For 26 years, Maryland Humanities’ Chautauqua brought more than 80 historical figures to life for Marylanders all over the state!
While we will no longer present new Chautauqua performances, many past performances are available for viewing on YouTube, filmed and edited courtesy of our friends at Montgomery College Television.
| Theme | Year | Characters |
|---|---|---|
| Raising Their Voices | 2020 | Margaret Brent, Alice Paul, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Lou Hamer |
| Making Waves | 2019 | Matthew Henson, Grace O’Malley, Jacques Cousteau |
| Seeking Justice | 2018 | Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Voices from the Great War | 2017 | W.E.B. Du Bois, General John Pershing, President Woodrow Wilson |
| Masters of Their Craft | 2016 | Duke Ellington, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ernest Hemingway |
| Sporting Lives | 2015 | Wilma Rudolph, Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe |
| Creative Women: Breaking the Mold | 2014 | Emily Dickinson, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe |
| Turning Points in History | 2013 | Rachel Carson, Jackie Robinson, Amelia Earhart |
| Inspiration, Unity, Preparedness, Courage: Maryland and the War of 1812 | 2012 | James Madison, Rosalie Stier Calvert, Major General Robert Ross, Francis Scott Key, Mary Pickersgill |
| The American Civil War: A House Divided | 2011 | Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman |
| Beyond Boundaries | 2010 | Thurgood Marshall, Sacagawea, Frederick Law Olmsted |
| Rights and Reformers | 2009 | Woody Guthrie, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Civil Rights: Taking a Stand | 2008 | Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, George Wallace |
| Food for Thought | 2007 | George Washington Carver, Cesar Chavez, Julia Child, Upton Sinclair |
| Creativity and Imagination | 2006 | Coco Chanel, Leonardo da Vinci, Henry Ford, Paul Robeson |
| War and Democracy: Personal Journeys | 2005 | Margaret Bourke-White, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, George Orwell |
| The American Environment: Voices and Choices | 2004 | Rachel Carson, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry David Thoreau |
| Let Freedom Ring | 2003 | Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine, Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| America on a Soapbox | 2002 | Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Theodore Roosevelt, Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
| Creating a New Nation | 2001 | Abigail Adams, Benjamin Banneker, George Washington, Phillis Wheatley |
| Maryland in the Civil War | 2000 | Clara Barton, William Lloyd Garrison, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman |
| American Originals | 1999 | W. E. B. Du Bois, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, Georgia O’Keeffe |
| American Humorists | 1998 | Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Will Rogers, James Thurber, Mark Twain |
| Literary Maryland | 1997 | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, H. L. Mencken, Edgar Allan Poe |
| A Voice in America | 1996 | Frederick Douglass, Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Democracy in America | 1995 | P. T. Barnum, Horace Greeley, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alexis de Tocqueville, Frances Wright |
Illustrations by Tom Chalkley, Baltimore, MD