“A nation can be considered great when it defends liberty as Lincoln did, when it fosters a culture which enables people to ...

Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, Harriet Taubman, Babe Ruth, blue crabs and Edgar Allen Poe are some of what Maryland is known for.

It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

Mancil “Manny” Root is reported as being anywhere between 9 and 11 at the time of his enlistment in the Union Army.