Maryland in the American Civil War a majority of the legislature, wished to remain in the Union, but did not want to be involved in a war against their southern neighbors, and sought to prevent a military response by Lincoln to the South's secession. After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, many citizens began forming local militias, determined to prevent a future slave uprising. The first bloodshed of the Civil War occurred in Maryland. Anxious about the risk of secessionists capturing Washington, D.C., given that the capital was bordered by Virginia, and preparing for war with the South, the federal government requested armed volunteers
Humanities DC collection. List of state humanities councils Humanities DC Humanities DC (formerly known as the Humanities Council of Washington, DC) is a local, non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities based in Washington, DC. Humanities DC was founded in 1980 to fund and produce public humanities programming in the District of Columbia. It is one of 56 state humanities councils founded in the wake of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965. The Humanities DC office is located at 925 U Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Founded in 1980 as the D.C. Community Humanities Council,