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Full-Text Articles in History
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 …
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 …
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 …