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On December 2nd, 1859, abolitionist John Brown met his end at the gallows in Charlestown, Virginia.

In 1818, Jacob Gruber, a minister from Pennsylvania, was charged with inciting a slave revolt in Maryland when he preached about abolition in Hagerstown.

Fighting pirates along the Barbary Coastin 1815, US Navy ships encountered a fierce and brave Algerian naval hero, Rais Hamidou.

On August 24, 1813, during the Battle of Bladensburg, Commodore Joshua Barney and 360 sailors and 120 Marines defended Washington—fighting against the…

On a visit to England in 1816, Marianne (Caton) Patterson, the daughter of a prominent Baltimore merchant and granddaughter of Charles Carroll, captured…

On the wintry afternoon of April 13, 1940, with an inch of snow covering the rolling fields, tow traditions collided in the heart of Maryland horse…

In 1848, Henry Grainger sent his young son George to be formally educated at St. Timothy's School in Catonsville. George's complaints may sound very…

On November 19th, at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, one of America's greatest orators of the time, Edward Everett, gave a…

In the spring of 1700, the pirate ship "La Paix" terrorized merchant ships in the Chesapeake region under an impressive blood red flag.

December 10, 2013 - Radio Kitchen - Indian Pudding (with Chris Corbett)Welcome to Radio Kitchen, I'm Al Spoler. I was browsing through my Facebook the…

March 4, 2014 - Radio Kitchen - Raw BeefOur topic this week may be something of a turn-off to some people, and something of interest to others. Here's the…

April 15, 2014 - Radio Kitchen - MICRO-GREENSWhen we dine out these days, there's something happening on the plate at good restaurants everywhere that…

They might just look like piles of sand, but ocean sand dunes play a critical role in protecting our waterfront communities from the devastating effects…

Red-eared slider turtles are native to the mid- and south-central United States, so what are they doing swimming in the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay?

The National Aquarium is getting serious about Inner Harbor water quality. Listen to learn more about how ingeniously designed floating wetlands are…

As a variety of public and private organizations strive to improve the water quality of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, we are seeing a resurgence of native…

John and Curtis Bennett, Conservation Project Manager at the National Aquarium discuss urban conservation efforts.This episode originally aired in January…

Over 3,000 species make a home in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. But when the bitter cold comes, where does all that abundant life go?

The deep ocean is an extreme habitat, challenging and expensive to get to and to study. It is cold, under tremendous pressure from the weight of all the…

For most fish, the line Dory utters in the popular Disney movie “Finding Nemo” is no exaggeration. Sounds exhausting, right? But you’re unlikely to catch…