Local History

Passengers aboard the maiden voyage of RMS Titanic included several prominent Baltimoreans.

The founding of the colony of Maryland.

The daring escape of "the dinnertime burglar!"

Einstein visits Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland.

We’ll go On the Record with the Washington Post reporter who traced how many slaveholders served in Congress over decades, and with a Johns Hopkins museum curator and a scholar who tell why it’s important to study and honor those who were enslaved at the Homewood estate.

The Baltimore Orioles reinvent themselves in the 1890's.

In September 1862, the Confederate Cavalry arrived in Urbana, Maryland, and though Federal troops were on their heels, they decided to hold a ball to celebrate.

The last streetcar to run in Baltimore was the No. 8 . But by the time the car's run had been completed, so had the riders' dismantling of it!