Since 1976, every February has officially been designated as Black History Month. This February, stop by the library and give ...

Though President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, did not free the enslaved people in Maryland, it allowed African Americans throughout the nation to serve in the Union ...

This past January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here are a few more stories of non-Jews who have been honored with a Righteous Among the Nations Award. (Continued from ...