Events
The staff of the Maryland State Archives presents educational programs to the community to share information about our collections. We invite you to participate in our upcoming events or to view recordings of our past programs. If you have a suggestion for a program topic or search tip you would like to see here in the future, please email your recommendation to msa.helpdesk@maryland.gov. Thank you for your support.
Past Events
View recordings of past lectures, seminars, tours and workshops, as well as helpful training videos on how to use various records in our collections in our free online Presentation Library.
Upcoming Events
May Virtual Lunch and Learn - “Writing the Biography of Frederick Douglass and the Bailey/Douglass Family: Scenes from the Archives”
Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 1:00pm
Presented by Ezra Greenspan
Online Event
This talk will survey selected sources for the writing of a comprehensive, historical biography of Frederick Douglass and the Bailey/Douglass family. It will proceed scenically in the manner of an illustrated historical panorama, matching documentary evidence (chosen mostly from Maryland archives) to central events in the history of one of our country's most remarkable families from the 1660s to the fall of Richmond in 1865.
Ezra Greenspan, Edmund and Louise Kahn Chair in the Humanities, Emeritus at Southern Methodist University, is a literary, cultural, and media historian who has written biographies of Walt Whitman, G. P. Putnam, and William Wells Brown. He is currently writing a comprehensive biography of Frederick (Bailey) Douglass and his generic family, whose coverage will run from 1634 into the twentieth century.
June Virtual Lunch and Learn - “The Best Evidence Yet for an Anomalous Animal”: Documenting the Cultural History of Chessie the Sea Monster
Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 1:00pm
Presented by Dr. Eric A. Cheezum
Online Event
Dr. Eric A. Cheezum will present on his new book, Chessie: A Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster, telling the story of the Bay's legendary cryptid, and will describe the research methodology involved in uncovering its history. Dr. Cheezum explores the project's origin as his dissertation and its long gestation and path to publication, along with the extensive research and interviews that made the work possible, and some of the key figures and connections whose generosity ensured that the facts of Chessie's amazing career were brought to the surface. As Chessie's story will show, truth really is stranger than fiction!
Eric A. Cheezum is a native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He received his B.A. in History from Salisbury State University in 1999, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of South Carolina in 2002 and 2008, respectively. Besides Chessie: A Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster (Johns Hopkins, 2024), he is the co-author of Woodrow Wilson (CQ Press, 2003) with Kendrick A. Clements. He is an adjunct professor at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills, Maryland and a full-time farmer.
Community Collections Grant Writing Workshop
Monday, June 17, at 10:00 am - 1:00pm
Presented by Nancy Melley, Program Director for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Location: Maryland State Archives
Free registration required
Are you or your organization looking for funding for a digitization project? Whether you are new to the process or have done it before, this program will teach you about possible funding sources and give you a chance to learn more about the application process.
This three-hour workshop will introduce attendees to the competitive archival grant programs at the National Archives, which are made through the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The primary emphasis of this workshop will be on the Access to Historical Records grant program. Learn more about the program here.
Attendees will have the opportunity to read and comment on two sample applications as part of the review process. They also will learn general tips that successful applicants have used to strengthen their applications.
The workshop also will offer attendees the opportunity to start designing their own project and application package: defining project scope, devising a budget, developing a work plan, and preparing an application.
Nancy Melley, a program director from the NHPRC, will help participants understand the grant application process, including the components of a good project summary, narrative, budget, and supplemental materials. The instructor also will discuss the review process, the response phase, and Commission recommendations.
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