Hosted by Heritage Frederick The Williams Observatory at Hood College is a historical structure listed on the National Register and a local landmark for early STEM education for women in Frederick.  The college is looking to rehabilitate the structure to make it a working astronomical observatory once more while also converting it to house the ... Read more

Join us for a talk by Mallory Huard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History, Hood College on the topic of "Home Sewn, Home Grown: Domesticity and Capitalism in Mid-19th Century Frederick." In this talk, Mallory will explore how women’s unpaid domestic labor helped support the emergence of industrialized capitalism in Frederick County. In the early-mid 1800s, men’s ... Read more