On-Demand Programs and Podcasts
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Access the growing variety of online Maine Historical Society programming. Recorded content is regularly updated for you to watch and listen for the first time—or enjoy again—so bookmark this page and visit often!
Selections include virtual programs on special topics and guest interviews, research tips, youth lesson activities, and videos of in-person events, talks and recognition celebrations.
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Podcasts
On the go, or prefer the podcast platform? Visit the podcast page for a selection of MHS podcasts on a wide selection of historical topics!
Videos
BEGIN AGAIN Series
The Know-Nothings Menace: When Hate, Fear, and Prejudice Ruled Maine and America
BEGIN AGAIN SERIES: A Talk with Matt Barker
Recorded on August 19, 2021
Nineteenth-Century Black Politics in Maine: Historical Research and Legacies
BEGIN AGAIN SERIES: Panel Discussion
Recorded on July 22, 2021
Major Episodes of Colonial Racism in Maine State Indian History and Policy
BEGIN AGAIN SERIES: A Talk with Darren Ranco
Recorded on July 20, 2021
200 Years of Jews in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN SERIES: A Conversation with David Freidenreich
Recorded on June 24, 2021
From Chinese Laundress to Mother of the Year: Bringing the Story of Toy Len Goon Beyond the Model Minority Myth
BEGIN AGAIN SERIES: A Talk with Dr. Andrea Louie
Recorded on June 17, 2021
The Coming of the Invisible People
BEGIN AGAIN SERIES: A Talk with Bob Greene
Recorded on June 10, 2021
"Doing One's First Works Over": Imagining a New America
BEGIN AGAIN SERIES: A Talk with Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr.
Recorded on May 20, 2021
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN SERIES: Curator Panel Discussion
Recorded on May 12, 2021
Arts and Creativity
A Century of Portland Painters, 1820 - 1920
Maine at 200 Series: A Talk with Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., State Historian
Recorded on February 25, 2021
Cross of Snow - A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a book talk with author Nicholas A. Basbanes
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on September 10, 2020
Billboard Monuments of Maine: A Collection of Rare 1800s Gravestones: a book talk with Ron Romano
Recorded on July 9, 2020
General Maine History
Cooking is Community: A Look at Historic Maine Community Cookbooks
A Talk with Don Lindgren, Margaret Hathaway, and Karl Schatz
Recorded on August 10, 2021
MHS HISTORIAN'S FORUM: Investing in Empire -The Pejepscot Proprietors and Their World
An interactive roundtable
Recorded on August 7, 2021
Historic Taverns and Tea Rooms of Maine
A book launch with Bill and Kathy Kenny
Recorded on June 7, 2021
Mortality and Memorialization in Portland at the Time of Statehood
A Talk with Ron Romano
Recorded on April 1, 2021
Off to Maine: Early Sportsmen in the Maine Woods
A Talk with Steve Pinkham
Recorded on March 25, 2021
Maine's Bicentennial: Looking Backward and Forward - A Conversation with Colin Woodard
**MHS MEMBERS EXCLUSIVE! Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on March 11, 2021
Dividing the Faith: The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North
- a book talk with Richard Boles
Recorded on March 4, 2021
True North: Finding the Essence of Aroostook - a book talk with Kathryn Olmstead
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on February 18, 2021
New England Coast Guard Stories: Remarkable Mariners
A book talk with Dyke Nedrickson
Recorded on January 13, 2021
Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook: A Talk with Margaret Hathaway, Karl Schatz, and Don Lindgren
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on December 7, 2020
Chowder Rules! - a book reading with Anna Crowley Redding and Vita Lane
Recorded on November 14, 2020
Connecting Maine's Capitals by Stagecoach - a talk with Leland J. Hanchett, Jr.
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on October 13, 2020
Mapping Maine: A conversation with Jamie Rice and Steve Bromage
An 1822 Circle Event
Recorded on July 30, 2020
Maine's Complex Relationship with the Slave Economy & the Global Slave Trade
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on June 4, 2020
Pandemics in Maine: Then and Now - A Conversation with Dr. Richard Kahn and Steve Bromage
Recorded on April 28, 2020
Lost on a Mountain in Maine: 75th Anniversary
with Pine Tree Council, Boy Scouts of America
Recorded on August 16, 2014
Nature and Agriculture
Up for Grabs: Timber Pirates, Lumber Barons, and the Battles Over Maine's Public Lands
Book Talk with Thomas Urquhart
Recorded on June 15, 2021
An Apple History of Maine - a talk with John Bunker
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on October 14, 2020
Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes - a film screening and discussion with Patrick Chasse and Anne Cleves Symmes
Annual Olmsted Lecture
Recorded on June 24, 2020
People of Maine
MHS HISTORIAN'S FORUM: Ulster Scots Migrations in Early America
Interactive program with Ian Saxine, Patrick Griffin, and T. H. Breen
Recorded on July 17, 2021
It's A Family Affair: A Personal Conversation about Black History in Maine
with Bob Greene, Garrett Stewart, Pam Cummings and Krystal Williams
Recorded on March 3, 2021
A Convenient Soldier: The Black Guards of Maine - A Talk with Asata Radcliffe
Recorded on December 3, 2020
The Princes of Portland: The Brown family of Bramhall & Thornhurst
1822 LEADERSHIP CIRCLE EXCLUSIVE!
Recorded on December 2, 2020
Recorded on November 12, 2020
Pandemics in Wabanaki Communities - a conversation with James Eric Francis, Sr.
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on November 11, 2020
Liberty Men, Great Proprietors, and Maine Today: A Lecture and Conversation with Alan Taylor
MHS MEMBERS EXCLUSIVE! **Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on October 8, 2020
Freedom's Woods: The African American Community of Peterborough in Warren, Maine - a talk with Dr. Kate McMahon
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on September 14, 2020
Politics, Law, and Activism
Panic in the Senate: The Fight Over the Second Bank of the United States and the American Presidency
A book talk with Michael Trapani
Recorded on July 7, 2021
REDACT: A panel discussion on the redaction of Maine’s 1820 Constitution
Recorded on November 19, 2020
Science, Technology, and Industry
Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry
A book talk with Michael G. Hillard
Recorded on May 4, 2021
Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth-Century
a book talk with Zachary Dorner
Recorded on January 27, 2021
Medicine in Early Maine
Maine at 200 Series: A Talk with Dr. Richard Kahn
Recorded on January 7, 2021
A History of Maine Railroads: a book talk with author Bill Kenny
**Maine at 200 Series**
Recorded on September 24, 2020
Tips & Resources
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