Baltimore History

A chocolate-covered holiday story

Elections just aren't what they used to be in Baltimore.

If you think elections are rough now, listen to what they were like in Baltimore in 1856!

We’re about a week away from marking 208 years since the British bombarded Fort McHenry and failed to capture it--just one of many stories brought to life for visitors by the Fort McHenry Guard. We talk to one of the park rangers who founded the Guard forty years ago, and a young volunteer.

What would you do if they surrendered to you?

Who were the real heroes after the flood?

Ford McGill returns to the states to study medicine to help the new colony of Maryland, Liberia.

Disaster in Western Maryland.

Fighting pirates along the Barbary Coast.

Can one day change the course of history?