History Conversations
Our popular History Conversations program features virtual lectures on Tuesday afternoons, covering a wide variety of local history topics. Each lecture is live-streamed via Zoom and then posted here for a week on the Monday following. Click read more to learn more and register.
This Week
September 7, 2026 History Conversations REWIND | Revisiting the Du-Drop Inn: When Emory Grove was the Center of Black Culture in Montgomery County
With Gene Meyer | Pre-recorded virtual eventGene Meyer has spent decades exploring every nook and cranny of Maryland from the Eastern Shore to Appalachia — first for The Washington Post […]
Next Week
September 15, 2026 History Conversations | The Early History of Radio in Maryland
with Brian Belanger | Radio in Maryland began as early as 1900, when Reginald Fessenden launched experiments of the feasibility of voice transmission at his facility at Cobb Island. Baltimore got […]
Previously on History Conversationsoul
August 27, 2026 History Conversations | If These Shelves Could Talk — the Bethesda Public Library Turns 100
with Hank Levine | Virtual Event | August 27, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. | The Bethesda Public Library (now named for former Congresswoman Connie Morella) is neither the oldest nor the […]