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Author Title Year
Allen, Edward A Late Nineteenth Century Rural Community 1992
Armbruster, Elif (Sinanoglu) Housing the Self: Identity Construction and the Role of Houses in the Novels of Edith Wharton 2000
Ashley, Hannah Streets, Parks, Yards, and Houses 1992
Aston, Diane Converting the Choir: Terry Tempest Williams's Ecofeminist Challenge to Mormon Perspectives 2004
Bachelder, Elizabeth A Flame for Their Souls: The Antislavery Work of Maine Women 1838-1856 2004
Belmonte, Kevin 'a reckonable writer' Robert P. Tristram Coffin's place in Twentieth Century American Poetry 2009
Blanchard, Jennifer Her Object is Good: Ann S. Stephen and Portland Magazine 1998
Burk, John Unintentional Revolution: The Connecticut River Diversion Proposal and Massachusetts Water Supply Planning 1997
Burns, Constance Private Sphere/Public Sphere 1993
Callahan, Sharon With Pencil in Hand 1998
Clough, Stanwyn Zion Upon a Hill: Portland's A.M.E. Zion Church and Social Uplift in the Progressive Era 1994
Cournoyer, Jill C. Victorian Retreat to Amusement Capital: The Transformation of Old Orchard Beach, Maine at the Turn of the Century 1996
Cumming, Nan Fin De Siecle Diana: The New Woman Discovers the Maine Woods 1996
Cunningham, Denyse Dictates of Deportment: Etiquette Books 1880-1900 1995
Daggett, Kendrick Price Rising In the East: Order and Identity in the Mapping of a Maine Town During the Federal Period 1999
Dalpra, Benjamin Poor TI Jean: Mapping Jack Kerouac's America 2007
DeWolfe, Scott Simply Shaker: The Rise and Development of Popular Images of the Shakers 1991
Ervin, Mona The Diary of Susan Jumper, Revelations of a Rural Woman, 1844-1846 1992
Fahey, Kevin Work and Play: An Employee's View of the General Electric Employees Athletic Association 1994
Field, Jacqueline Silk and society: Silk Manufacturers and Users 1870-1930 1997
Flanagan (Mahns), Teresa Mourning on the Pejepscot 1990
Gadberry, Greg "A Contagion of Quakerism:" The Society of Friends in Falmouth and Portland, Maine from the Settlement Through the Revolution 1997
Giguere, Lisa Making Connections: Community Building in Lewiston, Maine, 1770-1815 1996
Johnson, Arthur Indian-White Identity Conflict and the American Revolution: The 1775 Expedition to Quebec and Indian Contact in the Borderland Region of Canada and Maine 2004
Johnson, Thomas Progress and Preservation in the Designed Environment 2004
Keefer-Norris, Zoe Indian Motifs at Maine Summer Camps 2008
Lee, Carolyn An Historical-Cultural Analysis of the Nautical Journal of Katherine Thorndike Amesbury 1995
Lilly, Paige "Many Plans and Many Puzzles": One Woman's Self-Construction in Post-Victorian New England 1997
Mantler, Elsbeth Achieving a Better Understanding of the Future of the Maine Woods Through Local Art and the Writings of Henry David Thoreau 2009
Marlatt, Ellen Health, Beauty, and Identity on Account: The Female Consumer and The Apothecary in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1870-1890 1997
Masterman, Drew Real Yankees Root for the Red Sox; or The Emergence of a "Modern" New England Icon 2002
Matoian, Stephen M. Two Cultures, One Land: Native American Food Technology and English Exploration Settlement of New England, 1500-1650 1995
Medeiros, Phyllis The Seeds and the Soil: The Planting of the Freewill Baptist Church in Hollis, Buxton and Gorham, Maine, 1780-1820 1993
Merrill, Joanne The Economy of a Tradition: The Importance of Basketmaking to the Survival of the Wabanaki Culture 2004
Midwood, Lydia Christ Church Hospital, 1860-1900 1999
Mitchell, Christi A. During Her Natural Life Accordingly 2001
Mobley, Marianne "Know Not the Hyphen:" Constructions of "Indian" Imagery 2000
Morgan, Michelle "Pictures of the Most Vulgarly Suggestive Sort": Imaging Deviance and the Female Body on Progressive Era Postcards 2009
Mosher, John No Greater Abomination: Ethnicity, Class, and Power Relations on Malaga Island, Maine, 1880-1912 1991
Mulhern, Molly I Get Little Time: Julie Palmer Smith, 19th Century Novelist 1994
Murphy, Daniel Creation of Ethnic Identity: St. Dominic's Parish Life in Portland's Antebellum Years, 1828-1861 2004
Nadeau, Paula La Kermesse Parade: A Celebration of Franco-American Heritage Set in Contemporary Community Life 1993
Nicholson, Todd Myth and Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Merchant Marine: The Case of John Griffin Dillingham 2009
Niles, Patricia Those Weaving Women: A Social History of Pre-Industrial Textile Production in Northern New England 1785-1830 1994
Norman, Craig S. Agent of Change: A Pre-Industiral Cultural Landscape Analysis in the Colonial Maine Frontier 2000
O'Brien, Kerry Consuming Interests: Class, Ethnicity, and Consumption in Biddeford, Maine, 1890-1915 1993
O'Sullivan, Robin Where God Makes Men: A Cultural Biography of the Old Man of the Mountain 2004
Richards, David Reconstructing the Boundaries of Community 1991
Ryall, Allison Hired Red Labor: Contract Laborers from Tsarist Russia 1900-1917 2008
Sacks, Marie Luisetti Different Voices: Cultural and Class Diversity on the Maine Frontier 1760-1820 2001
Seals, Nova New England and the Sea: Representations of Maritime Identity and Heritage 2004
Souliere, Yvonne Education and Gender: The Misses Martin's School for Young Ladies, Portland, Maine, 1803-1834 1993
Standish, Carol C. Contexts for Change: Influences on Ogunquit's Emergence as an Art Colony, 1872-1922 1996
Stevens, Gary R. "Our Shangri-la": New England as Commodity at Ocean Point, 1876-1930 2000
Stoffan, Mark A. The Rangley Lakes, 1860-1900: Tourism, Sporting Activity, and the Commodification of the Maine Woods Image 1996
Sullivan, Lynn The Economic Transformation and Historical Invention in 20th Century Freeport, Maine  
Tremper, Kathy Reconfiguring Porgy: Reactions to a Racial Text from Play to Opera to Hollywood Spectacular  
Vose, Margaret Beachfront Property for Sale: An Analysis of our Relationship with Beaches 2003
Wallace, Mary Ann Days of Joy and Fear: Nineteenth Century New England Family Life at Sea 1993
Weight, David Words from the Woods: The Personal Narratives of Maine Deer Hunters 1999
Zhang, Shu Harriet Beecher Stowe and Domesticity in the Nineteenth Century