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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…"
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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…"
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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…"
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"… childhood, his, work, the places he lived, his political views, his passions -- all intended for his wife, Clara Cary Martin, and their children."
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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."
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"… gardening and farming, transportation, education, politics, dance and music, religion, the Civil War era, Irish in Bangor, family life, medicine…"
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"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…"
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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…"
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"Both were councilors in the state. Hutchinson’s political ties were crucial during the early days of the company."
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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…"
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"… islanders was prompted by racism, eugenics, and political retribution, tensions over the island were clearly fueled by economic woes so removal of…"
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"… women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."
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"His scholarship focuses on politics, political economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America."
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"… women, who possessed limited access to formal political and economic power, and who are seldom centered in eighteenth-century historical sources."
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"… their Indigenous cultural and economic systems, the settlers sought their signatures and consent of land ownership on finite political documents."
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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."
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"This political influence translated into Massachusetts taxpayers funding fortifications to protect company towns, and the creation of Lincoln County…"
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"… century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw the Maine borderland as a place to cultivate their own dreams of…"
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"… a 'nation within a nation,' leaders across all political spectrums ran on platforms decrying, much like the “liberty men” of old, any possible…"
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"… 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…"
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"These displays of Wabanaki diplomacy and political action have strong echoes with Wabanaki diplomats from the eighteenth century documented in the…"
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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."
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"… testimony, and future commissions on the political fate of the islands in the bay would similarly focus on the correct interpretations of…"
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"… past in the cross-border region, and as Wabanaki political and language activism demonstrates in 2022, Native peoples remain fundamentally invested…"