Maine bicentennial
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PublishedMarch 5, 2020
Read our Colony series on Maine’s path to statehood
The state celebrates its bicentennial in 2020.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2020
Read our complete coverage of Maine’s bicentennial year
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PublishedNovember 10, 2019
Maine Suffrage Centennial: Immigrant candidates for office opening new doors
New citizens are seizing the chance to make a difference in their communities.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2019
Falmouth gearing up for celebration of Maine’s bicentennial
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PublishedOctober 6, 2019
Maine Suffrage Centennial: Lewiston journalist was early, bold advocate for the vote among Franco women
Starting in 1910, Camille Lessard Bissonnette took a singular stand when she reached out to immigrant women in Maine and women in French Canada.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2019
NEH chairman coming to Maine to talk about why the bicentennial matters
Jon Parrish Peede also will tour exhibitions about Wabanaki culture, women's suffrage and Jewish life in Maine.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2019
Maulian Dana: Many still silenced after women got the vote
Native Americans in Maine did not achieve full suffrage rights as citizens for many years after the right to vote was extended to women in 1920.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2019
It’s Maine’s 200th anniversary of statehood, and the party begins
Gov. Janet Mills visits Portland and 3 other communities via helicopter to launch a 15-month celebration of Maine's bicentennial.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2019
Gov. Mills set to kick off state bicentennial Tuesday
The governor will travel to four communities on the 200th anniversary of the day Mainers voted to separate from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2019
Vote on Maine statehood was far from assured 2 centuries ago
Every attempt over the previous 30 years to separate from Massachusetts had failed until July 26, 1819 – 200 years ago this week.
