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This year’s Chamberlain Legacy Lecture focuses on race and capital punishment

Pejepscot History Center is hosting the fourth annual Chamberlain Legacy Lecture on the topic of “Selective Justice: The Death Penalty and Race.” The presentation is at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept, 6, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Middle St., Brunswick. This year’s speakers are Alicia Cepeda Maule, digital director at the Innocence Project, and Bangor […]

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Stories from Maine: Riot epidemic hits 1850s Bath

In the spring of 1854 “a riotous epidemic” was “prevailing throughout … the country.” While the Kansas-Nebraska Act stoked the flames of abolition, new radical groups formed to divide the moral and political landscape of America. One of these groups had a destructive effect on the City of Bath. Many Americans were frustrated by the mid-18th […]