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For Women's History Month, we rebroadcast our show about the remarkable women in Maine history
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History of snowshoeing in Maine, where to go, how snowshoes are made
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The landmark state law passed more than two decades ago mandates that Maine schools to teach Wabanaki history, economics and culture. But a report issued two years ago found the law had never been fully implemented and that the Maine Department of Education largely did not enforce it.
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Former U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Meville Fuller had been in the majority for the court's 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson that approved of "separate but equal" accommodations for Blacks and contributed to Jim Crow laws. But Maine author Douglas Rooks says to truly understand Fuller's position on Plessy requires some historical context.
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The lesser known aspects of Chamberlain's life, as well as his Civil War legacy
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The roughly 40-acre island in Casco Bay was once home to several dozen Black and mixed-race families but was cleared more than a century by the state.
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The history and role of Maine's Christmas tree industry, and what to know about fresh-cut trees
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What are the historic places and buildings in Maine that are most in peril, and what can be done to save them
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Historical context and analysis of the latest development in the Israeli-Hamas war
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's latest book is set in a fictionalized version of Maine's Malaga Island