Historical interpretation

David Blight, acclaimed biographer of Frederick Douglass, recalls the famed Black orator's 1852 speech contrasting the promises of our Declaration of Independence with the horrors of slavery.

We’re about a week away from marking 208 years since the British bombarded Fort McHenry and failed to capture it--just one of many stories brought to life for visitors by the Fort McHenry Guard. We talk to one of the park rangers who founded the Guard forty years ago, and a young volunteer.

Historian Anthony Cohen brings the ‘living history’ model to the Underground Railroad; and novelist Robert Stucky talks about A Complicated Legacy, the…