Skip to main navigation Skip to site navigation Skip to content

Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center

Latest Past Events

Franco Americans, Acadians, and the Great War: The Legacies of WWI

Franco-American Centre 110 Crossland Hall, UMaine, Orono

This panel will examine Franco American experience during and after World War I. This spring marks one hundred years since the first Red Scare, landmark pieces of linguistic and educational legislation in New England, and Franco Americans’ Worchester convention, all which were closely connected to Francos’ wartime experience. Speakers Severin M. Beliveau, "My Father’s experience […]

Film: They Shall Not Grow Old

Nutting Hall University of Maine, Orono

As part of our Symposium series, the MHC presents a showing of They Shall Not Grow Old. Using state of the art technology to restore original archival footage which is more than a 100-years old, Jackson brings to life the people who can best tell this story: the men who were there. Driven by a personal […]

Memorializing WWI in Maine and Beyond

Nutting Hall University of Maine, Orono

As part of our Symposium series, Libby Bischof, Executive Director, Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education; Zach Beals, Graduate Assistant for Veterans Education and Transition Services; and Tony Llerena, Coordinator of Veterans Education and Transition Services will present a lecture: Memorializing WWI in Maine and Beyond. Libby's talk will be based on […]

Top