In 1816, about 40 years into the nascent American experiment, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free…it expects what never was and never will be.”
Tomorrow afternoon, on this Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday weekend, the Benjamin Banneker Museum in Catonsville, Md. is presenting a panel discussion on the role of citizenship in preserving American freedom. Two members of that panel join us in the studio. Judge Robert M. Bell is the former Chief Judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals. He served in that position from 1996-2013, culminating a nearly 40 year career on the bench. Dr. Jean Baker is an historian and the author of many books on 19th century American History. She taught at Goucher College for many years on their Towson campus, and she continues to teach in Goucher’s Prison Education Program.
