Maryland State Archives

Documentary Film Screening: Voices of Baltimore: Life under Segregation   By Morna McDermott McNulty, Gary Homana and Franklin Campbell Jones Voices of Baltimore captures and preserves the rich oral histories of an aging and diminishing population of African Americans who grew up in the Mason/Dixon border area of Baltimore and lived through the Jim Crow era of legal segregation. The narratives  document the  lives of individuals who attended segregated schools and experienced both segregation and desegregation before and following the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v Board of Education ruling.  It...

A FREE 18th Century program: Should the young United States support the French Revolution? A new country struggles to define its identity. Featured speakers: FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY TERROR AND VIOLENCE IN MARYLAND AND THE UNITED STATES. 1793-95. Dr. Matthew Hale, Associate Professor of History, Goucher College “Maryland, a Small State with a Big History” Remember, Explore, Commemorate & Face Four Centuries of Maryland History Burton Kummerow, Founding Director, Maryland’s Four Centuries Project

Speaker: Dr. Susan Langley, Maryland State Underwater Archaeologist  Join us to learn who were motivated by religion and who by politics; who was a surgeon, an anthropologist and the founder of one of the most respectable colleges on the East Coast, and who guided and influenced geographers, naturalists, explorers, and even the Royal and American Navies for centuries. Registration: Please email or call Emily Oland Squires to RSVP at [email protected] or 410-260-6443. Please note: A valid photo ID is required to enter the Archives building.

The Reference and Research Departments Explored Featuring Archivists Nate Miller, Rachel Frazier, Jen Hafner and Chris Haley Come meet the archivists who help connect you to our collections. Reference and Research Archivists provide access to our records and help to educate the community about the treasures that lie within the MSA. Learn about the background and daily duties of the professionals who use the records of the archives to answer genealogical and historical mysteries. The Maryland State Archives is continuing its Brown Bag Lunch and Learn Speakers Series this summer...