News

Bay Weekly features Water/Ways at Calvert Libary. Water/Ways is a Smithsonian exhibition touring Maryland through our Museum on Main Street program: Calvert Library is the final stop of the Water/Ways tour.
January 27, 2020
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a Letter to the Editor about the public humanities by Maryland Humanities Executive Director Phoebe Stein and Frostburg University President Ronald Nowaczyk. Stein and Nowaczyk.
January 9, 2020
The Daily Times highlights our two December 2019 grants to Eastern Shore organizations. They are Wicomico Public Libraries and Salisbury Middle School, both located in Wicomico County.
The Baltimore Sun featured our grants to Baltimore Coutny organizations this cycle: Patapsco Heritage Greenway and Historic Hampton. The outlet also mentioned our grants to nonprofit organizations in Baltimore City.
Maryland Humanities is pleased to award $74,146 to 13 organizations based in or creating projects in Maryland. The grantees span six Maryland counties and Baltimore City.
We are pleased to welcome Mary Callis and Randy Ontiveros to the organization’s Board of Directors. Callis is the Executive Director of the Garrett Lakes Arts Festival (GLAF) and Ontiveros serves on the English faculty at the University of Maryland.
December 20, 2019
The Bay Bulletin, an extension of the Chesapeake Bay Times, spoke to us and took some footage of Water/Ways in Crisfield at the J. Millard Tawes Museum.
The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum in Baltimore has been accepted into the United for Libraries national registry of Literary Landmarks. Poe House will be the first literary landmark in Maryland, we announce dWith Poe Baltimore, the Citizens for Maryland Libraries, and Maryland Library Association.
Julie E. Greene of The Herald-Mail attended the One Maryland One Book 2019 Author Tour event in Hagerstown. She spoke with author Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha before the event and some of the event's attendees.
November 4, 2019
Mary Grace Keller featured our 2019 One Maryland One Book Author Mona Hanna-Attisha in The Baltimore Sun and Carroll County Times.