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Maryland Humanities, the coordinator of History Day in Maryland, is pleased to announce that at the culminating awards ceremony on June 15 seven Maryland History Day students received top awards. Sixty-one exceptional students from Maryland participated in the competition.
June 19, 2017
Maryland Humanities, with local partners, will present Chautauqua, its annual living history series, in seven Maryland counties from July 5 through July 14.
June 14, 2017
In support of its programs Chautauqua and Maryland History Day, Maryland Humanities has recently been awarded a $25,000 sponsorship from a new corporate partner, Old Line Bank.
June 2, 2017
Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce that its statewide tour of The Way We Worked, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, will open at its third stop in Westminster on Friday, May 26 at 10 a.m.
May 25, 2017
On Thursday, May 11, Maryland Humanities and Southern High School Signature Program celebrated the culmination of an oral history project in which fifty students conducted interviews with Maryland veterans of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese immigrants who experienced the war.
May 18, 2017
For the third consecutive year, Maryland Humanities will participate in the Route One Reads initiative, a program under the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
May 17, 2017
Maryland Humanities is seeking nominations for new members to join its dynamic Board of Directors. Nominees should have a deep commitment to our mission of engaging Marylanders in lifelong learning in the humanities and a passion for the humanities.
May 9, 2017
Representing seven counties and Baltimore City, 61 Maryland History Day students were selected to advance to the National History Day competition. Additionally, 65 students won special awards at the contest.
May 2, 2017
Have you ever wanted to tell an author how his or her words changed your life? Sixty-one Maryland students were honored for sharing these perspectives with their favorite authors on April 22 at the Maryland Humanities 2017 Letters About Literature Awards Ceremony.
April 25, 2017
Maryland Humanities has awarded grants to two area nonprofit and educational organizations in its recent mini grant cycle for public humanities programming.
April 3, 2017