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History Department Undergraduates, Graduates, and Faculty -- Join Us! We will be making a tour of the Bangor City Forest's Bog Boardwalk on October 15 at 10:00.  Stroll through a […]

Stephen Mitchell, Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University, will speak on “Place and Past in the Sagas: Relique or Blank Slate” Oct 17 Saga event_revised_letter-1

Program for UMaine-UNB Invites Flyer for Graduate Student Conference  

Mark Hineline: History, Climate Change, and the "Specific Sciences" Description

Discussion of historian Dipesh Chakrabarty's "The Climates of History: Four Theses." The article can be found at: http://www.library.umaine.edu/auth/EZProxy/test/authej.asp?url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/596640  

Description: In the 1960s, Henry David Thoreau became an symbol of American dissent: a Walden Pond drop-out, an anti-war anarchist, a theorist of civil disobedience, and even a drug-user.  Dr. Judd will describe this unprecedented notoriety as an episode in Thoreau’s rise from obscurity in 1862 to near universal recognition a century later.  The intense […]

On February 6th at 3:10pm Michael Socolow, an associate professor in Communication and Journalism, will speak on  "Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics." The link for the symposium poster can be found below. Six Minutes in Berlin