Donald Trump faces possible conviction by the U.S. Senate for provoking insurrection by sending a marauding crowd to the Capitol. Impeached once previously, he was tried and acquitted by the Senate, allowing him to remain in office. But the voters ended his presidency, the delayed version of conviction. Impeachment proceedings are like criminal trials. A […]

I’ll readily admit that the face gracing the $20 bill is not our most urgent issue – not with 420,000 people needlessly dead and 45 Republican senators saying that their insurrectionist in exile should get a pass. But we can all agree that symbols are important, define who we are as a people and help […]

The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol represented an event unlike any other in American history. But how will it be portrayed in history textbooks used in America’s K-12 schools and colleges? Here, three scholars of American history weigh in. How soon can we expect this attack to be included in history textbooks? Wendy […]

Today, oyster farms in Maine extend along the coast from York County, up through the eastern regions of Washington County, where the prized bivalve has become a major player in America’s oyster industry. Yet, the harvesting of oysters is nothing new in Maine as thousands of years ago Native Peoples collected tons of shellfish along […]

In last week’s column, I addressed my role as an interviewer over my 50-year career. Here are some of the notable people I’ve had the privilege of interviewing. Maine’s own Joan Benoit Samuelson won the gold medal for the marathon in the 1984 Summer Olympics. I wrote an article about Joan for Yankee magazine. Joan […]