Featured Events
October 1, 2023 History Conversations REWIND: Old Time Music in Montgomery County: Will Adams and Beyond
For International Music day on October 1, We’re sharing this presentation from the 2021 Montgomery County History conference with Jake Blount. This presentation goes in-depth in describing the fiddle and […]
October 9, 2023 History Conversations REWIND: First Americans and England’s Potomac Frontier, 1606-1676
In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, we’re featuring this rewind from the 2021 Montgomery County History Conference. In 1607, most of the Algonquian-speaking peoples of the Potomac River Valley not […]
October 17, 2023 History Conversations REWIND: Spooky Stories from the State Archives
For National Archives Month, we’re highlighting this talk with Rachel Frazier, Searchroom Coordinator at the Maryland State Archives, as we explore the spookier side of archives. Get into the Halloween […]
October 24, 2023 History Conversations: Canavest: A Final Piscataway Outpost in Colonial Maryland
Canavest (located on Heater’s Island) was the last permanent village of the Piscataway Indians in Maryland. Various aspects of the site—which was occupied from 1699 to at least 1712—are vividly […]
October 30, 2023 History Conversations REWIND: Emancipation in Montgomery County, Maryland
With Susan Soderberg and Eileen McGuckianOn November 1, 1864, Maryland became the first state below the Mason-Dixon Line to free slaves within its boundaries by popular vote. On the 156th […]
November 4, 2023 18th Montgomery County History Conference
Join Montgomery History on November 4, 2023 for the 18th edition of the ever-popular Montgomery County History Conference. We’re again partnering with Montgomery College and will be holding it in-person, […]
November 14, 2023 History Conversations: The Gaithersburg History Project
Historian Anthony Cohen will discuss his findings for Gaithersburg’s Black History Project. He will focus on the period after Gaithersburg was incorporated in 1878 as well as the emergence of […]
November 20, 2023 History Conversations REWIND: Old Roads, New Histories
With Kacy Rohn For 25 years, Montgomery County’s Rustic Roads Program has protected the historic and scenic roadways that reflect the county’s agricultural character and rural origins. An update to the […]
November 27, 2023 Suburban Wasteland: Punk Culture in Montgomery County from 1977 to 2002
History Conversations REWIND Since the late 1970s, the punk rock subculture has thrived in Montgomery County. The time between the opening (1977) and closing (2002) dates of Yesterday & Today Records—a […]
December 5, 2023 History Conversations: Montgomery County, Then and Now: A Conversation on Recreating the Historical Photographs of Lewis Reed
with Jeanne Gartner, Barry Gartner, and Sarah HedlundJoin the creators of Montgomery History’s upcoming online exhibit, “Montgomery County, Then and Now: Photography of Lewis Reed and Barry Gartner” as they […]
December 19, 2023 History Conversations: Legacy of Slavery Project at the Maryland State Archives
with Hannah LaneThe Maryland State Colonization Society was a former auxiliary of the American Colonization Society (ACS) that recruited free and manumitted black Marylanders to settle in Liberia. From 1832 to […]
December 25, 2023 History Conversations REWIND: Fort Frederick: Three Centuries of History
with Robert AmbroseFort Frederick was built during the French and Indian War to protect Maryland from attack, but it would play an active part of American history over the course […]