Keywords: changes
Item 64625
Letter about changes in North Carolina, 1865
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1865 Location: New Bern; Dennysville Media: Ink on paper
Item 54440
Name changes for a Presque Isle Bank, 1940 - 2000
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1940–2000 Location: Presque Isle Media: MP3
Item 32321
7-13 Adams Place, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Lydia J. Adams Estate Style: Vernacular Victorian Use: Dwelling - Two family
Item 32559
150-152 Beacon Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Mary A Thompson Style: Georgian Use: Dwelling - Double House
Item 110083
Preliminary Sketches for Changes in Town Hall, Freeport, 1920-1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1920–1930 Location: Freeport Client: Freeport Town Hall Architect: Poor & Thomas
Item 110129
Changes at Main Offices, 2nd Floor for Maine Savings Bank, 1932
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1932 Client: Maine Savings Bank Architect: John P. Thomas
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Exhibit
Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In
Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.
Site Page
"VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) First Universalist Church, Biddeford, 1955McArthur Public Library Small, innovative…"
Site Page
"VIII. Changing course and new beginnings (1955-Present) Shops in the Exchange Block, Biddeford, ca."
Story
Wabanaki-Greenland connections
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune
Exploring cultural resiliency in this time of rapidly changing climate.
Story
What does a warming climate mean for Maine?
by David Reidmiller
Climate change affects all aspects of life. What does this mean for Maine?
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
"In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" Englishman Sydney Smith's 1820 sneer irked Americans, especially writers such as Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Maine's John Neal, until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's resounding popularity successfully rebuffed the question. The Bowdoin educated Portland native became the America's first superstar poet, paradoxically loved especially in Britain, even memorialized at Westminster Abbey. He achieved international celebrity with about forty books or translations to his credit between 1830 and 1884, and, like superstars today, his public craved pictures of him. His publishers consequently commissioned Longfellow's portrait more often than his family, and he sat for dozens of original paintings, drawings, and photos during his lifetime, as well as sculptures. Engravers and lithographers printed replicas of the originals as book frontispiece, as illustrations for magazine or newspaper articles, and as post cards or "cabinet" cards handed out to admirers, often autographed. After the poet's death, illustrators continued commercial production of his image for new editions of his writings and coloring books or games such as "Authors," and sculptors commemorated him with busts in Longfellow Schools or full-length figures in town squares. On the simple basis of quantity, the number of reproductions of the Maine native's image arguably marks him as the country's best-known nineteenth century writer. TEACHERS can use this presentation to discuss these themes in art, history, English, or humanities classes, or to lead into the following LESSON PLANS. The plans aim for any 9-12 high school studio art class, but they can also be used in any humanities course, such as literature or history. They can be adapted readily for grades 3-8 as well by modifying instructional language, evaluation rubrics, and targeted Maine Learning Results and by selecting materials for appropriate age level.
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Healthcare History in Maine
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to read and analyze letters, literature, and other primary documents and articles of material culture from the MHS collections relating to how people in Maine have given and received healthcare throughout history. Students will discuss the giving and receiving of medicines and treatments from the 18th-21st centuries, the evolving role of hospitals since the 19th century, and how the nursing profession has changed since the Civil War. Students will also look at how people and healthcare facilities in Maine have addressed epidemics in the past, such as influenza and tuberculosis, and what we can learn today from studying the history of healthcare and medicine.
