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Binding Spines: A Bookmaking Project

Looking to explore your creative side by combining writing with arts and crafts? Join in the fun, and make your own book of poems with poet Mary Azrael. Participants in this...
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After The Game: Writing About Sports

What do poetry and sports have in common? Poet Julia Kudravetz leads this workshop that combines reading and writing poems about sports. Beginning with poems by Robert Frost, A.E....
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Amelia Earhart: Dreams Take Flight

Amelia Earhart was much more than a courageous aviatrix. She was also a photographer, truck driver, avid student and teacher, volunteer nurse, social worker, and even a clothes...
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Read MHC's Blog - Recent Posts

June 22, 2009
School Desegregation in Maryland: What's Your Perspective?
Last night I attended the premiere of "With All Deliberate Speed: One High School's Story," a documentary film about the desegregation of Great Mills High...
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June 17, 2009
Students Advance at National History Day
Competition is stiff and tension is high at the National History Day competition at University of Maryland, College Park! On Tuesday, advancers in the...
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June 15, 2009
Students Bear their Skills at National History Day
Fifty Maryland students--accompanied by History Bears--are competing for honors in the National History Day competition at the University of Maryland, College...
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About MHC

What is the Maryland Humanities Council?

MHC promotes humanities programming throughout Maryland, encouraging dialogue that explores human values, strengthens our community, and connects us to the wider world.

What are the Humanities?

The humanities comprise the disciplines of the liberal arts, such as history, literature and poetry, classics, philosophy, ethics, jurisprudence, comparative religion, the interpretation of the arts, architecture and archaeology.

These humanities disciplines are tools that can help us to explore what makes us human, connect with others, and discover meaning and richness in our lives
and the civic life of our communities.