ST. MICHAELS — Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s new exhibit shows changing perspectives of the Chesapeake Bay’s relationship with the Underground Railroad by centering stories of freedom seekers. You ...

“In ‘Sailing to Freedom’, guests will meet figures like Henry ‘Box’ Brown, who escaped to freedom in 1849 by arranging to have himself mailed in a wooden crate to abolitionists in Philadelphia. This ...

One of the most arresting American images from the pre-Civil War era is a photograph of a man’s hand, palm forward, with the letters “SS” seared into its flesh. The hand belonged to a New England ...

More than 600 nautical miles off the coast of California, 29-year-old Oliver Widger is reinventing his life with his cat, a sailboat and a dream. “What would I tell myself before embarking on this ...