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CanAm Lecture: Dr. Margaret Pearce, “Imagination, identity, and the cartography of history: 3 maps of Canada”

Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, UMaine Orono, United States

From Dr. Pearce: In this talk, I introduce cartography as a form of language and demonstrate how I’ve worked with that language to explore and express Canadian history. I present three maps: the route of a North West Company clerk in 1797, the travels of Samuel de Champlain between 1603 and 1616, and a map […]

CanAm Lecture: Ann Little, Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands”

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, UMaine Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

LUNCH PROVIDED Lecture by Ann Little (Colorado State Univ.), “The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands” in the Bumps Room of the Student Union, Thursday, Oct. 3 from noon to 1:30 pm (with free lunch!). Emphasizes the methodology in writing about a person with little traditional historical evidence to […]

Free

CanAm Lecture: Geoff Cunfer, “Energy Markets and the Collapse of the Northern Plains Bison”

FFA Room, Memorial Union, UMaine Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

LUNCH PROVIDED. Bison decline in the Southern Plains is a famous story in American environmental history. Herds were also decimated on the Canadian prairies, but the causes were quite different. This presentation will contrast the free-for-all petty capitalist markets for bison products in the United States with the monopoly corporate market run by Canada’s Hudson’s […]

Free

Patrick Callaway, “Nova Scotia and the ‘New Empire’ 1783-1815”

Bangor Room, Memorial Union China Road, Orono, ME, United States

Please join us at the Memorial Union (Bangor Room) for "Nova Scotia and the 'New Empire' 1783-1815", a presentation of graduate research by UMaine PhD candidate Patrick Callaway. This event is free and open to the public. A boxed lunch is provided. We hope to see you there! Click here for our Facebook event!

POSTPONED Daniel Soucier, “Navigating Wilderness and Borderland”

Bumps Room, Memorial Union, UMaine Orono campus China Road, Orono, ME, United States

This event has been postponed. We anticipate that it will be rescheduled during the Fall 2020 semester. Please join us for our final Spring 2020 graduate research presentation. History PhD candidate Daniel Soucier will present, "Navigating Wilderness and Borderland" on Wednesday, April 8 in the Bumps Room of the Memorial Union. This event is free […]

Free

Carol Blasi, “The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie”

Please join us for a graduate research presentation entitled "The Case for Seigneurialism in l’Acadie: A Legal Historical Approach to Land Tenure in Acadian Agricultural Settlements in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries" by Carol Blasi. Carol received her PhD in History from the University of Maine in August 2019. She currently teaches as an […]

Free

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