maine history

Published
April 24, 2022

Border dispute between Maine’s two oldest towns heads to court

York and Kittery are at odds over the exact location of a section of the border between the towns first drawn 370 years ago.
Published
March 13, 2022

New England’s first nature guidebook turns 350

Written by an Englishman living in Maine, the rare book identifies the region's native plants and animals and offers natural remedies galore.
Published
March 13, 2022

Decades ago, Ukrainian refugees found ‘heaven’ on farms in Maine

From 1949 to 1955, refugee families from Ukraine, Poland and Estonia stayed at Freedom Farm in Kennebunkport as they built new lives in America. Some later moved to farms in Kennebec County.
Published
February 20, 2022

Our View: Maine should recognize inherent rights of Wabanaki tribes

Tribal sovereignty was bargained away unfairly more than 40 years ago, and the Indigenous people in the state continue to suffer for it.
Published
February 13, 2022

Black History Month: Both Portland and Maine complicit in economics of slavery

Via trade with the West Indies, the labor of enslaved Africans built our state and its largest city.
Published
February 6, 2022

How Mainer Edmund Muskie’s tirade a half-century ago may have cost him the White House

One of the most successful dirty tricks in American political history wiped away the presidential hopes of Rumford's favorite son in 1972.
Published
January 19, 2022

Town History Series returns remotely for 18th installment

Patten Free Library will stream five presentations on local history starting Saturday, Jan. 22.
Published
January 12, 2022

Maine Voices: USM center will build on historian’s legacy by strengthening labor education

L.D. 1816 would create the Dr. Charles A. Scontras Labor Center in honor of a man who grew up in Old Orchard and began his working life in a shoe shop.
Published
January 2, 2022

Chances are nobody will ever again see Maine’s first big movie, viewed worldwide a century ago

'The Rider of the King Log,' by well-known Auburn writer Holman Day, featured log drives, dam explosions, romance and more, but it has utterly vanished since its debut in 1921
Published
November 21, 2021

The View From Here: Native history is American history

The new film ‘Bounty’ places a genocidal policy against the Penobscot Nation in the context of Revolutionary New England.