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Full-Text Articles in Diplomatic History
How Maine Viewed The War, 1914–1917 (1940 Reprint), Edwin Costrell
How Maine Viewed The War, 1914–1917 (1940 Reprint), Edwin Costrell
Maine History
Originally published in 1940, as the United States once more evaluated possible involvement in global conflict, How Maine Viewed the War, 1914– 1917 looks backward to Maine on the eve of World War I. Author Edwin Stanley Costrell (1913–2010), through a study of newspaper coverage of the years 1914 to 1917, provides a thought-provoking account of a Maine people wrestling with ambivalence over US involvement in the Great War; of a citizenry seeking to reconcile ethnic diversity with national unity; and of a nation divided over pacifism, militarism, isolationism, and internationalism and increasingly moving toward war with Germany. Costrell was …
Maine's Embargo Forts, Joshua M. Smith
Maine's Embargo Forts, Joshua M. Smith
Maine History
The Embargo acts, passed in 1806-1808 during the Jefferson administration, were originally designed to punish Great Britain for violating American neutrality on the high seas during the Napoleonic wars. Increasingly, however, the acts were enforced against Americans seeking to defy the embargo and trade with England. Since Maine was heavily committed to trading with Great Britain — and with its colonies immediately to the north of Maine — the War Department ordered several forts built along the District’s coast, ostensibly to protect American citizens from British reprisal or war, but in fact, to enforce the embargoes. The forts brought sharply …
“A Few Days Later In Coming:” Major General Winfield Scott’S Role In The Aroostook War, Michael D. Wagner
“A Few Days Later In Coming:” Major General Winfield Scott’S Role In The Aroostook War, Michael D. Wagner
Maine History
This article is a summary of the military and diplomatic actions taken in 1839 to avert the Aroostock War between the State of Maine and the Province of New Brunswick. Particular emphasis is placed on the actions of Major General Winfield Scott.