Abstract Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. was the 60th governor of Maryland in from 2003 to 2007., with Michael S. Steele as his lieutenant governor, and served from 2003 to 2007. The collection contains materials spanning Bob Ehrlich's career in public office. It is chiefly composed of documents, photographs, and videos from 1987 to present, including letters to constituents, newspaper clippings, and televised news reports relating to his political work. The collection also includes a variety of trophies and...

Abstract The Maryland State Board of Education had its beginnings with the Act of 1865, enacted by the General Assembly, and providing a “uniform system of free public schools for the State of Maryland.” The supervision and control of the first public system in Maryland was vested in a State Board of Education, consisting of high ranking political officials. New laws were enacted in the years 1868, 1870, 1904, and 1916, which shaped the organizational structure of the Board. The members of the Board...

Abstract Bill Urban founded the Baltimore Alternative newspaper in 1986, committing the paper to extensive coverage of the AIDS epidemic, the Baltimore, Maryland LGBTQAI+ community, and to their civil and privacy rights. Urban was a prominent activist and educator who appeared on multiple news segments and before a multitude of audiences. Urban passed from complications related to AIDS in 1992.This collection, which dates from 1964 to 2000, contains photographs, letters and cards,...

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Robert Ward is a Baltimore, Maryland native, Towson alum, and an award-winning novelist, journalist, screenwriter and showrunner. This collection contains books, articles, screenplays, and movies, as well as personal and professional letters.