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Alfieri, Catherine Raymond The SALT Center for Documentary Studies: The Documenting of Maine Spring 1998
Alfieri, Catherine Raymond Literary Women Over the Years Spring 1997
Aston, Diane M.

A Woman's Search for Visibility: Locating a Gendered Self

Fall 1998

Aston, Diane M. Righting the Wrongs of the Past: A Shifting Wilderness Ethic Fall 2000
Atkins, Julie A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Power of Visual Images in Shaping Perceptions of Puritan Parenting and Childhood Fall 2001
Atkins, Julie Political Culture and the Politics of Welfoare Reform in Maine and Connecticut Summer 2002
Barbour, Chris Captains' Wives: Together at Sea or Alone on Shore? Spring 2001
Barbour, Chris Surviving Scarlett Spring 2002
Barton, Nancy Cape Cod Homes: A Reflection of Post War Developments and Values from Levittown, NY to Portland ME Fall 2002
Barton, Nancy The Good Life: A Reflection of New England as a Region in Consumer Society and Value Spring 2005
Beede, Felicity All subjectivities [are] not created equal (Culley 8) Fall 2003
Beede, Felicity The Indian Child Welfare Act Summer 2005
Bergman, Lance The Changing Landscape of Marysville: "California's Oldest Little City" Spring 2001
Bergman, Lance Nisenan Maiden: Sources of Survival and Identity Spring 2003
Billings, Katrina Willa Cather's West: The Complexities of Land, Gender and Other Cultural Concerns Spring 1994
Black, Sue Baskets - Carriers of Culture Spring 1994
Black, Sue The Perley Family, 1783-1941, and Their Physical Environment - Personal Papers as a Source for Material Culture Studies Spring 1993
Brackett, Janet "No Mean and Unworthy Profession" - Whaling and Religion in 19th Century Martha's Vineyard Spring 1998
Bracket, Janet Creating Identity in Extraordinary Times: Journals of Women at Sea and in the Wilderness Spring 1999
Burch, Charles J. Patriotism and Patriotic Images of New England in World War II: E.B. White, Norman Rockwell and Strong Memories of Fading Veterans Fall 1994
Burch, Charles Comparison of the Captivity and Prisoner of War Experiences and Narratives in the American Civil War Spring 1994
Cargile, Katherine Lewiston's Museum L-A: "A Museum With a Pulse" Fall 2007
Cargile, Katherin The Triple-Deckers of Lewiston, Maine & Greater New England Spring 2008
Casavant, Alan Le Maire Est La Femme: Gender and the Fall From Grace - Bonita Belanger, Mayor of Biddeford 1989-1991 Fall 2002
Casavant, Alan Scandal Fall 2004
Christopher, Tami The Quest for Californian Gold: Maine Individuals and the West, 1848-1888 Spring 2001
Christopher, Tami Reconstructing the Identity and Community of a Working Class Black Woman through Letters: Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1859-1866 Fall 2000
Cimburek, Susan The Story of John Foster, William Hubbard and Decrease Mather or How the First Map Printed in America Fought the Myth of Declension in New England Summer 2001
Cimburek, Susan The Culture of Richmond Island: A Case Study of a Fishing Station and the Men Who Worked There Spring 2003
Clukey, Susan The Contradictory General Howard: A Philosophical Dichotomy in the Treatment of Minorities by General Oliver Otis Howard Spring 1994
Clukey, Sue "You Shall See How a Slave Was Made a Man" - Bondage, Freedom, and Manhood in the Three Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass Spring 1995
Cohen, Ann Margaret Chase Smith: The Visible Representation of Charm and Conscience Fall 1995
Cohen, Ann The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action Spring 1997
Colby, Carol Stockbridge Cemetery Walking Tour Fall 2001
Colby, Carol Review of Degrees of Latitude: Maps of America from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection at the New-York Historical Society Fall 2002
Colford, Ann M. Imagining Perfection in Camden, Maine - Mills, Money, and Maritime Heritage Spring 1998
Colford, Ann M. "It's Just Something I Do": Routines and Rituals in Professional Hockey Spring 1999
Connelly, Angela Do You See What I See? Anglo-American Women viewing the Southwest 1845-1870 Spring 2007
Davala, Bernard Baxter State Park: A Culturally Created Wilderness Spring 1997
Davala, Bernard La Rochefoucault's Travels and Agrarian Resistance in the District of Maine in the 1790s Fall 1996
Deering, Dana G. Industrial Photography and the Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington Railway Spring 1998
Deering, Dana G. Beyond Magazine Jobbery - Rowland Robinson and C.A. Stephens Reexamined Spring 1997
DeGregory, Nicole Irish American Women's Auto-biography Fall 2003
DeGregory, Nicole From Famine to Fortitude: Irish American Women & Manifestations of Ethnicity, Religion and Gender Fall 2003
Deschaine, Matthew Portland's Shaarey Tphiloh Synagogue and the Jewish Architectural Tradition Fall 2004
Deschaine, Matthew The Cultural Politics of Killing a Maine Black Bear Spring 2005
Donahue, Judith Maine Speaks as a Constructor of Regional Images - Sex, Gender, Class and Landscape in Maine Literature Fall 1999
Donahue, Judith P. The Maritime Roots of Freeport, Maine - A "Worldly" Village? Fall 1999
Doughty, Gilbert Who Has the Right to Survive? An Argument for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Environment at Moosehead Lake Spring 2007
Doughty, Gilbert An Ethnography and Exhibit Analysis of the Victoria Mansion Fall 2007
Dresser, Nicole Giving Voice to the Silent: The Differences in Ernest Hebert's Darby, New Hampshire Spring 2000
Dresser, Nicole You Are What You Wear: Clothing as Signifier Race, Class and Ethnicity in American Culture Fall 2000
Drown, Gretchen S. The McLellan-Sweat House: A Case Study in Preservation and the Use of the Past Fall 2001
Dublin-Davis, Penny When Goliath Wrestled Two Davids Summer 2006
Dublin-Davis, Penny Jonesport, Maine: A Contested Othered Landscape Spring 2007
Eastman, Jeff Focus on Region: Northeast Historic Film and The Alamo Theater Museum Fall 2007
Eastman, Jeff A Cultural History of Folk and Country Music in Maine in The Early Broadcasting Era, The 1920s Through the 1950s Fall 2007
Eastman, L.M. Lucify: An Island Legend Fall 1998
Eastman, L.M. The Portland Society of Natural History: The Rise and Fall of a Great Organization Fall 1998
Eaton, Aaron Cape Cod: A Changing Landscape Located in the Perpetual Violence of the Sea Fall 2007
Eaton, Aaron 19th Century Popularization of the White Mountains and Mount Katahdin Fall 2007
Edmondson, Dennis D. Contact and the Fur Trade: The Effect on the Natives of Maine Spring 1994
Edmondson, Dennis D. While Freeport Slept Spring 1995
Ezepek, Joseph Massachusetts Political Autobiography in the Twentieth Century Fall 2000
Ezepek, Joseph Success through Failure: Kennebunkport at the Dawn of the 20th Century Summer 2001
Farkas, Tom Breaking the Jam: An Examination of the Controversy that Ended Log Driving in Maine Summer 1993
Farkas, Tom Changes in the Landscape: An Examination of the Cultural Values Manifested in the Emergence of the Village Center in Mount Vernon, Maine, from 1792 to 1892 Fall 1993
Finnegan, Joseph F. The Transition from Company Town to Mill Town: The Biddeford-Saco Textile Strike of 1898 Fall 1998
Finnegan, Joseph F. Preserving Culture: The Need for Historic Preservation Standards in Downtown Biddeford, Maine Fall 2002
Flagg, Nancy Neill Going the Extra Mile: the Creation of Commercial Street Spring 2000
Flagg, Nancy Neill Out of Place  
Flagg, Susanne M.M. From Foul Flats to Status Stroll Spring 1995
Flagg, Susanne M.M. An Angell in Norway Fall 1994
Flanagan, Deborah M. A Tale of Two Cities: Boston and Lowell Summer 2001
Flanagan, Deborah M. The Lowell Cemetery: "Where Art and Classic Taste Conspire" Summer 2001
Foden, Jane Museums and Marketing Fall 2001
Foden, Jane Visual Images Shape Culture: Yankee Magazine Covers Spring 2002
Fox, Patricia Uncovering "Truths" in Women's Madness: The Memoirs of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sylvia Plath, Susan Keysen and Lauren Slater Fall 2006
Fox, Patricia Latino/a Lives in the Americas Summer 2006
Frothingham, Pamela The Author Existence: Emily Dickinson and Catharine Maria Sedgwick Fall 1992
Frothingham, Pamela Keeping Things: Donald Hall's Sense of Place Fall 1995
Geibel, Victoria Staging the West in N.C. Wyeth's Illustrations Spring 2005
Gerry, Sue A Study of Early Yarmouth Schools Spring 1994
Gerry, Sue Donald Hall: Poetry as Autobiography Spring 1995
Goucher, Pamela Questioning the Boundaries: Images of Region and Gender in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" Books Fall 1999
Goucher, Pamela Understood Dorothy: A Reappraisal of Dorothy Canfield Fisher Using Her Novel for Children, Understood Betsy Spring 2000
Grady, Rachael Thawing the Frozen Indian - Bowdoin College's Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum: From Eskimo to Inughuit Spring 2006
Grady, Rachael The Historic and Economic Construction of Costa Rica's Identity Fall 2006
Hall, John Vermont Farmer Boy: Calvin Coolidge and the Changing New England Regional Identity Fall 2006
Hall, John Katahdin Lake: The Environmental Politics of Land use and Land Access in maine Spring 2007
Henerlau, Wendy Closing the Great Divide: How Westward Emigrants Reconstructed Home and Family in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Spring 2005
Henerlau, Wendy Recipes for Success: The Role of Fiction in Gody's Lady's Book Fall 2005
Higgins, Cheryl 19th Century Notions of Childhood: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the New England Child Fall 1993
Higgins, Cheryl Maple Sugaring in Fryeburg, Maine: The Genre Art of Eastman Johnson Spring 1993
Hildreth, Gary Portsmouth Navy Yard 1800-1877 - The Influences on Spatial Management Spring 2006
Hoppe, Diane Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village Ethnological Study Fall 2007
Howell, Marcia Women and Their Houses in Ruth Moore's The Weir, Spoonhandle, and Candlemas Bay Spring 2000
Howell, Marcia The Creation of Gender and Race in Aunt Jemima Ads Found in The Ladies Home Journal from 1918 to 1920 Fall 1999
Jones, David Peoples, Cultures and Societies in the Mexico/US Borderlands Spring 2007
Joyce, Richard A. Childhood as an Artifact of Place: Post-Civil War America Fall 1994
Joyce, Richard A. The "Noble Savage" and the "Savage Savage": Mythology of the Native American Spring 1994
Knowles, Barbara The Back-to-Nature Movement 1900-1930: Cause and Effect Fall 1990
Knowles, Barbara Miss Sarah Orne Jewett and Ms May Sarton Fall 1992
Lamaestra, Tracy Middle Street Metamorphosis: From 1900-2006 Spring 2007
Lamaestra, Tracy The Architectural Landscapes of Harrison Bird Brown, Charles Quincy Goodhue and John Bradley Hudson: A Visual Documentation of Portland Fall 2007
Lamb, Jack Recovery Stories: Mental Illness and Therapy through Autobiography Fall 2003
Lamb, Jack Becoming a Man: The Creation of a Sexual Identity Fall 2003
Lashua, Christine Feminine Influence: Stowe's use of Northern Domesticity in Uncle Tom's Cabin Spring 2000
Lashua, Christine Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Stratemeyer Syndicate: Or Just Who is Behind Nancy Drew and What are They Doing to Her Now Fall 2000
Lathrop, Kerry Lynn "Clan and the Creation of Self in Selected Memoirs of Girlhood" Fall 2006
Lathrop, Kerry Constructing a Family: Three Generations of Bowdoin Family Portraits Fall 2007
Levy, Howard "When a Lumberman Builds": An Architectural and Historic Analysis of The Pierce Haskell House, 234 Bridge Street, Westbrook, Maine Spring 2000
Levy, Howard Indian Identity in Scarborough Maine Spring 2002
Lyons, Dean How the West is Depicted in Books for Children Spring 1994
Lyons, Dean South of Lost Nation Revisited Spring 1995
Mackiewicz, Jane Garrison (Gary) Keillor Mythmaker Extraordinaire Fall 1994
Makowski, Janice Sarah Staples Libby: "Embedded in the New England Landscape" (Material Culture of An Eighteenth-Century Gravestone) Fall 1996
Makowski, Janice Native American Culture of Scarborough: Pre and Post Contact Spring 1996
Marcotte, Nancy Architecture and Memory Fall 1993
Marcotte, Nancy "The Warm Memory of Grandmother's Kitchen": The Development of Nostalgic Architecture Fall 2004
McFarlane, Anita Kenneth M. Curtis - Transitional Figure in Maine Government Summer 1997
McFarlane, Anita What Happened to the Norridgewock Indians After the August 1724 Massacre? Fall 1997
McNally, Jake Evaluating the Good Life: An Analysis of the 1970's Back-to-the-Land Movement in Maine Summer 2002
McNally, Jake Somehow A Place: Marsden Hartley - The Writer From Maine Spring 2002
Meyn, Tom Tracing the New England Roots of Ecofeminism Spring 1993
Meyn, Tom Don't Fence Me In: New England Stone Walls and a Sense of Place Fall 1994
Monahan, Siobain Helping to Create the Biggest Little City: Amusement Parks in Reno, Nevada, 1900-1915 Spring 2005
Monahan, Siobain Images of a New Domestic Ideal: Advertisements in Life Magazine, 1945-1955 Spring 2005
Morrow, Martina Together We Stand…? An Analysis of Community on Richmond Island in the 17th Century Spring 2001
Morrow, Martina Visions of Place: 17th Century Interpretations of Richmond Island, Maine Fall 2001
Mudgett, Jill Nineteenth-Century Tourism on Peak's Island, Maine: the Changing Meaning and Use of the Landscape Spring 1998
Mudgett, Jill Change in the Rural Economy: Boot and Shoe Production in Calais, Vermont, 1829-1850 Fall 1997
Nelson, Liza Point Lookout: A 19th Century Maine Island Resort Fall 1994
Nelson, Liza The Development of Douglas Park, Maine or The Babbitt of Brunswick Spring 1993
Newick, Marsha Images of Race, Class, Gender, and Regional Identity in To Kill a Mockingbird Spring 1997
Newick, Marsha Sarah Orne Jewett Regional Writing and Her Sense of Place Fall 1996
Nielson, Charles Rural etiquette in Oxford County, Maine Spring 2006
Nielsen, Charles Perversity in Northern New England Fiction Spring 2007
Nourse, Rebecca Gathering up the Fragments: The Folklore of Quilting Fall 2002
Nourse, Rebecca Romanticizing Old New England: Nostalgia and the Colonial Revival in Autobiography Spring 2003
Nowinski, Michelle R. John Sloan and the City as Spectacle: Constructing Images of Class Distinction, Consumer Culture, and Sexualized Working-Class Women through the Use of Looking Fall 1999
O'Connor, Jaime L. A Closer Look at How Agricultural Fairs in Maine Represent Nature Fall 2000
O'Connor, Jaime L. "We Climb to Conquer": The Men of the Tenth Mountain Division and Their Contribution to the West's Skiing Industry Spring 2001
O'Mahoney, Brian Meaning of Guantanamo Summer 2006
O'Mahoney, Brian A Town Like Empire Falls: The Importance of Class in Three Novels by Richard Russo Fall 2005
Paton, John Letters Back Home Mainers in the California Gold Rush Spring 2007
Paton, John

Portland Harbor Museum: A Small Museum on the Rise

Fall 2007
Peasley, Tracy Gone With the Wind: The Construction of the Southern Woman Shaped by the 1920s/1930s Image of the "New Woman" and the Woman's Film Heroine Fall 1997
Peasley, Tracy Sanford Phippen's Construction of the "Real" Maine, "Real" Maine People, and "Real" Maine Authors Spring 1997
Petit, Nicole K. Irish American Women's Autobiography: Ethnicity, Gender & Religion in the 20th Century Fall 2003
Petit, Nicole K. From Famine to Fortitude: Irish American Women & Manifestations of Ethnicity, Religion and Gender Fall 2003
Phillips, Jean What's Next? Revisionist Westerns After Dances with Wolves Spring 2007
Platt, Gina The Visual Implications of Lynching Photography on an American Audience, 1889-2006 Fall 2004
Powers, Matthew The Legend of Chocorua: Analysis of a Folkloric Tradition Fall 2004
Powers, Matthew Strategies of Passing Fall 2005
Puri, Anuka Interpretations of Place: New England, Winslow Homer and Regionalism Fall 2000
Puri, Anuka Lives with Recipes: Cookbooks as Foodways Autobiography Fall 2000
Richardson, Cynthia A. Along the Knife's Edge: A Brief History of Nineteenth Century Chocorua, New Hampshire: Its Environment, Culture and Legend 1995-1996
Richardson, Cynthia The Power of Madame Restell: A Backward Gaze onto the Public Regulation of the Private Body Spring 1996
Rogan, Doreen Falcouner A Town Divided by Tourism: Tourists of a Different Class 1880-1920 Fall 2001
Rogan, Doreen Falcouner Indian Legends and Legendary Indians, Tourists Gather'round: Tourism, the Colonial Revival Movement and Indians - York, Maine 1876-1930 Spring 2002
Romano, Laura Sense of Place as a Direct Correlation to Sense of Well-Being: A Study of the People of Belgrade, Maine Fall 2001
Romano, Laura Where the Doll Sleeps: The Value of Oral History Fall 2001
Ryan, Marguerite A Study of a Lithograph of Lawrence, Massachusetts by J.B. Bachelder Spring 1997
Ryan, Marguerite Knitting as Material Folklore Spring 1996
Ryder, Marianne Indian Hill: An Ideal New England Village for an Industrial City Fall 2003
Ryder, Marianne Working in the Maine Woods: Carl Sprinchorn and the Seboeis River Drive Spring 2003
Sasser, Daryl Border Crossings: The Destabilization of Race and Morality in Touch of Evil by Orson Wells Spring 2001
Sasser, Daryl Acceptable Levels of Hypocrisy: An Analysis of Nature's Rights Fall 2000
Schoonover, Jim Post World War Two America and High Noon Spring 2000
Schoonover, Jim Thoreau and Mosher: Joe Polis and Bangor as Native American Representations Spring 1997
Shaw, Patricia T. Sarah Haven Foster: Writer, Painter, 19th Century Feminist  
Shaw, Patricia T. The Shapiro Project Summer 1996
Shearman, Patricia Consuming Grief: Grave Markers as Material Culture in the Nineteenth Century Spring 2007
Shearman, Patricia Cultivate Good Cheer: Ardelia Prince of Buckfield, Maine 1835-1927 Diarias as Place Narratives Fall 2007
Sikes, Sara Picturing Geography: Cover Imagery and Composite Illustrations of School Geographics, 1870-1900 Fall 2003
Sikes, Sara Artists' Representations of Self: The Autobiographies and Self-Portraiture of Cecilia Beaux, Marsden Hartley and Thomas Hart Bention Fall 2003
Smith, Janice M. Born Again, American Style: An Analysis of Ethnic Immigrant Autobiography in Twentieth Century New England Fall 2000
Smith, Janice M. Odd Bedfellows: The Relationship of Northern and Southern Maine Summer 2000
Spring, Gary The Wild Western in Our Heads Spring 2001
Spring, Gary T6R8: Matagamon Spring 2001
Springer, Deborah Isabella Stewart Gardner: Her Image as Queen of the Boston Renaissance Fall 1994
Springer, Deborah L.L. Bean and the Maine Hunting Lodge: Images of Maine as the Traditional Fraternal Retreat for the American Upper Class Fall 1995
Stacy, Maryann L. Agamenticus Hills Spring 1995
Stacy, Maryann L. Social Discord at the Isles of Shoals Summer 1994
Streeter, Michael C.A. Stephens: Keeper of the Dream Spring 2007
Sullivan, Peter E. 1993 Commemoratie Edition of Sarah Orne Jewett's Deephaven a Perspective Spring 1994
Sullivan, Peter E. A Sense of Place in Sarah Orne Jewett's Deephaven A Perspective Fall 1994
Turet, Rea "Let's Go to the Video Tape" Skewing the News Spring 1996
Turet, Rea The Public Eye and the Private Eye of the Theatre Actress 1900-1905 Spring 1996
VanderSchaaf, Dietlind Death for Sale: The Evolution of Portland's Funeral Industry 1850-1920 Fall 2001
VanderSchaaf, Dietlind Just Looking: Voyeurism, Surveillance & Display in the Art of John Sloan Spring 2002
Wallach, Darren True Reflections of Healing? Popular Weekly News Magazine's Portrayal of the New Age Spirituality Movement and its Leaders (1990-2002) Fall 2002
Wallach, Darren The Cutts Family Portraits: Analyzing a prominent Federal Era Saco, Maine family through protraits and historical background Summer 2002
Webster, Lauren C. Queering the Domestic Sphere: Sarah Orne Jewett's Work and Life Fall 2005
Webster, Lauren C. Tinned Meat and Trailers: The Cultural Labor of SPAM in Hawaii and Mainland America Spring 2007
Whittier, Lizabeth The Influence of Maria Montessori in Selected Works by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Spring 2002
Whittier, Lizabeth The Heart of the Children's Museum of Maine Fall 2007
Wiley, Elizabeth O. A New Woman's Place: An Examination of George Bellows' Two Women Spring 1996
Wiley, Elizabeth O. No Simple Truth: Lobstering Images of the Mid-Twentieth Century Spring 1997
Winterfalcon, Madeleine Reinventing the Self: Lesbians and Rural Life Fall 1998
Winterfalcon, Naomi Boudicea Riding on the Cusp of History and Legend: Contemporary Ties to Pre-Roman Britian Spring 2006
Wishart, Peggy Proven Pequot: Authenticating Identity at the Mashantucket pequot Museum and Research Center Summer 2005
Wishart, Peggy The Lawton Family fo Freetown, Massachusetts: A Small Port Perspective on New England's Maritime History During the Age of Sail Spring 2006