A Healthy Gamble?
Interested in undergoing a medical procedure that, if successful, would protect you from the worst effects of a dreaded disease? 250 years ago, that’s the enticing offer that Dr. Henry […]
Sorry, we’re out of paper.
Have you recently experienced a…how to put this delicately…paper shortage? You know…a difficulty in procuring a certain kind of paper that everyone uses quite regularly. I hope you’ve never completely […]
Getting Back to Business?
Is it time to reopen the economy? Has the threat diminished enough to make that a viable option? Do we have enough reliable information on which to base a sound […]
Reason over Passion
Missed the first posts on the Good Intent incident? Read them here: Entry 1: Good Intent…ions? Entry 2: The Tale of the Good Intent Thickens And now we continue our […]
Zoom with HA!
If you’re like us, you’re missing the William Paca House and Garden like crazy – we are looking forward to the day when we can welcome you back to wander […]
The Tale of the Good Intent Thickens
250 years ago, when William Paca and Stephen West published a pamphlet detailing the story of the ship Good Intent, they knew their hardline handling of its cargo of boycotted […]
Good Intent…ions?
The Good Intent episode is forgotten today, but it was a really big deal in Annapolis 250 years ago. When the ship arrived, members of three county Committees charged with […]
Annapolis: The week of April 5, 1770
In these unsettled times, when there’s no limit to the volume of news produced daily for our consumption, it’s comforting to think of an era when news was published only […]
A Historian At Home
Like most other Historic Annapolis staff members and much of the world, Senior Historian Glenn Campbell is working from home these days. Glenn has degrees in History from the U.S. […]