maine history
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2022
Our View: Maine should recognize inherent rights of Wabanaki tribes
Tribal sovereignty was bargained away unfairly more than 40 years ago, and the Indigenous people in the state continue to suffer for it.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2022
Black History Month: Both Portland and Maine complicit in economics of slavery
Via trade with the West Indies, the labor of enslaved Africans built our state and its largest city.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2022
How Mainer Edmund Muskie’s tirade a half-century ago may have cost him the White House
One of the most successful dirty tricks in American political history wiped away the presidential hopes of Rumford's favorite son in 1972.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2022
Town History Series returns remotely for 18th installment
Patten Free Library will stream five presentations on local history starting Saturday, Jan. 22.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2022
Maine Voices: USM center will build on historian’s legacy by strengthening labor education
L.D. 1816 would create the Dr. Charles A. Scontras Labor Center in honor of a man who grew up in Old Orchard and began his working life in a shoe shop.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2022
Chances are nobody will ever again see Maine’s first big movie, viewed worldwide a century ago
'The Rider of the King Log,' by well-known Auburn writer Holman Day, featured log drives, dam explosions, romance and more, but it has utterly vanished since its debut in 1921
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PublishedNovember 21, 2021
The View From Here: Native history is American history
The new film ‘Bounty’ places a genocidal policy against the Penobscot Nation in the context of Revolutionary New England.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2021
The Maine Millennial: Tribes still fighting for their rights in Maine
A proposed state law would undo some of the damage that has been done to Native people by colonization.
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PublishedNovember 14, 2021
‘Up for Grabs’ chronicles the complicated history of Maine’s Public Reserved Lands
The book, written by former Maine Audubon director Thomas Urquhart, is comprehensive and lively.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2021
The humble Farmer: This ought to set the dentist’s teeth on edge
To cap off the day, I wound up feeding a visiting dog our supper. At least he’s a good boy.
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