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What a week. Today we look back at the hurricane and earthquake that struck Maryland the week before last, and Baltimore Gas and Electric spokesman Rob Gould addresses criticism of the utility’s effort to restore power to over 750,000 of its customers.

Adam Goodheart on the ideas of 1861.

Tom Hall talks with the writer Dudley Clendinen about the activities he’d like to do before his death.

Sheilah gets some analysis of last night’s Baltimore City mayoral candidates’ forum from Baltimore Sun City Hall reporter Julie Scharper.

There’s been lots of talk this election season about putting criminals behind bars. But what happens when they get out? Jericho Reentry Program case manager Greg Carpenter tells Sheilah what ex-offenders need to succeed, and what makes people ready to pull a trigger in the first place.

The story of one of the most pivotal battles of the Revolutionary War, and the Marylanders who sacrificed themselves so General Washington’s army could fight another day.

Tom Hall talks to Stanley Mazaroff about his book on Henry Walters, founder of the Walters Art Museum, and Bernard Berenson, the scholar and dealer who helped ferret out copies in Walters’ collection and, by doing so, secure the Walters’ position as a great museum.