Could Maryland’s popular state flag become the next target of whitewashing symbols of the Confederacy from our country’s history? No one has suggested such a change yet, but it came up … ...

The flag's older history is tied to George Calvert, an English politician and colonizer who more or less founded the Maryland colony, although he died just weeks before the charter for the state ...

Correspondence of the New-York Times. GOOD HOPE, D.C., Saturday, Oct. 12, 1861. The scouting party from this Brigade are no sooner fairly out of Southern Maryland than the rebels grow bold again ...