Exploring our nation’s rich history in innovative ways, the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience draws scholars and citizens, college students and national leaders to a unique 18th-century town on the Chesapeake Bay. Our guiding principle is that now more than ever, a wider understanding of our shared past is fundamental to the continuing success of America’s democratic experiment.
Free Audio Tour: Journey Into Chestertown's Past
The History on the Waterfront multimedia audio tour offers a walk back in time into an era when the streets of this port town bustled with revolutionaries and convicts, slave traders, and heroes of the Underground Railroad. Click for more...
Summer Oral History Workshop - June 2012
Looking for something exciting to do this summer? This June, the C.V. Starr Center will offer the third annual Washington College Oral History Summer Workshop. Explore the region. Learn how to record, edit and archive life story interviews. Click for more...
American Pictures 2012 James McBride, May 12
Acclaimed memoirist, novelist and screenwriter James McBride is also a saxophonist who tours with his own jazz/R&B band. His American Pictures talk at the Smithsonian hinges on an iconic concert photograph of singer James Brown. Click for more...
