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Editor's Note: The Catch Volume Vi, Catherine Schmitt
Yankees On The Western Front: New England In France During World War I, Steven Alboum
Yankees On The Western Front: New England In France During World War I, Steven Alboum
Maine History
On April 6, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would enter World War 1 on the side of the Allies, a move that would mobilize the American army and propel the 26th National Guard Division onto the world stage. Originally comprised only of boys from the New England states, most of whom had barely left home and had never fired a rifle in combat, this brave unit was put to the test on the Western Front against the Kaiser’s army, an enemy who had been at war for three years. The 26th was the first American military …
Maine’S Marines: The Search For Remembrance Of The Great War, J. Michael Miller
Maine’S Marines: The Search For Remembrance Of The Great War, J. Michael Miller
Maine History
Of the 32,083 Maine men who served in World War I, approximately twenty-four did so as enlistees in the United States Marine Corps. While Maine marines at that time represented only a small percentage of servicemen, they participated in some of the most significant battles in the war, battles that boosted the morale of the Allied forces in Europe, bolstered military recruitment efforts in the United States, and, by many estimates, helped turn the tide of the war. In the following article, author J. Michael Miller offers a remembrance of some of these marines by naming them and providing an …
Journal Cover And Table Of Contents, Maine Historical Society
Journal Cover And Table Of Contents, Maine Historical Society
Maine History
Cover, Editors and Editorial Board and Table of Contents with author's names
Editor's Note, Eileen Hagerman
Editor's Note, Eileen Hagerman
Maine History
Overview of the contents of this issue of Maine History by its Editor.
How Maine Viewed The War, 1914–1917 (1940 Reprint), Edwin Costrell
How Maine Viewed The War, 1914–1917 (1940 Reprint), Edwin Costrell
Maine History
Originally published in 1940, as the United States once more evaluated possible involvement in global conflict, How Maine Viewed the War, 1914– 1917 looks backward to Maine on the eve of World War I. Author Edwin Stanley Costrell (1913–2010), through a study of newspaper coverage of the years 1914 to 1917, provides a thought-provoking account of a Maine people wrestling with ambivalence over US involvement in the Great War; of a citizenry seeking to reconcile ethnic diversity with national unity; and of a nation divided over pacifism, militarism, isolationism, and internationalism and increasingly moving toward war with Germany. Costrell was …
From The Collections Of The Maine Historical Society, Jamie Kingman Rice
From The Collections Of The Maine Historical Society, Jamie Kingman Rice
Maine History
Discussion of the Maine Historical Society's pamphlet collection.
Book Reviews, Matthel Costello, Sean Cox, Laura Cowan, Dale Potts
Book Reviews, Matthel Costello, Sean Cox, Laura Cowan, Dale Potts
Maine History
Reviews of the following books: Unearthed: Storied Artifacts and Remarkable Predecessors of the Saint Joseph’s College Campus by Steven L. Bridge; Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr by Ronald H. Epp; The Human Shore: Seacoasts in Historyby John R. Gillis; Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston by Daniel G. Payne.
“There Are Folks Comin’ After Us That Will Need Trees”: Progressive Era Conservation, The Woods Tradition, And Maine Writer Holman Francis Day, Dale E. Potts
Maine History
Throughout his novels, Maine author Holman Francis Day maintained the importance of both the conservation of timber and the cultural conservation of Maine’s rural communities. Day wrote his novels in a Progressive Era climate permeated by a wise-use ideology. The point for Day, however, was not whether resources should be used, but by whom; his approach emphasized Maine’s resources for Maine’s people and industry. As a writer of fiction, Day balanced the needs of the people of Maine with a concern for the natural resources that made the state unique. Dale Potts is an Assistant Professor of History at South …
Wood Pulp And The Emergence Of A New Industrial Landscape In Maine, 1880 To 1930, John Clark, Deryck Holdwworth
Wood Pulp And The Emergence Of A New Industrial Landscape In Maine, 1880 To 1930, John Clark, Deryck Holdwworth
Maine History
Between the 1880s and 1930s, investors developed over seventy pulp and paper mill sites to exploit the woods and inland waters of Maine. Authors John Clark and Deryck Holdsworth tracked the changing historical geographies of papermaking in Maine during this period through an analysis of data from Lockwood’s Directory, the industry’s leading monitor of investment. They also mapped mill sites, noting their changing capacity and shifts in product types as consumer needs evolved. Their work shows how the development of a railroad network helped facilitate a shift from smaller mills at coastal sites to larger mills at inland settings, which …
Editor's Note, Eileen Hagerman
A Century Of National Park Conflict: Class, Geography, And The Changing Values Of Conservation Discourse In Maine, Adam Auerback
A Century Of National Park Conflict: Class, Geography, And The Changing Values Of Conservation Discourse In Maine, Adam Auerback
Maine History
Conservation interests have been promoting the creation of a national park in Maine’s North Woods for over one hundred years. Past park proposals featured Mt. Katahdin, the Allagash River, and the greater North Woods region, and each inspired fierce debate amongst Mainers. Most recently, Maine’s North Woods have been gripped by a fervent debate surrounding a proposal by Elliotsville Plantation, Inc. to create a small national park to the east of Baxter State Park. What can the national park controversies of northern Maine’s past teach us about the most recent debate? In northern Maine, the national park controversies played out …
A “Mossy And Moosey Place”: Thoreau’S Maine Wilderness, Megan Vhay
A “Mossy And Moosey Place”: Thoreau’S Maine Wilderness, Megan Vhay
Maine History
Megan Vhay graduated from the University of Maine, Orono, in 2016 with a BS in Wildlife Ecology. Her adventures working as a field technician include mapping invasive plant species in eastern Washington, searching for goshawks in southeastern Idaho, and trapping wild turkeys in northwest Oklahoma. Megan is interested in human dimensions of wildlife management and believes that good communication between natural resource professionals and the public is the strongest foundation for the future of wild places. Megan plans to pursue her master’s degree in a wildlife-related field in the near future, with the goal of becoming a wildlife biologist at …
Rising In The East: Order And Identity In The Mapping Of A Maine Town During The Federal Period, Kendrick Price Daggett
Rising In The East: Order And Identity In The Mapping Of A Maine Town During The Federal Period, Kendrick Price Daggett
Maine History
In 1794, the General Court in Boston passed a resolve requiring all towns in Massachusetts and the District of Maine to submit plans that would aid in the creation of an official state map. The legislature’s directive was part of the ongoing nationwide quest to establish order and identity in America following the Treaty of Paris and the break with Britain. Never a foregone conclusion, the evolving national identity was born through a process of invention and was the offspring of contention and debate among various segments of society. This article analyzes the map of Georgetown, Maine drawn by Mark …
Neighbors And Fences: Land, Conflict, And Community On A Maine Island During The Eighteenth Century, Patrick W. O'Bannon
Neighbors And Fences: Land, Conflict, And Community On A Maine Island During The Eighteenth Century, Patrick W. O'Bannon
Maine History
A 1794 court case, Grinnell v. Williams, provides a unique insight into the acquisition, division, and protection of land claims in late-eighteenth-century Islesboro, Maine. The remarkable set of depositions associated with the case highlights the significance of family and community norms in the establishment of a Maine island town. Patrick O’Bannon is president of the Islesboro Historical Society. He is Northeast Regional Manager for Gray & Pape, Inc., a historic preservation and heritage management consulting firm, and has more than thirty years of experience in the field. He received his PhD from the University of California at San Diego. Thanks …
Slaves And Free Blacks In Mid-Eighteenth To Mid-Nineteenth Century Cape Neddick, Maine, Bryan C. Weare
Slaves And Free Blacks In Mid-Eighteenth To Mid-Nineteenth Century Cape Neddick, Maine, Bryan C. Weare
Maine History
In coastal southern Maine, a number of towns people enslaved others in the years through the end of the American Revolution. The height of slavery in the region was the period just before the American Revolution. During the revolution, attitudes changed dramatically leading to emancipation in Massachusetts and what is now Maine. This article explores the lives of Cape Neddick’s early black community, before and after freedom, using sparse public documents, contemporary newspaper accounts, local histories, and the unpublished diary of farmer Joseph Weare. The diary provides evidence of how a prominent slaveholder’s grandson frequently cooperated with a neighboring free …
Book Reviews, William David Barry, Sally Hermansen, Mazie Hough, David Raymond
Book Reviews, William David Barry, Sally Hermansen, Mazie Hough, David Raymond
Maine History
Reviews of the following books: Time-Line of Selected Highlights of Maine Labor History: 1636-2015 by Charles A. Scontras; Historical Atlas of Maine edited by Stephen J. Hornsby and Richard W. Judd, cartographic designer Michael J. Hermann; Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine's Fight for Woman Suffrage by Anne B. Gass; Rally the Scattered Believers: Northern New England's Religious Geography by Shelby M. Balik
The Mackerel Fishermen, Avery B. Stone
Awakening, Angela M. Waldron
Editor's Note, Leonore Hildebrandt
Belfast Maine: Irish Identity And Acceptance In A Small City On Penobscot Bay, Kay Retzlaff
Belfast Maine: Irish Identity And Acceptance In A Small City On Penobscot Bay, Kay Retzlaff
Maine History
Retzlaff’s article examines how stereotypes were applied to Irish newcomers in early Belfast, Maine, even by “old-timers,” who also descended from Irish immigrants. Neither shared ancestry nor shared religion removed the stigma of these stereotypes, which complicated Irish identity in Belfast during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as Protestant and Catholic newcomers alike sought to benefit from their ties to the Irish community while separating themselves from their Irish tropes. Kay Retzlaff is a professor of English at the University of Maine at Augusta. She earned her PhD from the University of Maine. Her MA and BA are from the …
“I Made Fresh Pursuit After Him”: Law, Order, And Sexual Misconduct On The Maine Frontier, Abby Chandler
“I Made Fresh Pursuit After Him”: Law, Order, And Sexual Misconduct On The Maine Frontier, Abby Chandler
Maine History
Contemporary observers and modern historians alike have often por[1]trayed early Maine as a wild frontier with doubtful sexual morals where colonists routinely challenged all known forms of authority. Nevertheless, a full examination of colonial Maine’s sexual misconduct court trials demonstrates that local justices of the peace were ultimately able to draw on longstanding English traditions of legal compromise and mediation to both manage their colonists and build a functional civil society in the face of ongoing political instability. One particular series of sexual misconduct trials, spanning from the colony’s origins in the early seventeenth century to its maturing in the …
The Changing Nature Of Abortion In Rural Maine, 1904–1931, Mazie Hough
The Changing Nature Of Abortion In Rural Maine, 1904–1931, Mazie Hough
Maine History
Between 1904 and 1915, Maine courts tried four doctors on the charge of homicide related to abortions. These four trials drew widespread attention in the press and served as a warning not only to doctors who might be tempted to perform abortions, but to rural community members who might want to assist the women seeking the procedure. The abortion trials successfully warned and disciplined both rural doctors and community members. Once sympathetic to the needs of rural women who wanted to terminate their pregnancies, the rural community members realized the dangers of doing so and withdrew their support. As a …
Book Reviews, Matthew Mckenzie, Kenneth T. Palmer, Benjamin Wyman, Joseph Miller, Tom Mccord, Charles P.M. Outwin
Book Reviews, Matthew Mckenzie, Kenneth T. Palmer, Benjamin Wyman, Joseph Miller, Tom Mccord, Charles P.M. Outwin
Maine History
Reviews of the following books: Second Nature: An Environmental History of New England by Richard W. Judd; Hope and Fear in Margaret Chase Smith's America: A Continuous Tangle by Gregory P. Gallant; The 2nd Maine Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster by Ned Smith; Distilled in Maine: A History of Libations, Temperance and Craft Spirits by Kate McCarty; Bangor in World War II: From the Homefront to the Embattled Skies by David H. Bergquist; The Night the Sky Turned Red: The Story of the Great Portland Maine Fire of July 4th 1866, as told by Those Who …
Better Than The Poorhouse?: The Origins Of Mothers’ Aid In Maine, Rebecca White
Better Than The Poorhouse?: The Origins Of Mothers’ Aid In Maine, Rebecca White
Maine History
Rebecca White’s article examines the origins of a new state-funded welfare system in Maine through the prism of the 1917 “Act to Provide for Mothers with Dependent Children,” also known as mothers’ aid or mothers’ allowance legislation. This law established a centralized Mothers’ Allowance Board in Augusta to oversee applications and administer state funding to eligible Maine families. This represented a shift from traditional town-based poor services to a state-funded system of aid for those considered to be worthy. This article details the sparse landscape of public and private charity available to families in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries …
Hattie Bagley, Stephanie S. Gough