In 1629 George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, applied to King Charles I for a charter to found what was to become the Province of Maryland. Tobacco had proven to be a profitable enterprise in ...

On April 21, 1649, the Maryland Assembly passed the Maryland Toleration Act, providing for freedom of worship for all Christians. The key section of the act read: And whereas the inforceing of the ...

In his Lyceum Address, a young Abraham Lincoln praised the Founding Fathers for creating “a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, ...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1 Papist Royalists -- 2 Damnable Doctrines -- 3 The Calvert Code -- 4 Locke's Intolerables -- 5 No Papists -- 6 Sovereign Jealousies -- 7 ...

Children in Maryland public schools half a century ago learned about the arrival of the Catholic colonists on the Ark and the Dove in 1634 and the famous Act of Toleration of 1649, granting the ...

I must take issue with the Rev. Richard Bucci’s Jan. 9 letter, “Religious freedom began in Maryland, not Rhode Island,” which attempts to refute Daniel Harrington’s earlier Commentary pieces on Roger ...

A LITTLE more than 20 years ago, as a rising junior at the University of Northern Iowa, I moved in with my first gay flatmate. There would be two others in the coming years, during grad school in ...