Maine Memory Network

John Martin: Expert Observer - James Dunning, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… devoted a section of the "Scrap Book" to politics around 1866. He described Dunning, a former Democrat who became active in the Republican Party…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Scrap & Sketch Book 2: 1864-1866

"… the "secesh" element in Bangor, Democratic politics, the Irish residents who voted with the Democrats, and the politicians -- locally and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Illustrations

"… Democrats erected a large tent in Bangor for a political convention, Martin took his son along and sketched the tent, pacing off its length and…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 1 of 2

"… childhood, his, work, the places he lived, his political views, his passions -- all intended for his wife, Clara Cary Martin, and their children."

John Martin: Expert Observer - Dancing Fraternity, City of Bangor, 1868

"… rules of etiquette which will make our manners polite and easy." One of the bylaws is especially revealing."

John Martin: Expert Observer - "Representing every particular:" John Martin's Reflections, Illustrations, and Commentary - Page 2 of 2

"… gardening and farming, transportation, education, politics, dance and music, religion, the Civil War era, Irish in Bangor, family life, medicine…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"While the Bay Colony was given political jurisdiction over both regions, the charter stipulated that no grants of land made in the area east of the…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… act motivated by economics, racism, eugenics, and political retribution. Eight islanders were committed to the then-called Maine School for the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Biographies - Page 1 of 2

"Both were councilors in the state. Hutchinson’s political ties were crucial during the early days of the company."

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations

"… including eugenics, economics, tourism, and the politics of prohibition. That sort of triangulation was born mostly from the lack of a smoking gun…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Explore photos from the "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"… islanders was prompted by racism, eugenics, and political retribution, tensions over the island were clearly fueled by economic woes so removal of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 1 of 4

"… women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."

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

"His scholarship focuses on politics, political economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 4 of 4

"… women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 2 of 5

"… their Indigenous cultural and economic systems, the settlers sought their signatures and consent of land ownership on finite political documents."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home

"… Indigenous peoples and Nations; and the economic, political, geographic, and social establishment of Maine as a state."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 1 of 7

"This political influence translated into Massachusetts taxpayers funding fortifications to protect company towns, and the creation of Lincoln County…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw the Maine borderland as a place to cultivate their own dreams of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… a 'nation within a nation,' leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like the “liberty men” of old, any possible…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 3 of 5

"… March of 1730, the Privy Council determined that political control of the area was rightfully in the hands of the governor of Nova Scotia, not…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 2 of 4

"These displays of Wabanaki diplomacy and political action have strong echoes with Wabanaki diplomats from the eighteenth century documented in the…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies

"He was well versed in business, politics, writing, and science. He was the author of the majority of company pamphlets and official communications."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… testimony, and future commissions on the political fate of the islands in the bay would similarly focus on the correct interpretations of…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 5 of 5

"… past in the cross-border region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested…"