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The history scholar says massive flows of misinformation and deception on social media and the Web are changing our past, and warping our view of the present.

We’ll go On the Record with historian David O. Stewart. He’s written a biography that traces George Washington’s skills as a political operator, as well as the first president’s failure to speak out against slavery as he came to realize its evils.

The Pulitzer Prize winning historian finds that today's national divisions over race, national identity and democratic ideals were already seething at the time of the American Revolution.

We’ll go On the Record with historian David O. Stewart. He’s written a biography that traces George Washington’s skills as a political operator, as well as the first president’s failure to speak out against slavery as he came to realize its evils.

The author shows us that the mothers who raised Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin were powerful Black women, in their own right.

Nearly 200 years after her birth, Harriet Tubman, who led escaped slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, was honored over the weekend with the…

If you visit the fourth floor of the Baltimore City Chief Medical Examiner’s office, you’ll see a series of what appear to be dollhouses. They feature…

Psychiatric researcher E. Fuller Torrey’s mother told him he had a famous ancestor, a preacher who had made a big impact as an abolitionist back in the…

Three-hundred and eighty years ago today, the first permanent Maryland colonists stepped off their ships, The Ark and The Dove, and onto St. Clement’s…

One-hundred ten years ago this Friday, Baltimore could be seen as a glow in the night sky for miles around the city. It wasn’t the city lights that…