Maine History

Author : Harry Gratwick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614231349

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Hidden History of Maine by Harry Gratwick Pdf

Discover 400 years of New England history you won’t find in guidebooks in this collection of true stories and colorful characters from The Pine Tree State. Maine wouldn’t be the magical place it is today without the contributions of little-known individuals whose inspiring and adventuresome lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Journalist and Maine historian Harry Gratwick presents vividly detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also profiles inventors such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism to earn the nickname "the female Edison." From soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George "Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to ever win a Major League Baseball batting championship, Hidden History of Maine reveals the men and women who made history without making it into history books.

Author : Maine Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : America
ISBN : MINN:31951D00589321F

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Documentary History of the State of Maine by Maine Historical Society Pdf

Author : Neil Rolde
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89064416597

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Maine by Neil Rolde Pdf

Historian, writer, and former legislator, Rolde gives us the complete history of Maine politics and beyond. From the Stone Age to the New Age, Maine: A Narrative History honors, bally-hoos, investigates, and studies the people and politics that built and continue to influence life in the State of Maine. Filled with intriguing facts, photographs, maps, and memorabilia, this one-volume narrative is an excellent reference guide and an entertaining read.

Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Maine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037110608

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The History of Maine by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Pdf

Author : William Durkee Williamson
Publisher : Hallowell [Me.] : Glazier, Masters
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Maine
ISBN : NYPL:33433081782504

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The History of the State of Maine by William Durkee Williamson Pdf

Author : Lincoln Paine
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780884485667

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Down East: An Illustrated History of Maritime Maine (2) by Lincoln Paine Pdf

From the first explorers, to the century of ships, to our modern fisheries and diversification, Maine's maritime story is told in engaging detail. Lincoln Paine has laid down the framework for an understanding of Maine's maritime history by relating the population and landscape of today to their historic foundations. This engaging overview of Maine’s maritime history ranges from early Native American travel and fishing to pre-Plymouth European settlements, wars, international trade, shipbuilding, boom-and-bust fisheries, immigrant quarrymen, quick-lime production, yachting, and modern port facilities, all unfolding against one of the most dramatic seascapes on the planet. Down East can be read in an evening but will be referred to again and again. When the first edition was published in 2000, Walter Cronkite—a veteran Maine coastal sailor as well as The Most Trusted Man in America—wrote that “Paine’s economy of phrase and clarity of purpose make this book a delight.” Paine went on to write his monumental opus The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World (PW starred review), but now returns to his first and most abiding love, the coast of Maine, to revise and update this gem of a book. The new edition is printed in a large, full-color format with a stunning complement of historical photos, paintings, charts, and illustrations, making this a truly visual journey along a storied coast.

Author : Louis Clinton Hatch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Maine
ISBN : UOM:39015005462851

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Maine by Louis Clinton Hatch Pdf

Author : Henry D. Kingsbury,Simeon L. Deyo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Kennebec County (Me.)
ISBN : UIUC:30112032466671

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Illustrated History of Kennebec County, Maine; 1625-1799-1892 by Henry D. Kingsbury,Simeon L. Deyo Pdf

Author : Matthew Jude Barker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625845122

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The Irish of Portland, Maine: A History of Forest City Hibernians by Matthew Jude Barker Pdf

The Irish have influenced the city of Portland since it was first established in the seventeenth century. Today's vibrant Catholic community owes its origins to Irish immigrants in Portland's earliest days, when beloved leaders like Father Ffrench provided solace to souls far from home. The church helped them adapt and adapted along with them, affecting the city in many ways. Portland's Irish faced discrimination, especially in the years before the Civil War, when anti-Irish sentiment surged and burnings and violence erupted, like the June 1855 Rum Riot. Despite this, many Portland Irish took up arms for the United States in the Civil War, and their participation in this conflict helped them become assimilated. Join local expert Matthew Jude Barker as he explores the triumphs and challenges of the Irish of Portland before the twentieth century..

Author : Harriet H. Price,Gerald E. Talbot
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0884482758

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Maine's Visible Black History by Harriet H. Price,Gerald E. Talbot Pdf

MAINE'S VISIBLE BLACK HISTORY, by H. H. Price and Gerald Talbot, explores how Black men and women have been integral parts of Maine culture and society since the beginning of the colonial era. Indeed, Mainers of African descent served in every American conflict from the King Philip's War to the present. However, the many contributions of blacks in shaping Maine and the nation have, for a number of reasons, gone largely unacknowledged. Maine's Visible Black History now uncovers and reveals a rich and long--neglected strata of state history and proves a very real connection to regional and national events.

Author : Francis Byron Greene
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1906-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. 1623-1905. by Francis Byron Greene Pdf

Author : W. Woodford Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89071627285

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History of York County, Maine by W. Woodford Clayton Pdf

Author : Ronald F. Banks
Publisher : Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000153035

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A History of Maine by Ronald F. Banks Pdf

Author : Richard William Judd,Edwin A. Churchill,Joel W. Eastman
Publisher : Orono, Me. : University of Maine Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002644849

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Maine by Richard William Judd,Edwin A. Churchill,Joel W. Eastman Pdf

The first comprehensive history of Maine to be published in decades, Maine: The Pine Tree State surveys the region's rich history from prehistoric times to the early 1990s. Drawing on a team of twenty-six scholars with a professional interest in Maine's past, the book features fresh research and new interpretations of even familiar periods such as the Civil War. The chapter authors are respected authorities in Maine history from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, ethnic studies, and the various sub-disciplines of history: political, cultural, economic, labor, military, maritime. Certain themes recur from chapter to chapter and across historical periods. For example, larger structural changes in the nation - market trends, wars, economic fluctuations, demographic flows - strongly affected the everyday world of Maine people. Other prominent themes are the importance of geography and the environment in shaping Maine's economy and culture. Caught up at times in national events, Maine has also led the nation in important ways. Its fishing industry fed and its textile industry clothed the nation's people. Maine loggers contributed heavily to the technologies used in cutting, hauling, and driving timber. Maine excelled in the production of wooden ships and supplied the expertise to sail them. In the nineteenth century Maine's political leaders were among the most powerful in the nation, and Maine's contribution to social reform attracted national recognition.

Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Comparative law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044038492310

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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions by Henry Sumner Maine Pdf