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Item 16149
Title: Letter concerning Indian treaties, 1864
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1864-01-14
Media: Ink on paper
Item 8955
Title: Copy of a Seneca Indian treaty with the British, 1764
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1764
Media: Ink on paper
Item 20168
Title: Peace announcement, 1815
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1815
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
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The Aroostook War and the Northeast Border
From the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution in 1783 to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842, the northern border of Maine -- and the United States -- was uncertain and a source of considerable tension between the U.S. and Britain.
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Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.
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William Ladd, the Apostle of Peace
William Ladd of Minot, a former ship captain and cotton farmer, wanted to abolish slavery, believed in temperance and other causes, but even more passionately, he wanted nations to agree to international peace. He was the founder of the American Peace Society in 1828.