2016 Ocean Technology Conference: Full video archive now available!
The full proceedings of our recent conference, Ocean Technology in New England and Atlantic Canada, are now available for viewing on our official YouTube channel.
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Historical Atlas of Maine receives award from Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
The Historical Atlas of Maine was honored with a 2016 Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing at ceremony on Thursday, May 26 at SPACE in downtown Portland. Canadian-American Center Director Prof. Stephen Hornsby and publisher Michael Alpert received the award. View photos of the event. For more information about the Atlas or to place an order, […]
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Historical Atlas of Maine wins top AAG award!
The Canadian-American Center is proud to announce that the Historical Atlas of Maine has been recognized by the American Association of Geographers as the winner of the 2016 Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography. The volume has been recognized for its rigorous yet engaging portrayal of Maine’s geography across thousands of years. For more information about […]
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Just published: La contre-culture au Quebec
Frederic Rondeau’s latest publication, La contre-culture au Québec, has been published by University of Montreal Press. The volume is an edited collection of texts concerning the Quebec counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Click here for more information or to order!
Read moreMaps: Exploring the World featured on NPR
Map: Exploring the World, which features a map published by the Canadian-American Center, has been spotlighted by NPR’s All Things Considered! Listen/read here: ‘Map’ Is An Exquisite Record Of The Miles – And The Millennia
Read moreCanAm map featured in new book!
The new best-selling volume Map: Exploring the World, published by Phaidon Press, features a map published by the Canadian-American Center. They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada created by Michael James Hermann and Margaret Wickens Pearce can be found on page 115. To learn more about our Champlain map or to […]
Read moreHistorical Atlas of Maine featured in UMaine Today
Discovering Maine New atlas offers a unique perspective on the state’s history by Margaret Nagle, UMaine Today, University of Maine Maine’s North Woods first called Henry David Thoreau in 1846, when he traveled the West Branch of the Penobscot in a bateau and scaled Mount Katahdin. Over the next 11 years, the philosopher-naturalist made two […]
Read moreHistorical Atlas of Maine featured in Bangor Daily News & Portland Press Herald
From ice age to digital age, ‘Historical Atlas of Maine’ completed after 15 years of work by Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News After 15 years, the creation of more than 300 maps, countless hours spent pouring over old documents and lots of careful editing, the “Historical Atlas of Maine,” a colorful, fact-packed volume detailing 15,000 […]
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