Critical perspectives on Maine: underrepresented voices & overlooked histories
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created by teddydee
last updated May, 2026
Dancing in Paradise, Burning in Hell: Women in Maine's Historic Working Class Dance Industry
Trudy Irene Scee
The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands
Neil Rolde
The Socialist Alternative: Utopian Experiments and the Socialist Party of Maine, 1895-1914
Charles A. Scontras
From the Holocaust to Maine: Testimonies of the Survivors
Jack Montgomery
Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine
James S. Leamon
In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine
Donna M. Loring
Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
Bruce J. Bourque
As Maine Went: Governor LePage and the Tea Party Takeover of Maine
Mike Tipping
Maine: The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present
Richard W. Judd
Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future
Maine's Visible Black History: The First Chronicle of Its People
H.H. Price
Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England
John Putnam Demos
Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America
Gigi Georges
Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England
Carolyn Merchant
Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier (Early American Places, 9)
Ian Saxine
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
William Cronon
Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
Margaret Ellen Newell
A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis
Meghan Sterling
Distilled in Maine: A History of Libations, Temperance & Craft Spirits
Kate McCarty
Up for Grabs: Timber Pirates, Lumber Barons, and the Battles Over Maine's Public Lands
Thomas Urquhart
Franco-Americans of Maine (Images of America: Maine)
Dyke Hendrickson
Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
Nelson Madore
Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
Brett Rushforth
Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812
Joshua M. Smith
A Place in Time: The Shakers at Sabbathday Lake, Maine
Stephen Guion Williams
Somalis in Maine: Crossing Cultural Currents (Io Series)
Kimberly A. Huisman
Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry
Michael G Hillard
Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of Feeblemindedness in Maine
Stephen T. Murphy
Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950 (Revisiting New England)
Maureen Elgersman Lee
I love this app. Have I ever been to Maine? Nope. Am I intrigued? Yes indeed
Nice!
under construction ?
All* of my lists are perpetually under construction, please nobody come to me for unambiguous resolution lol
*except the Wishbone one haha
I'm just here for the journey 🙂↕️
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Yoooooo! I’ve never been to Maine either but somehow this is speaking to me like nobody’s business? Thank you for compiling! 🩵
Thanks for perusing! :)
this is such a cool list and topic, thanks for putting this together!
:) thanks!
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