Maine History Online - Coming in April 2010!
Maine History Online, when it is launched in Fall 2009, will introduce people to key topics, themes, and events in Maine history. This major new section of Maine Memory Network is being developed in close partnership with a prestigious group of scholars, and will draw extensively on the 15,000+ primary source materials—historical images, documents, and objects—that have been contributed to Maine Memory by 180 organizations across Maine.
Maine History Online will be organized through three richly illustrated, interconnected sections that will provide multiple ways to access and engage Maine history: (1) A Chronological Approach To Maine History; (2) Themes in Maine History; and (3) Critical Approaches to History.
Each of these sections, which are outlined below, will include a series of contextual essays that explore the issue, period, or theme. Interactive exhibits that draw on and highlight images, documents, and objects from Maine Memory Network will illustrate each essay. These exhibits will delve into specific stories, collections, and historical items from around the state and illuminate more than 500 years of Maine history.
Maine History Online is being developed with the support of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Chronological sections:
a. To 1500, People of the Dawn
b. 1500-1667, Contact and Conflict
c. 1668-1750, More Settlement and Strife
d. 1750-1800, Revolution Downeast
e. 1800-1860, Statehood to Prosperity
f. 1860-1870, the Civil War
g. 1870-1929, Rivers, Factories, and Immigrants
h. 1930-1945, From Depression to War
i. 1946-1970, Maine: a Different Place
j. 1970-Present, Rediscovery, Rebirth
Thematic sections:
a. Peopling Maine
b. Living Off the Land and Resources
c. Leaders and Causes
d. Mainers Go To War
e. Culture and Community Life
f. Trade and Transport
g. Health and Welfare
Critical approaches:
a. Evidence
b. Perspective
c. Narrative
d. Memory
e. Historians in Time