This testimony urges the general assembly of Maryland to vote yes to HJ0002 and support the exoneration of alleged witches of colonial Maryland .

By 1640, the Virginia courts had sentenced at least one black servant to slavery . . . Three servants working for a farmer named Hugh Gwyn ran away to Maryland. Two were white; one was black.

Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience has received $257,000 in grants to support ...

Gerry, as she was named, has been sent across the country to breed with one of several genetically matched males in the Maryland Zoo colony. It’s the largest African penguin population in North ...

Six penguins were initially moved to the retirement home: Boulders, Lambert, Harlequin, Durban, Isis and Dyer. The penguins ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... driving agricultural economies based on tobacco in Virginia and Maryland and on rice along the coasts ...

The Maryland Zoo announced the recent hatch of two endangered African penguin chicks ... these animals have helped establish new colonies at zoos and aquariums in 35 states and six countries ...