Past 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
Events & Presentations
The Princes of Portland: The Brown Family of Bramhall and Thornhurst. An 1822 Circle Event.
Representing Race in Mid-Century Maine - a discussion of the film Lost Boundaries with Dr. Ardis Cameron
Voices from the Barrens - a film discussion
Becoming Maine - a talk with Liam Riordan
Connecting Maine's Capitals by Stagecoach - a talk with Leland J. Hanchett, Jr.
An Apple History of Maine - a talk with John Bunker
Freedom's Woods: The African American Community of Peterborough in Warren, Maine - a talk with Dr. Kate McMahon
Mémère's Notebook - A Night of Acadian Music with Robert Sylvain
The Great Upheaval of 1675-1725: How Wars, Rebellions, and Refugee Crises Shaped Early America. Two parts.
Annual Olmsted Lecture: Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes
Book Talks
Maine at 200 Series: Maine Bicentennial Community Cookbook: a talk with Margaret Hathaway, Karl Schatz, and Don Lindgren
Chowder Rules!: a book reading with Anna Crowley Redding and Vita Lane
A History of Maine Railroads: a book talk with author Bill Kenny
Cross of Snow - A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a book talk with author Nicholas A. Basbanes
Congress at War - How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America: a book talk with Fergus M. Bordewich
Billboard Monuments of Maine: A Collection of Rare 1800s Gravestones: a book talk with Ron Romano
Lost on a Mountain in Maine: 75th anniversary event including memories from Donn Fendler
Dialogues & Interviews
Pandemics in Wabanaki Communities - a conversation with James Eric Francis, Sr.
Mapping Maine: A conversation with Jamie Rice and Steve Bromage, both of Maine Historical Society. An 1822 Circle Event.
Liberty Men, Great Proprietors, and Maine Today: A Lecture and Conversation with Alan Taylor
Maine's Complex Relationship with the Slave Economy & the Global Slave Trade with Dr. Kate McMahon, Museum Specialist and Jamie Rice, MHS Dir. of Collections & Research
Acadians in Maine: A Conversation with Lise Pelletier, Director, Archives Acadiennes, University of Maine, Fort Kent, and Tilly Laskey, MHS Curator
Pandemics in Maine—Then and Now: A Conversation with Dr. Richard Kahn and Steve Bromage
Past Maine History Maker Award events
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