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Aa Ms 29 African American Oral History Collection, Jill Piekut Roy, Lex Lecrone
Aa Ms 29 African American Oral History Collection, Jill Piekut Roy, Lex Lecrone
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Description
The Center for the Study of Lives was established in 1988 by Robert Atkinson, professor emeritus of human development, multicultural studies, and religious studies at University of Southern Maine. Collection includes recordings and documents related to oral histories conducted by Jill Cournoyer and other students of Joseph Conforti. Interviewees are Eugene Cummings, Rev. Margaret Lawson, Ronald S. Lynch, Leola Marshall, Dana Richardson, and Gerald E. Talbot. Also includes a speech by Eugene Jackson. Interviewees speak about their lives and histories as African Americans in the United States, particularly in Portland, Maine.
Date Range:
1985-1996
Size of Collection:
0.25 Linear …
Gen Ms 30 Thurston/Corthell Collection Finding Aid, Megan Hendrix
Gen Ms 30 Thurston/Corthell Collection Finding Aid, Megan Hendrix
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Description:
W.J. Corthell was the first principal of the Western State Normal School in Gorham, founded in 1878. The other collector may have been Marjorie Thurston, class of 1907. The Memorabilia consists of artifacts and photographs found in Special Collections.
Date Range:
1870s-1907
Size of Collection:
1 ft.
Lg Ms 029 Margaret Cruikshank Papers Finding Aid, Christina E. Walker, Anthony Marvullo
Lg Ms 029 Margaret Cruikshank Papers Finding Aid, Christina E. Walker, Anthony Marvullo
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Margaret Cruikshank (b. 1940) has not only led a distinguished career in academia but is also the author of numerous works. Cruikshank’s earliest writings include reviews, essays and articles that have appeared in a variety of periodicals. Other publications include The Lesbian Path (1980), The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement (1992), and Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging (2003). After earning her Ph.D., Cruikshank began teaching English at colleges and universities throughout the Midwest. In 1975, Cruikshank moved to Minnesota where she continued to teach university level English and also helped establish Mankato State University’s first women’s …
Diversity At The Ballot Box: Electoral Politics And Maine's Minority Communities, Post-Wwii To The Present, University Of Southern Maine, Selma Botman, Howard M. Solomon, Abraham J. Peck, Bob Greene
Diversity At The Ballot Box: Electoral Politics And Maine's Minority Communities, Post-Wwii To The Present, University Of Southern Maine, Selma Botman, Howard M. Solomon, Abraham J. Peck, Bob Greene
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As this year’s Sampson Center exhibition makes clear the powerful desire to find historical inevitability in the advance toward equal opportunity for all Americans has become far more nuanced by the sometimes discomforting reminders that advances at the ballot box are neither as clear-cut nor as unconditional as we once hoped. The ancient antipathies of racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia are not so easily elided by political campaigns and elections. The pace of social consensus requires a degree of patience and continuing attention that tries the very fabric of American life while we attempt to comprehend the consequences of change wrought …
'Remember Me?' The Life And Legacy Of Jean Byers Sampson, University Of Southern Maine, Joseph S. Wood, Abraham J. Peck, Mark Lapping, Margaret Ann Brown
'Remember Me?' The Life And Legacy Of Jean Byers Sampson, University Of Southern Maine, Joseph S. Wood, Abraham J. Peck, Mark Lapping, Margaret Ann Brown
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In April 1961, Jean Byers Sampson wrote to the director of branches of the NAACP notifying him that she was involved with establishing a branch in Lewiston-Auburn. Because Jean had worked for the national branch of the NAACP in the late 1940s, she began her letter with a friendly “Remember me?” It is a short, intimate phrase that characterized how Jean worked throughout her life. “‘Remember Me?’ The Life and Legacy of Jean Byers Sampson,” the third annual event of the Sampson Center, is a tribute to how one person’s life changed Maine.
Table of Contents:
The Mosaic of Maine …
Liberating Visions: Religion And The Challenge Of Change In Maine,1820 To The Present, University Of Southern Maine, Susie Boch, Joseph S. Wood, Maureen Elgersman Lee, Howard M. Solomon, Abraham J. Peck
Liberating Visions: Religion And The Challenge Of Change In Maine,1820 To The Present, University Of Southern Maine, Susie Boch, Joseph S. Wood, Maureen Elgersman Lee, Howard M. Solomon, Abraham J. Peck
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Liberating Visions: Religion and the Challenge of Change in Maine, 1820 to the Present. Each of the Sampson Center’s three scholars has crafted an original essay related to one of the Sampson Center collections—African-American, Judaic, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender—thereby reflecting on how religious institutions have fostered minority identity and have framed social and cultural transformation.
Table of Contents:
Religion and Transformation (Joseph S. Wood, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs)
Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine Programming (Susie Bock, Director, Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine and Head, USM Special Collections)
The African American …
The Ties That Bind: Experiences Of Family In Maine, 1900-Present, Univeristy Of Southern Maine, Susie Bock, Joseph S. Wood, Maureen Elgersman Lee, Abraham J. Peck, Howard M. Solomon
The Ties That Bind: Experiences Of Family In Maine, 1900-Present, Univeristy Of Southern Maine, Susie Bock, Joseph S. Wood, Maureen Elgersman Lee, Abraham J. Peck, Howard M. Solomon
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The Ties That Bind opens a window to meaning in the material culture of Mainers outside the dominant culture. Focusing on family, the three Center scholars whose work is catalogued here provide a lens that allows us to peer through that window into something of the complex nature of difference. The three scholars reveal otherwise anonymous Maine people, whose very anonymity came from the difference that was culturally constructed to segregate them from the dominant culture. Family, which reflects something common to every different culture, works here to highlight unity in human diversity. In that way, family also provides a …
Lg Ms 006 Cruikshank Feminist-Lesbian Publications Collection Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Lg Ms 006 Cruikshank Feminist-Lesbian Publications Collection Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Description:
Margaret Cruikshank was an early scholar in the field of Lesbian studies and taught a women’s studies course at the University of Southern Maine. She also teaches lesbian studies at the University of Maine in Orono. The Collection contains almost a full run of The Furies, an important 1970s publication in the field, as well as other scattered issues of feminist-lesbian publications from the 1970s.
Date Range:
1970s
Size of Collection:
0.5 ft.
Lg Ms 004 Christopher O’Connor Collection Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Lg Ms 004 Christopher O’Connor Collection Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Christopher O’Connor was resident director of USM’s Portland Hall dormitory in the fall of 1999 when there was an incident involving anti-gay graffiti in the dormitory. The Collection includes newspaper clippings regarding the incident, brochures, and a letter to the USM community from O'Connor.
Date Range:
1999
Size of Collection:
0.25 ft.
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1998, University Of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1998, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1998
Saturday May 16th, 1998 at 9:00am
Address by William J. Ryan, Banking Executive
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1997, University Of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1997, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1997
Saturday, May 10th, 1997 9:00am
Address by H. Draper Hunt, Professor Emeritus History and author.
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1996, University Of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1996, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1996
Saturday, May 11th, 1996 at 9:00am
Address by Terrence MacTaggert, Chancellor University of Maine System
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1995, University Of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1995, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1995
Saturday, May 13th, 1995 at 9:00am
Address by Angus S. King, Governor of Maine and U.S. Senator.
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1994, University Of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1994, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1994.
Saturday, May 14th, 1994 at 9:00am
Address by Kate C. Chappell, artist and co-founder of Tom's of Maine. (see also: Kate Cheney Chappell 83 Center for Book Arts)
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1993, University Of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1993, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1993
Saturday May 15, 1993 at 9am
Address by Patricia Locke, educator.
Summer 1993, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Spring 1993, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1992, University Of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1992, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine commencement program, 1992.
Saturday May 9th, 1992 at 9:30am
Address by Edmund S. Muskie, former Secretary of State.
The Underground Railroad, 05/05/1992, Anonymous
The Underground Railroad, 05/05/1992, Anonymous
Underground Railroad
Editorial - "Gang of One" -- Lower The Student Activity Fee!! -- Senate Is Bogus
The Underground Railroad, 04/13/1992, Anonymous
The Underground Railroad, 04/13/1992, Anonymous
Underground Railroad
Dedicated To Being Anti-P.C. About The Environment
Winter 1992-1993, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Winter 1992-1993, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
WMPG Program Guides
WMPG Program Guide Winter 1992-1993
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program 1991, University Of Southern Maine
University Of Southern Maine Commencement Program 1991, University Of Southern Maine
Commencement Programs
University of Southern Maine Commencement Program, 1991
"Saturday, May the Eleventh Nineteen Hundred and Ninety One At Nine-thirty in the Forenoon"
Address given by Robert B. Binswanger, educator.
Brochure 1988, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Summer 1988, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Summer 1987, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Winter/Spring 1986, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Winter/Spring 1986, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
WMPG Program Guides
WMPG Program Guide, Winter/Spring 1986
Summer 1984, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
Fall 1983, 90.9 Wmpg Fm
University Of Maine Portland- Gorham Commencement Program 1971, University Of Maine Portland - Gorham
University Of Maine Portland- Gorham Commencement Program 1971, University Of Maine Portland - Gorham
Commencement Programs
The Gorham State College of the University of Maine program for the Ninetieth-second Annual Commencement. Held in Gorham, Maine June 6, 1971. Address given by Dr. Robert M. York.
University Of Maine Portland- Gorham And University Of Maine School Of Law Commencement Program 1971, University Of Maine In Portland
University Of Maine Portland- Gorham And University Of Maine School Of Law Commencement Program 1971, University Of Maine In Portland
Commencement Programs
University of Maine in Portland and University of Maine School of Law Commencement Program for the Tenth Commencement. Held in Portland, Maine June 5, 1971. Address given by Carl T. Rowan. Honorary Degree conferred upon Carlton D. Reed Jr., Trustee of the University.