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History

Published
April 27, 2023

Otisfield students produce living history reenactment

Otisfield Elementary School teacher Pamela Marshall's fifth-grade class recently brought American history alive with a reenactment of the Continental Army's experience at Valley Forge during the American Revolution.
Published
April 9, 2023

Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House

Rebecca Boggs Roberts's 'Untold Power' is a riveting look at a president's powerful spouse and her efforts to conceal his illness.
Published
April 7, 2023

Commentary: Eisenhower’s misgivings about military power still carry weight

Seventy years ago this month, he warned that expenditures justified as essential to preserving the American way of life undermine what they purport to uphold.
Published
April 7, 2023

Commentary: The year that opened my eyes to the best and worst we can do

1989 taught me that people collectively are responsible for change – and I’ll always remain committed to education as a force for informed change.
Published
April 4, 2023

Maine Voices: Fifty-five years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, his teachings still ring true

Tyre Nichols’ brutal beating death in Memphis vindicates Dr. King’s 1964 warning about the risks to the lives of Black people at the hands of police.

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Published
March 22, 2023

Commentary: Supporting U.S. bases in the Philippines isn’t an option

A recent agreement to expand the U.S. military’s presence in the Philippines is concerning, given the United States’ century-long record of human rights abuses there.
Published
March 3, 2023

Paul Mills: In 1976, Maine helped elect a president

Carter gained vital traction by winning Maine’s caucus, and his Maine lieutenant quickly grasped that the candidate’s Southern roots were the key to a Democratic White House comeback.
Published
February 28, 2023

Maine Voices: Putin’s war in Ukraine requires us to maintain a difficult balance

We must continue to fight and to resist domination, at the same time that we keep seeking an alternative to arms and to annihilating one another.
Published
February 24, 2023

Commentary: Malcolm X was way ahead of his time

Before his assassination, 58 years ago this week, he journeyed from street hustler and prisoner to international voice for the oppressed. Who knows what he could have become?
Published
February 21, 2023

Maine Voices: I am grateful to you, Jimmy Carter, for being my role model

You have lived your ideals and made a real difference in the world, holding on to hope even as some of your biggest accomplishments have been dismantled.