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Listen to recordings of lectures, book talks, panels, and other programs on Maine, New England, American history from Maine Historical Society. These podcasts allow everyone to enjoy, learn from, and reflect on history and its relevance today.
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Black Salts: Black Sailors in Maine and New England
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Food of the Future: How Social Reformers Created a Vegetarian Crusade in America
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Maine's Great Opera Divas
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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Remembering Al Hawkes and Event Records
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Queer Voices in American Music
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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From Exclusion to Inclusion: Chinese in New England, 1798-present
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May 20, 2024 |
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Maine and the West Indies Trade
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May 17, 2024 |
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"Sweet and Beautiful Souls: Longfellow and the Concord Writers" with Richard Smith
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May 12, 2024 |
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"A Long, Long Time Ago: The Major Rock and Roll Concerts in Southern Maine, 1955-1977," a book talk with Ford Reiche
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May 09, 2024 |
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Historian's Forum: the Maine economy since 1973, Part III
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Historian's Forum: the Maine economy since 1973, Part II
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Historian's Forum: the Maine economy since 1973, Part I
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Southern Maine’s Historic Waterfront Communities *CODE RED SERIES*
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Tragic Betrayal: The Story of Robert Peary and Minik Wallace
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Spectulation Nation
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Bring Back the Pollinators
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Climate, Justice, and the Future of Maine's Environment
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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"A Man to be Thankful for"? Louis Agassiz and His Contemporaries
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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When the Island Had Fish, a book talk with Janna Malamud Smith
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Portland Maine: Connections Across Time, a book talk with Paul Ledman
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Wit and Wisdom, a book talk with Joan Radner
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Fishing for Solutions: Climate Change and the Seafood Industry
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Tales (and a Tail) in the Return of Elizabeth Oakes Smith to Literary History
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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The Nation That Never Was
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Evangeline Reconsidered
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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CODE RED: discussion with exhibit co-curators Tilly Laskey and Darren Ranco
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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The Unwilling Architects Initiative: Interpreting Untold Stories in a Small Historic House Museum
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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FINAL MISSION The North Woods
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Victoria Mansion
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Looming Trends: 18th-Century Patterned Silks in New England
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the 19th-Century United States
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Songs of Ships and Sailors
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
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May 17, 2022 |
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Peaks Island: Past and Present
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Whence these stories? History in Longfellow's Poetry
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Green Acre: An "Experiment" in Eliot, Maine in the 1890s and Beyond
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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The Unlikeliness of It All, Part 1: An Insider's Perspective: A Small Maine Town's History of Resilience, Transformation, Collaboration, Immigration, and its Global Singularity
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Trans & Nonbinary Adventures in 19th century New England
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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A Man, A Horse-Drawn Wagon, and a Moving Panorama: The Travels of L. E. Emerson
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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The Wreck of the Steamship Portland: Rediscovering the Titanic of New England
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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"All Power is Inherent in the People:" A Discussion of Maine Voting Rights
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Bigfoot in Maine
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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The Atlantic Black Box Project
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Ghosts of Pineland
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Who Gets To Tell Story?
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Longfellow and the Occult
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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The Know-Nothings Menace: When Hate, Fear, and Prejudice Ruled Maine and America
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Cooking is Community: A Look at Historic Maine Community Cookbooks
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Major Episodes of Colonial Racism in Maine State Indian History and Policy
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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MHS HISTORIAN'S FORUM: Ulster Scots Migrations in Early America
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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Nineteenth-Century Black Politics in Maine: Historical Research and Legacies
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Panic in the Senate: The Fight Over the Second Bank of the United States and the American Presidency
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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200 Years of Jews in Maine
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Murky Overhead
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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From Chinese Laundress to Mother of the Year: Bringing the Story of Toy Len Goon Beyond the Model Minority Myth
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Up for Grabs: Timber Pirates, Lumber Barons, and the Battles Over Maine's Public Lands
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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The Coming of the Invisible People
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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The Life of a Klansman
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Historic Taverns and Tea Rooms of Maine
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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"Doing One's First Works Over": Imagining a New America
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
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May 21, 2021 |
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It's A Family Affair: A Personal Conversation about Black History in Maine
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May 18, 2021 |
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Maine's Bicentennial: Looking Backward and Forward - A Conversation with Colin Woodard
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May 14, 2021 |
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Fighting Time - a talk with Isaac Knapper and Amy Banks
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May 12, 2021 |
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The Village Blacksmith
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Off to Maine: Early Sportsmen in the Maine Woods
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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REDACT: A panel discussion on the redaction of Maine’s 1820 Constitution
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Wabanaki Place: Language and Landscape
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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The Insurgent Delegate - book launch
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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The Role & Purpose of Historical Commemoration in the 21st Century
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Talk & Pop-Up Exhibition: Capt. William G. Kair and The Scandinavians of Maine
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Involuntary Americans: Scottish Prisoners in Early Colonial Maine
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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The Land that Sustains Us: Stories from the Field
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Nov 18, 2018 |
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Child Hunger in Maine: Moving Towards a Solution
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Book Talk: Maine Roads to Gettysburg
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Book Talk: Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War by Lisa Brooks
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Lives of Consequence with Patricia Wall
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Book Talk with Richard Rubin, author of The Last of the Doughboys and Back Over There
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May 23, 2017 |
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The World War I Color Crisis: Dyes, Chemistry and Clothing
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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A Conversation with Lucas St. Clair
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Mar 08, 2017 |
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Creating Acadia National Park: the Biography of George Bucknam Dorr Book Talk
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Nov 22, 2016 |
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Written in Granite: Acadia's Changeable Histories
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Walking Through History: Portland, Maine on Foot Book Launch
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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Book Talk: Maine Nursing: Interviews and History on Caring and Competence
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Jul 19, 2016 |
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The Great Portland Fire: Panel Discussion Featuring Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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Book Talk: The Phantom Punch
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Jun 05, 2016 |
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Artist Talk: Pigeon's Mainer Project: street art meets history
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Mar 22, 2016 |
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Book Event: French and Indian Wars in Maine
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Nov 10, 2015 |
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Book Event: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland, The Fireside Poet of Maine
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Nov 03, 2015 |
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Post Mortem Mourning Practices in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century New England
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Jun 16, 2015 |
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The Emergence of Portland: Early Homes and Early Maps
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Jun 09, 2015 |
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A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Reflections on Editing the Historical Atlas of Maine : A Scholarly Epic
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May 26, 2015 |
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Portland's Irish in the Civil War
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May 19, 2015 |
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Maine During the Civil War
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May 12, 2015 |
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Free and Responsible Government: The Long Shadow of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
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Apr 28, 2015 |
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Annual Maine History Maker Award: Honoring Vincent Veroneau, President and CEO of J.B. Brown & Sons
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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Hold On: The Privilege of Keeping Old Things Safe
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Apr 18, 2015 |
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
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Apr 05, 2015 |
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What's Laundry Got to do With it?: Caring for the Body in the 19th Century United States
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Mar 31, 2015 |
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Ed Muskie: Made in Maine, 1914-1960
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Mar 24, 2015 |
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A Special Evening with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
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Mar 17, 2015 |
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The Night the Sky Turned Red: The Story of the Great Portland, Maine, Fire of July 4, 1866, as Told by Those Who Lived Through It
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons from Maine's Greatest Generation
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Mar 03, 2015 |
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Portland Food: The Culinary Capital of Maine
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Feb 24, 2015 |
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Student Spotlight Talk: Defining a Nuisance: Pollution, Science, and Environmental Politics on Maine's Androscoggin River
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Feb 17, 2015 |
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African Americans & the U.S. Government During and After the Civil War
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Feb 10, 2015 |
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Sanitary Concerns: Portlander Harriet Eaton, State Relief Work, and the Fight over Federal Benevolence during the Civil War
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Feb 03, 2015 |
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Everyone's Town: Thornton Wilder's Legacy
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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Portland's Chinese Restaurants
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Jan 20, 2015 |
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The Irish of Portland, Maine: A History of Forest City Hibernians
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Jan 13, 2015 |
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Highlights of MHS's Sheet Music Collection: Maine Fiddler Mellie Dunham
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Jan 06, 2015 |
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
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Dec 30, 2014 |
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Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science
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Dec 23, 2014 |
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Book Event: The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods
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Dec 16, 2014 |
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Book Event: Another City Upon A Hill
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Dec 09, 2014 |
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The Shadow and the Substance: Civil War Photography
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Dec 02, 2014 |
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Book Event: The Last of the Doughboys
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Nov 25, 2014 |
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Student Spotlight: A Land Without Peace: Indians, Colonists, Speculators, and the Struggle for Maine, 1688-1763
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Nov 18, 2014 |
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Student Spotlight: When the Confederates Terrorized Maine: The Battle of Portland Harbor
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Nov 11, 2014 |
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Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
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Nov 04, 2014 |
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Book Event: Waltzing with Bracey
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Oct 28, 2014 |
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Power to the People: The Story of Rural Electrification in America
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Oct 21, 2014 |
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Book Event: The Reverend Jacob Bailey Maine Loyalist: For God, King, Country, and for Self
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Oct 14, 2014 |
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Book Event: When We Were the Kennedys
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Oct 07, 2014 |
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Book Event: John McDonald's Maine Trivia: A Storyteller's Useful Guide to Useless Information
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Sep 30, 2014 |
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Book Event: Maine: The Wilder Half of New England
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Sep 23, 2014 |
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On the Waterfront: Heritage, Re-use, and Economic Development
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Sep 16, 2014 |
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Gateways to Portland: Rebuilding Veterans Memorial and Martin's Point Bridges
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Sep 02, 2014 |
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The Civil War of 1812
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Aug 26, 2014 |
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The Nature of Lost Things
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Aug 19, 2014 |
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Downtown Corridors: Franklin and Spring Streets
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Aug 12, 2014 |
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Longfellow's Shadow: A reading of poems by Wesley McNair and Betsy Sholl
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Aug 05, 2014 |
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Public Parks: Care and Cultivation of Fort Williams Park, Cape Elizabeth
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Jul 29, 2014 |