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Non-Adversarial Labor Relations In Nineteenth Century Maine: The S. D. Warren Company, Charles A. Scontras Jun 1997

Non-Adversarial Labor Relations In Nineteenth Century Maine: The S. D. Warren Company, Charles A. Scontras

Maine History

Like industrial corporations all across America, the S. D. Warren Company searched for a policy that would maintain labor peace at the company's mills. Founder Samuel Dennis Warren's solutions helped set the themes for Progressive-era experiments in “welfare capitalism. " While there was no mistaking of promoting a new morality for American industrial society. Charles A. Scontras, professor of political the hierarchical nature of decision-making at the company, the Warren family saw itself in a larger role science at the University of Maine and research associate at the university's Bureau of Labor Education, has written numerous books on organized labor …


Queen Catherine's Rose; By Elizabeth Akers Allen, Stephanie Philbrick Jun 1997

Queen Catherine's Rose; By Elizabeth Akers Allen, Stephanie Philbrick

Maine History

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From Bangor To Elmira And Back Again: The Civil War Career Of Dr. Eugene Francis Sanger, Andrew Macissac Jun 1997

From Bangor To Elmira And Back Again: The Civil War Career Of Dr. Eugene Francis Sanger, Andrew Macissac

Maine History

Bangor's Dr. Eugene Francis Sanger holds a dubious claim to fame in the annals of Civil War history. Having joined the Union medical corps largely to advance his own career; the abrasive surgeon moved from post to post, frustrated by lack of discipline among field staff and by lack of recognition from his superiors. In 1864 Sanger became the chief medical officer at the Elmira Prison Camp in New York, a northern counterpart to the infamous Andersonville Prison. Was Sanger responsible for Elmira 's unconscionable mortality rate? The historical record is ambiguous. Andrew Maclsaac grew up in Mexico, Maine, and …


Franco-American Identity At The University Of Maine, Michael Brown Jan 1997

Franco-American Identity At The University Of Maine, Michael Brown

Maine History

Nineteenth-century Franco-Americans enjoyed a rich cultural heritage buttressed by parish, community, and family institutions. Faced with pressures to assimilate, Francos abandoned “la survivance ”- strategies for preserving Franco identity in the 1920's. In the 1960's Franco-American students at the University of Maine responded to a national upsurge in civil rights activism and ethnic and gender consciousness by organizing the Franco-American Resources Opportunity Group (FAROG). The Group's accomplishments - a university resource center, a curriculum in Franco-American studies, and a journal with international readership - testified to revitalized Franco-American identity in the 1970s. Michael Brown, a native of Tachikawa, Japan, received …


Bunker's Textbook, William David Barry Jan 1997

Bunker's Textbook, William David Barry

Maine History

No abstract provided.


Journal Cover And Toc, Maine Historical Society Jan 1997

Journal Cover And Toc, Maine Historical Society

Maine History

Cover, Editors and Editorial Board and Table of Contents with authors' names


Civil-Rights Activism In Maine, 1945-1971, Charles L. Lumpkins Jan 1997

Civil-Rights Activism In Maine, 1945-1971, Charles L. Lumpkins

Maine History

Like civil-rights activists everywhere, those in Maine challenged racism and inequality in postwar America. Two factors - the size of the African-American minority in Maine, and the subtle but insidious forms of racism in the state - shaped NAACP strategies in Bangor, Lewiston, Brunswick, and Portland. Beginning with a small core group in the 1950s, the NAACP succeeded in building a basis for civil-rights legislation in Maine - a legacy, as Lumpkins points out - shared by all Mainers today. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Lumpkins earned a M.L.S. from Simmons College in 1977 and a M.A. in history from …


Resistance In “Pioneer Territory”: The Maine Naacp And The Pursuit Of Fair Housing Legislation, Eben Simmons-Miller Jan 1997

Resistance In “Pioneer Territory”: The Maine Naacp And The Pursuit Of Fair Housing Legislation, Eben Simmons-Miller

Maine History

While Charles Lumpkins details the organizational strategies of the civil-rights movement in Maine, Eben Miller focuses on the politics of fair housing. Outlining the “geography of segregation” in Maine, he describes the resistance to fair housing and the means by which the NAACP documented civil-rights violations, drafted legislation, built coalitions of concerned black and white citizens, and advanced the “moral and ethical responsibility ” of all Mainers to work for fair housing legislation. Mr. Miller, from Woolwich, graduated from Bates College in 1996. His article is based on research done for an honors thesis. Mr. Miller shared some of this …