History

Collage of Glenn Tipton and Tim Ripper Owens of the band Judas Priest, Duke Ellington, and Gary "Dr. Know" Miller of Bad Brains

Local Music History on Shuffle

UMD Doctoral Candidate’s Playlist Amplifies County’s Artistic Legacy

Read More
Women in rest house

Women’s Work

In New Book, Alum Historian Chronicles the Grassroots Work to Recognize Women’s Sacrifices, Service During World War I

Read More
Crowd outside church

A Walk Through East Baltimore’s American Indian ‘Reservation’

Alum Creates Tour of Her Peoples’ History—and Continued Presence—in East Baltimore

Read More
Collage of '70s film stills

5 Recommendations for a ‘Bad’ Movie Night

1970s Filmmaking Left a Rebellious Legacy. A UMD Class Explains How.

Read More
Collage of letters to Lincoln

Letters of Hope and Familiarity

Alum’s New Book Highlights African Americans’ Relationship to Lincoln

Read More
Collage of photos from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

Last Words

For Two Decades, Professor Leads Writing Workshop for Holocaust Survivors

Read More
Students in beds in the Armory

The Postwar Campus Crunch

75 Years Ago, a GI Bill-Driven Influx Led to Bunks in the Armory, Classrooms in the Gym and Crowds in the Coliseum

Read More
Julie Schablitsky at dig

Harriet Tubman’s ‘Training Ground’

Professor Helps Discover Site of Eastern Shore Cabin Owned by Abolitionist’s Father

Read More
Houghton illustration

Open Secrets

Alum Leads Renovation of NSA Museum—and Shares Some of its Treasures

Read More
DeNeen Brown

Fighting Forgetting

Journalism Professor Unearths Grim History of Century-old Tulsa Race Massacre

Read More
Newspapers collage

NEH Awards $325K to UMD Libraries for Newspaper Digitization

Project Preserving Maryland’s Historic Papers Reintroduces Voices of Marginalized Groups

Read More
"Digging Holes for Planting Sugar Cane, Antigua, West Indies, 1823" by William Clark

NEH Grants to Support History Professors’ Research

Part of $24M Awarded Nationwide, Funds to Support Work Expanding Enslaved.org Database and Researching Book on NYC Transit Desegregation

Read More
Current Page is 4

Maryland Today is produced by the Office of Marketing and Communications for the University of Maryland community on weekdays during the academic year, except for university holidays.