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Louine Lunt Peck, Interviewed By Carol Toner And Mazie Hough, Part 2, Louine Lunt Connor Peck

MF144 Women in the Military

Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, August 16, 2000, at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Peck talks about serving as a Second Lieutenant as a nurse in the Navy Nurses Corps from 1938 to 1941; serving in the Army Nurses Corps from 1943 to 1945; serving on the USAHS Acadia, which sailed to the Bay of Naples and Normandy. Text: 53 pp. transcript. Time: 01:34:39.

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Nationalism In The French Revolution Of 1789, Kiley Bickford

Honors College

The French Revolution of 1789 was instrumental in the emergence and growth of modern nationalism, the idea that a state should represent, and serve the interests of, a people, or "nation," that shares a common culture and history and feels as one. But national ideas, often with their source in the otherwise cosmopolitan world of the Enlightenment, were also an important cause of the Revolution itself. The rhetoric and documents of the Revolution demonstrate the importance of national ideas. The Republic relied on national symbols, such as the tricolor flag and the “Marseillaise” anthem, to spread nationalist ideas throughout French …

The Voyage Of Pierre Angibaut, Known As Champdoré, Captain In The Marine Of New France, Made To The Coast Of Maine, 1608, B. F. Decosta

Maine History Documents

Reprinted from the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register for April, 1891. Author's note, page 7: "This article was written some fifteen years ago, on finding that Parkman had overlooked the expedition of 1608, which had also been overlooked by every author of whom the writer had any knowledge. Subsequently, Dr. Slafter, in editing the Prince Society's edition of Champlain's work, noted the fact that the voyage was made. It is time for Champdoré to have due recognition."