One of the people who tried to wrestle Maryland’s history into a new state song is U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who served as a state senator representing Montgomery County for nearly a decade ...

For 82 years, Marylanders have listened to a state song that is a bloody call to arms in support of the Confederacy. Now, the tune is likely to lose its honored status. Maryland lawmakers are poise… ...

The state’s House of Delegates voted Monday to repeal “Maryland, My Maryland” as the state song. It’s the closest legislators have come to removing the pro-Confederate song from the state ...

Maryland, though a slave-holding state, did not secede from the Union and attempted to maintain neutrality during the Civil War. The song was a full-throated defense of the Confederacy.

A portrait of James Ryder Randall, who wrote the Maryland state song in 1861. (John Gillis/Associated Press) STATE SONGS are the kind of artifacts that tend to get attention only when they cause ...

"Maryland, My Maryland," set to the traditional seasonal tune of "O, Tannenbaum," was written as a poem in 1861 by James Ryder Randall and adopted as the state song in 1939.

And state Sen. Ronald N. Young (D-Frederick) has pre-filed legislation to repeal Randall’s “Maryland, My Maryland” as the state song and replace it with John T. White’s “Maryland, ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A bill to revise the state song of Maryland to remove Civil War-era references to “Northern scum” and other phrases deemed offensive has stalled in the state House, a ...

Maryland can likewise address its own racist history by removing its state song, as Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones has urged. During the Civil War, Maryland was a “border state.” ...

Maryland’s state song is a step closer to being silenced. The Maryland Senate voted unanimously on Friday to do away with “Maryland, My Maryland,” just a few days after the state’s house ...

Maryland did not adopt “Maryland, My Maryland” as our State song until 1939 – a time when Maryland was sadly among our nation’s segregated “Jim Crow” states. Some of my friends grew up in segregated ...

In 1939, a Confederate call to arms became Maryland's state song. If you listen to all the verses, you realize the official song of the free state is an ode to the Confederacy.