BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black ... and so he actually creates almanacs charting the stars," said Dr. Ida Jones, an archivist and historian at ...

On August 19, 1791, Benjamin Banneker wrote a lengthy letter to Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, in which "having taken up my pen in order to direct to you as a present, a copy of an ...

click image for close-up The cover of Benjamin Banneker's 1795 Almanac features a woodcut portrait of the author, scientist, mathematician, farmer, astronomer, publisher and urban planner ...