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Featured Events
August 27, 2024 History Conversations | The U.S. National Bureau of Standards moves to Gaithersburg, Maryland
With Bert Coursey, PhD, NIST Retired, Chairman of NIST Alumni History Committee |Tuesday, August 27 at 2:00 p.m. | Virtual Event | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began […]
September 2, 2024 History Conversations Rewind | Canavest: A Final Piscataway Outpost in Colonial Maryland
with retired Maryland Historical Trust Chief Archeologist Dennis Curry |Virtual Event | Canavest (located on Heater’s Island) was the last permanent village of the Piscataway Indians in Maryland. Various aspects of […]