Author John Muller presents Lost History: Frederick Douglass in Caroline County, Maryland at the Denton Library

Denton, MD – Join local history enthusiasts and community leaders to celebrate the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial at the Caroline County Public Library in Denton, on February 9, 2019 at 1:30pm. Local historian John Muller will offer a special presentation detailing a previously unknown visit Douglass made to Caroline County in the fall of 1883. Don’t […]

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Washington College to Confer Honorary Degree on Frederick Douglass on February 23, 2018

On the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birth, Washington College is posthumously awarding the famed abolitionist orator, author, and statesman the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Douglass’s great-great-great grandson, Kenneth Morris, co-founder and president of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives, and David Blight, a professor of history at Yale University and director of the Gilder […]

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