Mourning the passing of professor Joel M. Jones

A UMBC founding faculty member & American studies professor

Joel M. Jones, one of the original founding faculty members at UMBC (1966 – 1969), died at his home in Durango, Colorado, on July 13, 2016, following an 18-month battle with brain cancer. 

Posted: August 31, 2016, 12:01 PM

AMST Alum Winona Caesar ('09) featured in UMBC Magazine

Tales of Grit and Greatness!

Winona Caesar ’09, American studies, gave the audience insight into a post-graduation journey where determination to succeed has led her to become chair of the Megaphone Project (an organization...

Posted: March 3, 2016, 10:09 AM

Baltimore Traces: Communities In Transition

Featuring UMBC Students!

The Marc Steiner Show hosted a roundtable with the UMBC students who produced the Baltimore Traces series. With: Christina Kwegan, American Studies student at UMBC; Calvin Perry, American Studies...

Posted: March 3, 2016, 10:07 AM

Call for Applicants: Asst Grants Manager-MD Historical Trust

Deadline: December 8

The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT), the State's historic preservation office, located within the Maryland Department of Planning (MDP), is seeking an enthusiastic and energetic individual to fill...

Posted: December 3, 2015, 1:28 AM

AMST student and City Paper intern Nate Croll

on racist vandalism and Confederate monuments in Baltimore

Someone vandalized a sculpture of a pregnant black woman at the Copycat Building, scrawling "nigger" repeatedly across her belly, her arms, her chest, her legs—and the incident has become...

Posted: November 24, 2015, 11:10 PM

Mill Stories: Deindustrialization as Public History

Michelle Stefano & Bill Shewbridge featured in Cross Ties

Public historians at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) accepted the challenge of collecting video oral histories of workers associated with Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point,...

Posted: November 21, 2015, 7:42 PM

The Last days of The Hour Haus

Droneberg & Goodrich on the end of the Hour Haus era

At midnight on Thursday, July 30th, 2015, the final amps and drum kits were reluctantly lugged out of Station North's longtime music rehearsal space, The Hour Haus.  After 25 years as a music...

Posted: July 31, 2015, 6:15 PM