The sole sponsor of a state resolution aimed at exonerating nearly a dozen colonial Marylanders accused of witchcraft or executed by capital punishment testifie ...

This past Tuesday was Maryland Day, commemorating the date in 1634 the first English settlers arrived here aboard the Ark and ...

Maryland, 1664: The first colonial "anti-amalgamation" law is enacted (amalgamation referred to "race-mixing"). Other colonies soon followed Maryland's example. A 1691 Virginia law declared that ...

While there are plenty of brick-and-mortar museums to explore throughout the state, Maryland's oldest town is an outdoor living history museum ... of the Maryland colony. When the capital moved ...

Maryland celebrated its 391st birthday Tuesday at St. Clement’s Island Museum in Coltons Point, near what was the first landing spot of colonial settlers here.

Historical markers on the road to Leonardtown proclaim Maryland’s legacy as a haven of religious tolerance. Nevertheless, only three years after it became a colony, Maryland adopted an anti ...