Slavery

'Game of Thrones' recap: 'The Bear and the Maiden Fair'

2013-05-13 06:16:00

It really pains me to admit this, but I’ll confess it anyway: I like Jaime Lannister. Yes, he pushed innocent 7-year-old Bran Stark from a window, paralyzing him. And, yes, he very-grossly has sex with his own sister. And, yes, he’s...

Towson costumer passes on her passion for history to her students

2013-05-07 08:45:00

Nora Worthington, the resident costumer for the Baltimore School for the Arts, has long loved the idea of dressing up and living the past. As a sixth-grader, she starred in Hampton Elementary School's Bicentennial production, and she visited her two...

'Game of Thrones' recap: 'Kissed by Fire'

2013-04-29 06:15:00

Poor Sansa Stark. First, she was pledged to marry the despicable, pathetic, cruel, spineless boy-king Joffrey. Now, the Lannisters are plotting to stick her with his even less-attractive uncle, Tyrion. Granted, to viewers of “Thrones,”...

America is exceptional, and that includes the way we treat immigrants

2013-04-29 03:00:00

Dear Scholar, It was wholly a pleasure to get your thoughts about the current debate over illegal immigrants and how to approach the nettlesome challenge they represent to us -- and we to them. It was good of you to rehearse some classical history for...

'Game of Thrones' recap: 'And Now His Watch Is Ended'

2013-04-21 20:54:00

�“The revenge you want will be yours in time,” – Varys �All hail, Daenerys Targaryen: Queen of dragons, multilingualism and the double-cross. “Game of Thrones” is at its best when one of its major, fan-favorite characters...

Thatcher and the Falklands

2013-04-17 06:45:00

Regarding the recent article, "Argentine leader not on list for Thatcher funeral" (April 12), it seems logical that to me Great Britain did not invite Cristina Fernandez, the president of Argentina to Margaret Thatcher's funeral. The news item, however,...

'Game of Thrones' recap: 'Walk of Punishment'

2013-04-14 20:25:00

“There’s a beast in every man and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand,” - Jorah Mormont For the first two seasons on "Game of Thrones," terrible, cruel, unspeakable horrors tended to happen primarily to the Stark family. The...

Arena Stage premieres Tazewell Thompson's 'Mary T. & Lizzy K.'

2013-04-01 06:50:00

Tragedy seemed to stalk Mary Todd Lincoln as surely as it did her husband. Long before that Good Friday in 1865 when the Lincolns decided to attend Ford’s Theatre, it was clear that the mental health of the president’s wife had begun to...

'Game of Thrones' recap: Season 3 premiere, 'Valar Dohaeris'

2013-03-31 19:56:00

Remember when Daenerys Targaryen was just a little girl afraid of her older (loser) brother?� My, how times have changed.� In� “Valar Dohaeris,” the Season 3 premiere of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” Daenerys is looking more and...

Colonial connection serves Players well in lively '1776'

2013-03-27 21:36:23

Congress' inability to agree on matters of import isn't exactly a new phenomenon, but the Colonial Players' current production of the musical "1776" reminds us that fiery debate has been a part of our nation from the outset. Sherman Edwards' 1969 Tony...

Honoring Harriet Tubman

2013-03-26 10:59:45

President Barack Obama's designation Monday of a new national monument to Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery on a Dorchester County plantation in 1849, then helped guide scores of other slaves to freedom in the North during the decade before the Civil...

Obama establishes Tubman park on Eastern Shore

2013-03-25 17:46:00

President Barack Obama set aside 480 acres on the Eastern Shore on Monday as a national monument to honor Harriet Tubman — a victory for advocates who have long sought to memorialize the abolitionist's role in leading dozens of slaves to freedom....

This detail from an 1878 Hampton map shows the location of the Grand Contraband Camp just northwest of Lincoln and Queen streets. As many as 7,000 refugee slaves lived there during the Civil War

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Documentary about an African Muslim prince captured and sold into slavery in the American South. Saturday, May 18, at 2 p.m. at New Haven Public Library, 133 Elm St. Free.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Documentary photographer Lisa Kristine, left, introduces Vivienne Harr, 9, during a lecture at the Orlando Museum of Art on Saturday, May 4, 2012.

2013-05-03 00:00:00