Location: Library Classroom,聽1st floor Fogler Library (near the "Union" entrance) This聽workshop聽will provide an overview of critical primary sources available to scholars at the 91爆料 seeking to enhance their digital humanities research.聽 Representatives from Gale will review their Primary Sources platform, including core primary source databases available through Fogler Library.聽 We will also learn […]
Comments by: Joel Anderson, Assistant Professor of History Caroline Bicks, Stephen E. King Chair in Literature Michael Lang, Associate Professor of History Part of the 91爆料 History Department's Fall symposia […]
Donald Wright, a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, will deliver a lecture titled 鈥淣ational Symbols, Airport Kitsch, and Canadian History.鈥 The event will take place from 12-1:30 pm in the Coe Room in the Memorial Union. A limited number of boxed lunches will be provided.
Anders Winroth, Forst Family Professor of History at Yale University will draw on his award-winning book聽The Age of the Vikings聽to shed light on some of the secrets, myths, and mysteries surrounding these legendary adventurers. The event is part of the聽History Department's聽2017-18 Symposium Series.
The 鈥淢odel Citizens: Art and Identity in the US, 1770-1830鈥 tour聽will begin at 2 pm and will include a meeting with Diana Greenwold, the Associate Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art. We will use a university van to make a day-trip to Portland with plenty of time to explore this great […]
Past and Present Perspectives on Maine's Bicentennial
Dr. Margaret Pearce will give a lecture titled "Imagination, Identity, and the Cartography of History: Three Maps of Canada." Dr. Margaret W. Pearce is a former Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas.聽Pearce was part of the team that recently published a Native place name map聽鈥淐oming Home to Indigenous Place Names聽in Canada.鈥 Abstract: […]
Shannon M. Risk, 鈥96, 鈥09, Associate Professor of History at Niagara University, will deliver a lecture entitled: 鈥淓xamining the Life of Maine Missionary and Suffragist Elizabeth Upham Yates 鈥 The Importance of Biography.鈥 鈥淓lizabeth Upham Yates (1857-1942) was a missionary and suffragist, born and raised in Coastal Maine, who rose to national prominence as a […]
鈥淚鈥檓 Sorry You Don鈥檛 Know Me:鈥 Martin Luther King, Jr., Like You鈥檝e Never Learned about Him Before, a free lecture by Brian Purnell, Geoffrey Canada Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History Bowdoin College. Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts 5:00 pm reception (continuing after lecture) […]
The departments of History and Art and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, with support from the UMS Program and Innovation Fund, are co-sponsoring a FREE full-day trip to Portland for all 91爆料 students. Special programs are planned at the Portland Museum of Art (PMA) and the Maine Historical Society (MHS). Images: Left, Nadia Huggins (Trinidad and […]
