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Featured Events
May 6, 2024 History Conversations REWIND: Montgomery County Agriculture: From Tobacco to Today
with Tom Farquhar | The rich soil of Montgomery County has supported a wide variety of agricultural enterprises, ranging from millennia of crop cultivation by indigenous communities, to tobacco plantations of […]
May 14, 2024 History Conversations: Differing Historical Perspectives on Slavery in Maryland and the District of Columbia
with Jim Johnston | Tuesday, May 14 at 2:00 p.m. | The word “slavery” brings up a mental image of the “peculiar institution” as it existed in the Deep South right before […]