Library – Chesapeake Forum

20,000 Years of History from One Oyster Reef in the Choptank River

A sonar mapped oyster reef reveals geologic history of the Chesapeake Bay from 20,000 years ago.

2021 Distinguished Scholar Event: Frederick Douglass: In His Time and In Ours

Professor David W. Blight’s virtual live lecture will draw past and present together by focusing on Frederick Douglass’ key legacies. You are welcome to join a live Q&A following the lecture.

230 Years of Presidential Elections: Washington to Trump, 1788-2018

A virtual magic carpet ride through the past 230 years to see the facts, foibles, and fallacies of U.S. Presidential Elections.

500 Years of Fake News: From False Facts and Fictitious Fallacies to Forgotten Foibles

Tour the past 500 years to see for yourself if “fake news” is a new phenomenon or just “business as usual.”

A Family History of Unionville

A Journey Through the Developing World

A Journey through the Developing World

A humorous and not so humorous “one man’s trek” through the most difficult places on the globe.

A Tale of Five Towns: Community Evolution of Talbot County

A Woman’s Province? Pensioning Two Eastern Shore Heroines

Anna Ella Carroll and Harriet Tubman are asking for government pensions. You will decide.

Airship 103

Each session is a separate video production accessible to registered participants. Climb aboard Airship 103 and enjoy the flights, the views, and technical and operational aspects unique to blimps.

An Hour with a Holocaust Survivor with the U.S. Holocaust Museum

Art across Cultures

From Tokyo to Istanbul, the Freer Gallery program will transport you across its many rich holdings.

Buckets of Warm Spit I: Vice Presidents of the United States

Buckets of Warm Spit, Part II: Vice Presidents During the Civil War

Decoding the Personal Letters of Union and Confederate Soldiers

Examine Civil War soldiers’ letters home and decode historical memorabilia. Within the "casual" comments, what was really being said?

Exploring the Long History of Epidemics in Maryland

FIGHTING WORDS: How Newspapers Reported the American Civil War from the Polarized Perspectives of North vs South

Using a "magic carpet" of old newspapers, view the Civil War from very different perspectives.

From a Flight by Balloon to Men on the Moon

(Course Recording Now Available) A History of Aviation as reported in the newspaper press over four centuries from 1783 through 2021.

John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty”

We will examine “On Liberty,” the seminal work by John Stuart Mills (described as the one piece of political thought most relevant to us today) by analyzing the relative and often competing rights of individuals with the rights of the community.

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