Keywords: Organizations %26 movements
Item 20301
Society of Colonial Wars, Portland, 1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903-06-26 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 66912
William Maker GAR application, Gardiner, 1874
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1874-03-26 Location: Gardiner Media: Ink on paper
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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s
Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.
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Maine's Road to Statehood - 1790s: A Growing Movement
"… it was more organized. Daniel Davis, one of the movement's literary leaders, published An Address to the Inhabitants of the District of Maine Upon…"
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Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists
"X To the dismay of the separationist movement, anti-separationists spent the summer organizing, and on Election Day in September they showed up by…"