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Witches On The Wind: Weather Magic In New England Folktales, Zephyros Quinn Craven

Thinking Matters Symposium

The English language folktales collected from coastal New England in the 19^th and 20^th centuries display a prominence of weather magic motifs compared with folktales from other regions of the United States. This paper aims to explain the success of the weather magic theme in New England folklore collections and to serve as a starting point for scholarly discourse on the subject, which has hitherto been sparse. This study utilizes climate research, both scholarly and popular collections of folktales, local travel guides, and colonial and labor histories. Through a combination of historical analysis, comparative study, and textual analysis, …

French Canadian Heritage In New England, Emmanuel Kayembe Phd

Original Research

Readings on French culture and history in Canada and the United States.

Department Of History And Political Science Registration Newsletter Fall 2018, Department Of History And Political Science, University Of Southern Maine

Department of History and Political Science Registration Newsletter

In this issue:

• Political Science majors Shaman Kirkland and Hamdia Ahmed help organize March for Our Lives
• New World Languages Options
• Screening of the film “Of Many: Then and Now” and moderated discussion with Rabbi Yehuda Sarna and Imam Khalid Latif
• (De)Constructing Race, Equality, and Power at SPACE Gallery
• Registration information
• HTY/POS Courses Offered Fall 2018
• HTY/POS Internship Fall 2018
• Ron Schmidt's forthcoming book Reading Politics with Machiavelli

Department Of History And Political Science Registration Newsletter Fall 2017, Department Of History And Political Science, University Of Southern Maine

Department of History and Political Science Registration Newsletter

In this issue:

• New Faculty: Lacey Sparks
• Exhibition: "Letters Home: Harriet Sweetser and the Gorham Normal School at the Turn-of-the-Century"
• Student appreciation
• USM Special Collections
• Exhibition: "The Forgotten Heroines of the Easter Rising by Irish Sculptor Betty Newman-Maguire"
• HTY/POS Courses Offered Fall 2017
• HTY/POS Internships Offered Fall 2017
• HTY/POS Courses Offered Summer 2017

Department Of History And Political Science Registration Newsletter Spring 2017, Department Of History And Political Science, University Of Southern Maine

Department of History and Political Science Registration Newsletter

In this issue:

• Maine Model United Nations Conference
• The Arctic: Challenges and Opportunities Program
• W.E.B. Du Bois: Becoming an American Program
• Registration information
• Ron Schmidt's column in Maine Beacon
• HTY/POS Courses Offered Spring 2017
• HTY/POS Internships Spring 2017
• Abraham Peck received a DLitt (Doctor of letters) degree from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England
• USM History on Instagram: @usmhistory
• HTY spring trip to New York City
• Libby Bischof's class visit to Abbe Museum
• "Judeo-Christian and Islamic Values" an opinion article written by Abraham Peck

Department Of History And Political Science Registration Newsletter Fall 2016, Department Of History And Political Science, University Of Southern Maine

Department of History and Political Science Registration Newsletter

In this issue:

• New Race and Ethnic Studies Minor
• Ron Schmidt in the news
• Robert Klotz and Dmitry Bam lecture
• Maine Model United Nations Conference
• HTY/POS Courses Offered Fall 2016
• HTY/POS Internships Offered Fall 2016
• HTY/POS Courses Offered Summer 2016
• Student appreciation
• Libby Bischof presenting at the Third Annual Historians forum at the Maine Historical Society
• Eileen Eagan at the annual national Council on Public History conference in Baltimore, Maryland

Department Of History And Political Science Registration Newsletter Spring 2016, Department Of History And Political Science, University Of Southern Maine

Department of History and Political Science Registration Newsletter

In this issue:

• Exhibition co-curated by Libby Bischof, "Picturing Maine
• History Student Named UNUM Scholar
• Exhibit: "Visualizing Uncle Tom’s Cabin"
• Adam Tuchinsky named interim Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
• New faculty: Timothy Ruback
• Maine Model United Nations Conference (MeMUNC)
• Leroy Rowe class visit to Augusta
• “Social Media and Revolutions,” talk by Adeline Koh, Director of the Center for Digital Humani-ties at Stockton College
• HTY/POS Courses Offered Spring 2016
• HTY/POS Internships Offered Spring 2016

Changing Maine, 1960-2010: Teaching Guide, Richard Barringer, New England Environmental Finance Center

Maine History & Policy Development

Unlike forty years ago, none of us is now certain what the future holds for Maine – except that it will be different. Maine has been transformed by the events of the recent decades. We have come into a new world, a new time – a new historical era, if you will. This new era, like previous eras in Maine history, will require of us new ways of thinking, new ways of understanding, new ways of organizing ourselves as a community of people, if the values and culture we share and cherish are to endure and flourish.

Franco-Americans, 1992 (Scrapbook #16), Franco-American Collection

Scrapbooks

Newspaper articles with photographs, personal accounts, and book reviews about French culture in Lewiston, Maine.

History Of North American Trapping: How Fur-Trading Developed Our Continent, Daniel E. Mcallister Jr., Shirley A. Merrill

Maine Collection

History of North American Trapping: How Fur-Trading Developed Our Continent

by Daniel E. McAllister, Jr. & Shirley A. Merrill

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Augusta, Maine, 1990.

Maine: Poets' Corner Of America, Carl Jefferson Weber

Maine Collection

Maine: Poets' Corner of America

Compiled by Carl Jefferson Weber (1894-1966), formerly Professor of English, Colby College. 1957?

"Maine has always been a fertile seedbed for authors. The following pages will help you to visit the scenes, houses, and regions which these authors have made famous."

Published and distributed by the Department of Economic Development under Appropriation No. 3920.

Grandfather Tales Of Scarborough, Augustus F. Moulton

Maine Collection

Grandfather Tales of Scarborough

by Augustus F. Moulton

Foreword by John Clair Minot

Katahdin Publishing Company, Augusta, Maine, 1925.

"Printed in Maine on Maine-Made Paper, LEWISTON JOURNAL PRESS"

Contents: My Grandfather / The Fabyans and the Millikens / The Stuart Brook / Ezra Carter Homestead / Roads and Highways / The Movement for Better Highways / Dunstan of the Alger Settlement / The Scarboro Marshes and the Dyke / The Rivers and the Old Seaport / The Shipping and the Shipyard / The King Family and Resident People / Old Dunstan Corner / Old Times in the Vicinity / Taverns …

Lewiston Of Today, 1920, R. J. Lawton (Publisher)

Lewiston, Maine

No abstract provided.

A Check List Of Maine Local Histories, Almer J. Huston

Maine Collection

A Check List of Maine Local Histories. Compiled by Almer J. Houston.

Listing of Town Histories, Regimental Histories, County Histories, County Atlases, State Histories, State Atlases, Historical Societies, Collections of Historical and Genealogical Magazines, Ecclesiastical Histories and Statutes and Session Laws.

A.J. Huston, 92 Exchange Street, Portland, Me., 1915.

The Lewiston Of Today, 1913, City Of Lewiston

Lewiston, Maine

No abstract provided.

The History Of The Town Of Bowdoinham, 1762-1912, Silas Adams

Maine Collection

The History of the Town of Bowdoinham, 1762-1912

by Silas Adams

Fairfield Publishing Company, Fairfield, Maine, 1912.

Contents: Ch.I - The Early Settlement - Land Disputes between Rival Co.'s - Fort Richmond / Ch. II - Building of Mills in Town - Organization of Town - First Town Meetings - Attempt to Set Off Cathance Point from Bowdoinham - Town Furnish Preachers / Ch. III - Organization and Names of the Different Churches in Town / Ch. IV - Voting Places Previous to 1800 - Laying out and Building Roads - Legal Documents and Transfers about 1810 - Specimen Account …

Windham, Maine In The War Of The Revolution, 1775-1783, Nathan Goold

Maine Collection

Windham, Maine in the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783

by Nathan Goold

History Of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth Regiment Of Foot : Eight Months' Service Men Of 1775 From York County ; With A Full Account Of Their Movements During The Battle Of Bunker Hill And Complete Muster Rolls Of The Companies, Nathan Goold

Maine Collection

History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth Regiment of Foot : Eight Months' Service Men of 1775 from York County ; With a Full Account of Their Movements During the Battle of Bunker Hill and Complete Muster Rolls of the Companies

by Nathan Goold

"Reprinted From the Maine Historical Society's Quarterly"

The Thurston Print, Portland, Maine, 1899.

History Of Industry, Maine : From The First Settlement In 1791, William Allen

Maine Collection

History of Industry, Maine : From the First Settlement in 1791

by William Allen

Smith & Emery, Printers, Skowhegan, Maine, 1869

Contents: Boundaries and Extent / Land Titles / Plymouth Patent Opposition / Commissioners / New Vineyard, Anson and New Sharon / The Vineyard Gore Lines / First Settlers / Organization of a Military Company / State and County Taxes / Incorporation of the Town / Mills, Roads, Etc. / Face of the Country, Soil and Productions / Schools / Religious Meetings / Census and Statistics / State Valuation and State Taxes / Taxes / County Commissioners / Senators / …

Journal Of Several Visits To The Indians On The Kennebec River, Joseph Baxter

Maine Collection

Journal of Several Visits to the Indians On the Kennebec River

by the Rev. Joseph Baxter, of Medfield, Mass., 1717 with notes by the Rev. Elias Nason. "Reprinted from the N.E.Hist. and Genealogical Register for January, 1867."

David Clapp & Son, Printers, 334 Washington St., Boston, 1867.

An Address Delivered In Saco, Oct.12, 1862 On The One Hundreth Anniversary Of The Organization Of The First Church In Saco, Me., Edward Strong Dwight

Maine Collection

An Address Delivered in Saco, Oct.12, 1862 on the One Hundreth Anniversary of the Organization of the First Church in Saco, Me.

by Edward Strong Dwight, 1820-1890

Saco (Maine): William Noyes, Printer, 1862.