Louis Sockalexis broke a different color barrier in baseball 50 years before Jackie Robinson started for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a red man. And unlike Jackie Robinson, he couldn’t handle the taunts and insults, the war whoops in the ...

In the fall of 1931, 27-year-old Molly Spotted Elk was far from home and unsure about marrying her French journalist lover. She didn’t know if two people from such different worlds could work it out. Molly Spotted Elk was the ...

The Great Bangor Fire of 1911 wiped out much of the business district, but rebuilding it brought prosperity to a poor French-Canadian family. Ovide Morin was born in 1862 in St. Epphane, Quebec. Times were hard. Children went barefoot in ...

In January 1900, 17-year-old Lucy Nicolar traveled from her home on Indian Island in Penobscot County, Maine, to New York City where she attended a debate about immigration. Lucy, a Penobscot Indian, was also known as Princess Watahwaso. The debaters ...