History

History 2607 / ES 2447 Reading Guide

Reading Guide and Electronic Reserve Reading Links

• Week 1
  • Introduction:   Thinking Historically
  • Overview:  The Land of Norumbega:  Doing Maine History
• Week 2
  • Environmental History
  • Community History
• Week 3
  • The First Traveler’s Tale:  Christopher Levett’s Voyage
  • The Coast:  The Earliest Settlements
• Week 4
  • Library Tour: Zoom meeting with Barbara Levergood, Data Services Librarian 
  • The Ecological Impact of the Contact of Cultures
• Week 5
  • The Encounter in Maine and Northern New England
  • Maine in the Early Republic:  The Northeastern Frontier
• Week 6
  • The Kennebec Proprietors and the Backcountry Squatters
  • Hallowell and Augusta:  The Maine Frontier in the Early Republic or
    Individual research project conferences
• Week 7
  • Spring break
  • The Second Traveler's Tale:  Landscapes and Settlements in the District of Maine
• Week 8
  • Radical Religion and Utopian Aspirations in Maine, 1783-1920
  • Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century Maine
• Week 9
  • The Maine Woods
  • The Third Traveler’s Tale:  The Maine Woods
• Week 10
  • Farming on the Maine Coast
  • Coastal and Island Economies
• Week 11
  • Deep-Sea Fisheries and Lobster Fishing
  • African American Communities in Maine
• Week 12
  • Immigration and Industrialization:  The French-Canadian Migration to Madawaska and the Mill Community in Lewiston
  • Tourism and Anti-Modernism:  The Search for Olde New England
• Week 13
  • Tourism, The “Wilderness,” and Wilderness Preservation
  • Conservation and Public Policy
• Week 14
  • Work-in-Progress Reports
• Week 15
  • Conclusion