Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast

UMBC professor Rebecca Boehling is about to become the first American to head the International Tracing Service, the office in Germany that track the fates of victims of the Nazi regime. We ask her how the search is changing.

Baltimore School for the Arts students performed at Fort McHenry, acting out scenes set during the War of 1812. We talk with them about how it informs their own ideas of history.

Emmitsburg writer Ann Hall Marshall on her debut novel, which she self-published at age 89.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland associate English professor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman organized his new anthology of civil rights poetry movement by events, from Emmett Till’s murder to Robert Kennedy’s assassination. He tells us what he learned collecting poems that were reacting to history in the making.