Maine Memory Network

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Listen to the entire "Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold" documentary

"… Twelve Other Views from Phippsburg   Listen to Chapter Thirteen Racism Continues   Listen to Chapter Fourteen The State Apologizes"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Resources, Links, and Bibliography for Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… Island: A Story Best Left Untold The Maine State Museum provides an excellent on-line resource for more information about Malaga including…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"There is also mention of his business and political life in the Town Records. In 1806 Mr. Crosby was named the president of the First Bank in…"

Malaga Island: a story best left untold - About the Project

"… lived in caves and were eventually evicted by the state (the eviction is the only true part of that story)."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays

"… of the northeast boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland" region known between what is today the American state of Maine…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"… which included a look at the airports in the state and an outline of notable people in the industry."

Maine Conservation Corps

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Passamaquoddy Hereditary Chief Francis Joseph Neptune

"… with Great Britain which recognized the United States. After the Revolutionary War dignitaries visited the Chief to discuss place names and…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 1 of 5

"… social history methods Today’s boundaries of the state of Maine are easy to picture in the far northeastern corner of the United States, but that…"

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

"… government is surely a better bet than the State, but it is no less beholden by its own sense of superiority and changing dictates, especially…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"Positioning itself as the sole source of legal title to “unappropriated” land, the state government itself began to compete with the great…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"John River, and state interests mobilized, especially in the US Senate, to reject the proposal, although it had other more pro-American dimensions."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 1 of 4

"… nearly two hundred years before Maine became a state. While the documents themselves do not often feature Wabanaki people or voices, it is…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… dispute over the Northeast boundary of the United States. This ill-defined boundary, based on an inaccurate map, was laid out in the Treaty of…"

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

"The included collections were selected because of their historical significance to what is currently Maine, New England, and the United States; the…"

Surry by the Bay - History of Surry

"… home of hundreds.” Despite occasional economic, political, and cultural differences throughout the past century, this coastal town's diligent…"

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

"… notions of national honor and the United States’ legitimacy on the world stage. It was a new version of a defining problem in the history of early…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… province of New Brunswick and the future state of Maine. The large terrain involved in determining the northeastern border stretched from islands…"

Margaret Chase Smith Library

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"… 'disappearance' of the Abenaki in Western Maine: Political organizations and ethnocentric assumptions." American Indian Quarterly 17.2 (1993)…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 2 of 2

"The Maine Central Railroad Company. Augusta, State of Maine, 1876. Print. Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of Maine."

Historic Hallowell - Initiative and Self-Improvement

"… Ought a minister of the gospel interfere with politics? (No) Was the late war between the United States and Great Britain beneficial to the former…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… of Customs for the Port of Bath and the United States Post Office. The job of the Customs Collector was to collect taxes on goods imported from…"