More 1812 Bicentennial / Sailabration News
Mingled throughout the thousands of visitors who flocked to the city this past weekend for the Star-Spangled Sailabration's ships, cannons...
With a giant flag of 15 stars and stripes as a backdrop inside Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, a celebratory concert Sunday night drew a packed...
Cars began lining up before 7 a.m. to get into the parking lots at M&T Bank Stadium for the shuttle bus ride to Fort McHenry and the...
It sure doesn't look like other vessels docked in Annapolis. The HMS Bounty, a wooden movie star ship with its tallest mast at 115 feet,...
The Pride of Baltimore Memorial, which had been marred by 26 years' worth of exposure to the elements and recent vandalism, has undergone...
Statewide events recall Maryland's pivotal role in the War of 1812
The plane flies a mere five feet above the ground, gaining speed until it reaches a velocity of 200 mph. It lurches skyward at a 45-degree...
For the better part of a decade, Jill Crowther-Peters has played the role of the widowed seamstress who stitched the Star-Spangled Banner,...
As the schooner Pride of Baltimore II headed up the bay from Norfolk Tuesday, the 1,300-square-foot American flag rippling from its main...
Runs through Tuesday at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Fort McHenry, Martin State Airport and other locations.
It took 200 years, but the oft-forgotten War of 1812 got some attention Wednesday.
Baltimore will be getting some face time Thursday morning on NBC's "Today" show with Al Roker doing his weather cut-ins from the Inner...
For folks who want to partake in Sailabration by water this weekend, expect tight quarters.
It’s a much-battered part of the Baltimore Harbor scenery, bobbing in the water just above the Key Bridge on the way to the Inner...
Keeping up to 1 million spectators safe on land and water a major challenge
Spectators won't have to stand in the drizzle to watch the sails in the Baltimore harbor.
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post to The Baltimore Sun's health blog...
Ships, planes and re-enactments commemorate war
The most famous piece of music about a conflict in 1812 has nothing to do with what is dubbed the second war of American independence.
Baltimore's Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, site of a key battle in the War of 1812 and birthplace of "The Star Spangled...
No one calls the War of 1812 America's finest hour. But it had its moments.
Nearly two dozen companies will sponsor Maryland's bicentennial commemoration of the War of 1812, contributing more than $5 million, the...