Maine
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3.4KA Lynching in Maine: What Happened to James Cullen
A lynching in Maine is an unusual thing. Throughout New England, lynching was extremely rare. Most lynching occurred in states in the...
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6.5KThe Murder of Mary Bean, Pregnant Mill Girl
One spring day in Saco, Maine, Osgood Stevens, 14, was having trouble clearing debris from Woodbury Brook. He couldn’t dislodge a whitewashed...
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6.9KKetchup Made With Sugar? An Offense Against God For Some Mainers
The old saying “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” may have applied to politics, but never to ketchup. The historic novelist...
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5.3KWhen New Englanders Feared a French-Canadian Immigrant Conquest
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
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5.4K1Beginner’s Guide to the French and Indian Wars, All Six of Them
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for...
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8.4KThe Ladies of Gray, Maine, Bury an Unknown Confederate Soldier
The Ladies of Gray had good reason to despise the Confederacy and its people. The small Maine town sent 200 of its...
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