History

February 5, 2013

1015 Paca St. 633 Sarah Ann St. Dozens of addresses all over Baltimore were once home to Maryland's African-American Civil War veterans. Many of them had been Eastern Shore slaves. Today, we'll hear about a Maryland State Archives project to document their lives, and we'll hear what their experience was like during the war--and after.

February 5, 2013

Former USA Today reporter Maria Goodavage takes war coverage in a different direction by sharing the stories of military dogs and the roles they played over the years in combat. Goodavage is the author of "Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America’s Canine Heroes."

January 30, 2013

Lawrence Lanahan

January 29, 2013

This month marks 150 years since President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the Confederate states midst the Civil War. Three historians tell the story of Lincoln's order and its pivotal significance in the war and the abolitionist crusade.

While imprisoned at Point Lookout during the Civil War, Lanier composed a haunting piece of music. 

Karen Avrich tells about the life of activist and feminist Emma Goldman and her lover, Alexander Berkman, the anarchist Sasha said to have carried out the first terrorist act in the U.S. when he tried to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892. Avrich finished Sasha and Emma, the book her late father, scholar Paul Avrich, started. She joins us in advance of her evening appearance at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore to talk about the American anarchist-communist movement and two of its most prominent figures.

President Obama is set today to lay out his proposals to cut gun violence. At a conference at Johns Hopkins, experts have been sharing ideas for curbing gun violence.  We’ll get suggestions Stephen Teret, Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Hopkins.
Then, the latest installment in our series "Flags of Maryland." Today, why a Baltimore Presbyterian church decided to hang a gay pride flag, and a Dickeyville resident on the Missing in Action flag she flies in honor of her dad, who went missing before she was born.