Smithsonian Marks Creation Of Land-Grant Colleges
In the midst of an all-consuming Civil War 150 years ago, Congress was able to pass legislation that would transform higher education.
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In the midst of an all-consuming Civil War 150 years ago, Congress was able to pass legislation that would transform higher education.
The National Park Service says a remembrance of the Battle of Antietam will top a series of summertime events in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Civil War tourism officials are kicking off their Maryland campaign with a weekend of events in Hagerstown.
The legend of Barbara Fritchie has its detractors, but there's no denying her marketing muscle.
For the past 145 years, generations have come to know exactly what's going to happen on Main Street on the last Monday in May in Westminster.
A heritage tourism and educational group is using videos made by some Maryland middle-school students to spotlight the importance of connecting children with history.
A military medical museum in Silver Spring is celebrating 150 years of collecting body parts.
Emmitsburg antiques dealer Dora Connolly has canceled her annual July trip to a show in Connecticut.
The U.S. Postal Service is releasing two new stamps paying tribute to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, specifically the Battle of New Orleans and the Battle of Antietam.
Long after the guns fell silent at Antietam, the earth yielded up gruesome reminders of the bloodiest day of the American Civil War: bodies, bones, buttons and entire severed limbs -- one of which is now the focus of intense study at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery is opening two new exhibits that retrace the history of the Civil War, including a display of lesser known portraits by photographer Mathew Brady.
A century and a half ago many of Frederick's downtown buildings served as hospitals to care for wounded soldiers from both sides of the Civil War. Downtown merchants were urged last week to use that historic connection to bring in tourists.
Now a bizarre twist to the Annapolis case that nearly turned deadly after $68,000 in historic Civil War memorabilia was stolen.
The western Maryland town of Hancock is marking the 150th anniversary of a little-known Civil War battle.
A cannon from the Chesapeake Bay's oyster wars of the 1800s is on display at a museum in Annapolis.
A living-history group is announcing plans for a second re-enactment of the Battle of Antietam in western Maryland next September to mark the 150th anniversary of the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
The bloodiest day of the Civil War is the focus of an unusual holiday show near Sharpsburg.
The National Park Service has named a new superintendent of the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg.
The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln is mounted under glass, like a diamond in a snow globe, in its new home at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Historic newspapers from the North and the South showing how the Civil War unfolded are going on display at the Newseum in Washington.
The National Park Service is issuing a series of trading cards to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
The director of a Civil War movie filmed in the Maryland area still hasn't repaid most of $300,000 he borrowed from Washington County in 2002.
April 2011 marked the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War, and as with the war itself, the commemorations and anniversaries will continue for the next four years.
A November 1862 letter signed by three surgeons in Hagerstown asking Lincoln to appoint a chaplain to tend to wounded and dying soldiers after the Battle of Antietam was returned to Archives officials Thursday.
A Department of Natural Resources official says the state of Maryland is seeking to buy some land near the South Mountain Civil War battlefield.
