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May 27, 2010

Sacagawea, Thurgood Marshall and Frederick Law Olmsted Revisit Maryland for Chautauqua 2010 in July

“History teaches everything including the future,” according to French poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine. Each summer the Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) uses the past to shed light on the future—bringing to life famous historical figures who have something to say to us today. Chautauqua 2010, Beyond Boundaries, brings Sacagawea, Thurgood Marshall, and Frederick Law Olmsted to eight locations across Maryland.

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May 26, 2010

Maryland Humanities Council Calls for Board Member Nominations

The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) is seeking new Board members to join our dynamic Board. MHC seeks prospective Board members with an impressive record of commitment to the humanities as well as the capacity to advance MHC’s mission.

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May 11, 2010

The Maryland Humanities Council Announces latest Program, The Meaning of Service, for Volunteers

Muhammad Ali said, “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.” Many Marylanders exemplify this value spending countless hours serving others at soup kitchens, homeless shelters or retirement homes, and teaching or mentoring children. The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) announces its newest humanities-based program, The Meaning of Service, which offers volunteers the opportunity to examine and explore the meaning of volunteerism. This program is slated to begin fall 2010.

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May 24, 2010

First-Ever Statewide Community Reading Project in Maryland Receives $10,000 Verizon Foundation Grant

With a $10,000 Verizon Foundation grant, the Maryland Humanities Council will promote literacy through its One Maryland One Book program by bringing reading and discussion programs to various communities throughout the state.

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May 11, 2010

The Maryland Humanities Council Announces latest Program, The Meaning of Service, for Volunteers

Muhammad Ali said, “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.” Many Marylanders exemplify this value spending countless hours serving others at soup kitchens, homeless shelters or retirement homes, and teaching or mentoring children. The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) announces its newest humanities-based program, The Meaning of Service, which offers volunteers the opportunity to examine and explore the meaning of volunteerism. This program is slated to begin fall 2010.

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April 28, 2010

Allegany County Student Wins at 2010 Maryland History Day

With a theme like Innovation in History: Impact and Change, this year’s state History Day competition promised to be an exciting—and nail-biting—experience for Maryland students. Directed by the Maryland Humanities Council, History Day engages 16,500 state middle and high school students in an exploration of a historical subject of their choice that addresses the National History Day theme. The contest, held at University of Maryland, Baltimore County Saturday, April 24, gave students the opportunity to meet and compete with more than 500 of the state’s young history scholars.

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April 23, 2010

Maryland Humanities Council Honors Harford County Teachers

The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) recognized outstanding teachers Cynthia Malek and Kathleen Mikos from Patterson Mill Middle/ High School in Bel Air for their excellent work at promoting reading and writing by awarding them the Maryland Humanities Council’s first annual Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year Award. The award was presented at the Letters About Literature award ceremony that took place Saturday, April 17 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in downtown Baltimore.

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April 14, 2010

Letters About Literature Contest Winners Announced

BALTIMORE, MD. April 14, 2010. The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) is pleased to announce the state winners of the 2009/2010 Letters About Literature (LAL) writing contest. Nimai Agarwal from Germantown is the Level 1 (grades 4 to 6) first place winner. Claire Wang from Frederick is the Level 2 (grades 7 and 8) first place winner, and Carson Wigley from Berlin is the Level 3 (grades 9 to 12) first place winner.

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April 12, 2010

Over 550 Students Compete in Statewide History Competetion

BALTIMORE, MD. April 12, 2010. Maryland History Day, the state’s largest history competition, will take place Saturday, April 24, 2010 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Directed by the Maryland Humanities Council, the competition brings together over 550 talented middle and high school students, representing 17 counties and Baltimore City.

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March 1, 2010

Maryland’s One Book Pick for 2010 Speaks to Global Community

Baltimore, MD. March 1, 2010. The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) is delighted to announce that the One Maryland One Book 2010 selection Outcasts United: An American Town, A Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference, a nonfiction work by Warren St. John.

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January 21, 2010

The Maryland Humanities Council Receives an $80,000 Grant from Boeing

The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) has received an $80,000 grant from the Boeing Charitable Trust to lead a three-state effort to develop effective means of holding civil discourse about important civic issues. The Boeing Charitable Trust program officer Angel Ysaguirre notes, “There is an urgent need to re-imagine new ways to discuss issues across ideological camps, to model civil debate and dialogue between people who come down on different sides of an issue and to share information that strives to be unbiased, fact-based and even-handed.”

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January 20, 2010

Maryland Poet Laureate Stanley Plumly Joins the Maryland Humanities Council’s Speakers Bureau

BALTIMORE, MD. January 20, 2010. The Maryland Humanities Council (MHC) today announced that Maryland Poet Laureate Stanley Plumly has joined its Speakers Bureau. Plumly was appointed Maryland’s ninth Poet Laureate by Governor Martin O’Malley in October 2009 on the recommendation a statewide selection committee convened by the Maryland State Arts Council. In this honorary position, Plumly will travel around the state sharing his insights on the meaning and significance of poetry in Marylanders’ daily lives.

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January 19, 2010

Howard County History Day Student and Teacher to be Honored at State House

Six outstanding Maryland middle and high school students – including one from Howard County – who received national honors at the annual National History Day competition and the 2009 Maryland History Day Teacher of the Year – a former Howard County teacher – will receive commendations at sessions of the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates Monday, January 25, 2010. The students won awards at the 2009 Maryland History Day competition, sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council, and received honors at the 2009 National History Day contest, where they competed with over 2,500 students from across the country.

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January 14, 2010

Comcast Foundation Awards Grant to Maryland Humanities Council to Support its One Maryland One Book Program in 2010

January 14, 2010. The Comcast Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the Maryland Humanities Council to support its One Maryland One Book program in 2010. One Maryland One Book is a community reading program that improves literacy by bringing reading and discussion programs to youth and adults in Maryland communities. One Maryland One Book is Maryland’s first-ever statewide community reading project and is the signature program of the Maryland Center for the Book, a program of the Maryland Humanities Council. Initiated in fall 2007, it is a year-long project that culminates with two months of public programs, using literature to spur conversations in communities around the state on issues critical to Marylanders.

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September 30, 2009

Music of the Movement: A Sustaining Voice

Congressman John Lewis and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon join scholars Dr. Portia Maultsby and Dr. Tricia Rose for Music of the Movement: A Sustaining Voice November 17, 2009 at Montgomery College.

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September 17, 2009

James McBride, author of Song Yet Sung, to appear at Baltimore Book Festival

The Maryland Humanities Council is pleased to bring the celebrated author of Song Yet Sung, James McBride, to the 2009 Baltimore Book Festival in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Place. He will speak in the festival's Literary Salon, Sunday, September 27, 2009, at noon in the East Park.

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