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Tomorrow Governor O'Malley will sign into law new restrictions on guns in Maryland. We talk to the woman leading a referendum drive against the bill and to a researcher who studies gun laws across the country.

Tom Hall talks to the winner of Washington College's Sophie Kerr prize, the largest undergraduate literary award in America.

Preakness is here Saturday. What will you be serving at your Preakness Party? Sascha Wolhandler has some ideas.

The Maryland Morning Culture Calendar: treats for aesthetes!

May 15, 2013

Last night at the Enoch Pratt Central Library in Baltimore, Washington College announced the winner of the Sophie Kerr prize. At $61,000, it's the largest undergraduate literary award in the country.

An expert in international terrorism, Mitchell Reiss has been recognized for his negotiating skills during the Northern Ireland peace process and North Korean nuclear crisis. He has also written the book Negotiating with Evil: When to Talk to Terrorists. He is now the 27th President of Washington College which U.S. News & World Report ranksas one of the top ten up-and-coming liberal arts colleges.

The value of 1861: The Civil War Awakening is in Adam Goodheart’s solid reporting of lesser-known stories about historical figures and why they mattered," writes our reviewer and special producer for this hour, historian and poet Hollis Robbins. Goodheart, director of Washington College’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, has contributed posts to Disunion, the Civil War series of The New York Times online.