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Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce that its statewide tour of The Way We Worked, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, will move to its second stop in Chestertown on March 31.
March 27, 2017
Op-ed: The Trump administration and Congress must consider all that will be lost without public funding for the humanities.
March 20, 2017
Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce the selection of Purple Hibiscus by award-winning Nigerian author and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as the 2017 One Maryland One Book.
March 15, 2017
Maryland Humanities is proud to announce that 8 outstanding Maryland middle and high school students and 2 Maryland History Day teachers who received national honors at the annual National History Day competition were awarded commendations at sessions of the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates.
February 1, 2017
Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce that its statewide tour of The Way We Worked, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition, will open in its first of five stops at the Allegany Museum in Cumberland on February 4.
January 25, 2017
Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce that it has helped bring to Maryland a new pop-up exhibition from the National Archives, The Bill of Rights and You, commemorating the 225th anniversary of the ratification of this landmark document on December 15, 1791.
January 17, 2017
Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce that along with partner the Brunswick Heritage Museum it has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the Delaplaine Foundation. The grant will support the Museum’s companion exhibits and public humanities programming for The Way We Worked.
December 21, 2016
Maryland Humanities has awarded grants to eleven area nonprofit and educational organizations in its recent grant cycle for public humanities programming and its special grant program, Humanities and the Legacy of Race and Ethnicity in the United States.
December 14, 2016
As the final event in its yearlong commemoration of the Pulitzer Prizes’ Centennial, Maryland Humanities has partnered with the University of Maryland College of Arts and Humanities to present Worldwise Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series: The Pulitzer 100 on December 6 at 7 p.m. at The Clarice.
November 29, 2016
Maryland Humanities welcomed three new leaders to its Board of Directors at its recent annual fall retreat on October 7, 2016.
November 1, 2016