Author: Maine Historical Society
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375258808X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
Collections of the Maine Historical Society
Author: Maine Historical Society
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375258808X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375258808X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865.
A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1987
Author: Cynthia Pease Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
COLLECTIONS OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Author: Maine Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Collections of the Maine Historical Society
Author: Maine Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Hidden History of Maine
Author: Harry Gratwick
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614231346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
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.
Collections of the Maine Historical Society
Author: Maine Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Guide to Serial Publications Founded Prior to 1918 and Now Or Recently Current in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity
Author: Thomas Johnston Homer
Publisher:
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Publisher:
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Lives of Consequence
Author: Patricia Q. Wall
Publisher: Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and Portsmouth Historical Society
ISBN: 9780915819461
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An essential chapter in the history of Massachusetts's Province of Maine has long been hidden in plain sight: the presence and role of numerous enslaved Blacks (i.e., Africans and people of mixed African, Native American, and white heritage) in its Parish of Kittery--an area that included what are now the towns of Eliot and Berwick. Bringing that missing story to light is the intent of this book. Local historian Patricia Wall has attempted here to push aside that barrier word 'slave' to try to see the men, women, and children to whom that inhuman label applied; to discover their personal circumstances and actions in order to reveal their impact on the early development of this region.In the course of several years of meticulous research into primary sources of all types--deeds, probate records, court files, church records, newspapers, manuscripts, and so on--Wall has skillfully uncovered the identify of more than 450 enslaved individuals who lived in the areas under investigation from the seventeenth century to 1820. In a series of contextual chapters, Wall discusses these people in a remarkable degree of detail and places them into the context of their life and times. Several appendices list both the enslaved persons and their owners and other detailed data.Lives of Consequence makes an important contribution to a more rounded understanding of life in the colonial and federal periods in early Maine. As such, it will be of interest to many academic historians and students, to professional and amateur genealogists, to museum curators, and to everyone concerned with recapturing this long overlooked aspect of the region¿s history. It is an important contribution to the growing literature that is "filling the gaps" in our previously often-biased interpretation of the New England past, and dovetails nicely with the mission of the Portsmouth Historical Society.
Publisher: Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and Portsmouth Historical Society
ISBN: 9780915819461
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An essential chapter in the history of Massachusetts's Province of Maine has long been hidden in plain sight: the presence and role of numerous enslaved Blacks (i.e., Africans and people of mixed African, Native American, and white heritage) in its Parish of Kittery--an area that included what are now the towns of Eliot and Berwick. Bringing that missing story to light is the intent of this book. Local historian Patricia Wall has attempted here to push aside that barrier word 'slave' to try to see the men, women, and children to whom that inhuman label applied; to discover their personal circumstances and actions in order to reveal their impact on the early development of this region.In the course of several years of meticulous research into primary sources of all types--deeds, probate records, court files, church records, newspapers, manuscripts, and so on--Wall has skillfully uncovered the identify of more than 450 enslaved individuals who lived in the areas under investigation from the seventeenth century to 1820. In a series of contextual chapters, Wall discusses these people in a remarkable degree of detail and places them into the context of their life and times. Several appendices list both the enslaved persons and their owners and other detailed data.Lives of Consequence makes an important contribution to a more rounded understanding of life in the colonial and federal periods in early Maine. As such, it will be of interest to many academic historians and students, to professional and amateur genealogists, to museum curators, and to everyone concerned with recapturing this long overlooked aspect of the region¿s history. It is an important contribution to the growing literature that is "filling the gaps" in our previously often-biased interpretation of the New England past, and dovetails nicely with the mission of the Portsmouth Historical Society.
America's Art Museums
Author: Suzanne Loebl
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320060
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A tour of America's most notable museums is also a history of the nation's art that highlights each location's top works while discussing the backgrounds of each building and featured piece of art.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320060
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A tour of America's most notable museums is also a history of the nation's art that highlights each location's top works while discussing the backgrounds of each building and featured piece of art.
A Guide to the Current Periodicals and Serials of the United States and Canada, 1909
Author: Charles Harper Walsh
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : G. Wahr
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : G. Wahr
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description