Rona Kobell is a staff writer at the Chesapeake Bay Journal.
Tacky's Revolt
Historian Vincent Brown's new book examines the 18th-century slave insurrection, arguing it was really four different wars at once.
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She Came To Slay
The deeply human Harriet Tubman who emerges in Dunbar's book was exhausted, frustrated—and heroic.
Hemp Comes Home
Legal hemp has returned to Kentucky. Will the Feds step aside and let the industry flourish?
Oysters vs. the State
The fight to save a California oyster farm from the National Park Service
Privatizing the Chesapeake
After seeing its oyster fishery almost depleted, Maryland finally introduces aquaculture and private leasing.