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Historical Items

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Item 73968

Brig. Gen. Dow to Brig. Gen Shepley on pillaging charges, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 73965

Brig. Gen Shepley to Brig. Gen. Dow on pillaging, New Orleans, 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper

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Item 102649

Hooria Majeed, Portland, 2009

Courtesy of Jan Pieter Van Voorst Van Beest, an individual partner Date: 2009 Location: Portland; Kabul Media: Digital photograph

Online Exhibits

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law

"Its abuse led to violence, spousal and child abuse, loss of work, and sometimes, a night in jail. Drunkenness among children was not uncommon, either."

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The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Bootleggers vs. Police

"… Officers Portland Evening Express, March 18, 1927 Violence gained a new mobility that often matched more urban places, including this running gun…"

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - Protect and Serve - Hallowell Fire and Police

"Crimes of violence and serious property offenses were the responsibility of the Lincoln County Sheriff and his Deputies in Pownalborough until 1799…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"There was also poverty, violence, ethnic strife and rancorous politics. Staff of Biddeford Telephone Exchange, ca."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… that resulted occasionally gave way to violence and became bound up in escalating imperial competition between the English and the French."

My Maine Stories

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Used, Abused, Battered, and Confused
by Anonymous (Maine Correctional Center)

The experience of domestic violence and the criminal justice system in Maine

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Epidemic of violence against Indigenous people
by Michael-Corey F. Hinton

Systemic racism, murder, and the danger of stereotypes

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Anti-immigrant violence
by Matthew Jude Barker

Prejudice in Maine against immigrants dates back to at least the mid-1700s