Maryland’s first State Song Advisory Group issued a report this week recommending changes to the state’s official anthem, “Maryland, My Maryland,” which critics say is divisive for its celebration of ...

Here are the lyrics to the state song, "Maryland! My Maryland!": I The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland! His torch is at thy temple door, Maryland! Avenge the patriotic gore That flecked the ...

Maryland’s state song, which alludes to President Abraham Lincoln as a “tyrant” and a “despot,” has been repealed. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan signed a bill into law on Tuesday that strips “Maryland, ...

For almost eight decades, the official state song of Maryland has been a Confederate ballad whose lyrics call Unionists "Northern scum" and President Abraham Lincoln a "despot" and a "tyrant." For ...

The University of Maryland's marching band will no longer play a Confederate-era song. Lloyd Fox The University of Maryland marching band will no longer play “Maryland, My Maryland” because of its ...

Ben Meiselman had no idea what he was singing. He was 9 years old, for heaven's sake. Onstage with his classmates for a fourth-grade assembly, the boy innocently denounced Abraham Lincoln as a "despot ...