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 ...

a copy of an Almanac, which I have calculated for the succeeding year, I was unexpectedly and unavoidably led thereto. This calculation is the production of my arduous study, in this my advanced ...

BALTIMORE -- Baltimore County native Benjamin Banneker's contributions to Black history are stories of resilience, activism, and ingenuity. Banneker was born on a farm in 1731 in Oella ...