On-Demand Programs and Podcasts
On the go, or prefer the podcast platform? Visit the MHS podcast page for a selection of unique programs and podcasts on a wide selection of historical topics!
General Maine History
Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812
Book Talk with Dr. Joshua M. Smith
Recorded on November 9, 2022
The Best Ever!: Parades in New England, 1788–1940
Book Talk with Jane Nylander
Recorded on September 21, 2022
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
Book Talk with Alan Taylor
Recorded on April 26, 2022
Green Acre: An "Experiment" in Eliot, Maine in the 1890s and Beyond
A talk with Dr. Anne Gordon Perry
Recorded on December 14, 2021
The Unlikeliness of It All, Part 1: An Insider's Perspective: A Small Maine Town's History of Resilience, Transformation, Collaboration, Immigration, and its Global Singularity
A book talk with Phil Nadeau
Recorded on December 7, 2021
The Wreck of the Steamship Portland: Rediscovering the Titanic of New England
A Talk with Dr. Calvin Mires
Recorded on November 17, 2021
A Man, A Horse-Drawn Wagon, and a Moving Panorama:
The Travels of L. E. Emerson
A Talk with Peter Morelli
Recorded on November 8, 2021
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
