Our fall lecture series has wrapped up and, as promised, was full of fascinating history and opportunities to learn. Several of our fall programs are now available online. Please keep reading for details.
Fall 2021 talks now on YouTube
Tuesday, September 21, 2021: Historian and author Lee Hanchett joined us to share his research into Maine’s network of stagecoaches. Hanchett’s recent book, Connecting Maine’s Capitals by Stagecoach, is available in our gift shop. Watch the recording of this talk here.
Thursday, September 30, 2021: Libby Bischof, Professor of History at USM and Executive Director of the Osher Map Library, and Aaron Witham, USM’s Director of Sustainability, shared their approach to writing a land acknowledgement for USM that recognizes past and continuing Wabanaki presence on the land that the university now occupies. Read the blog post about their process here and watch the recording of this talk here.
Wednesday, October 13, 2021: Jenny Hale Pulsipher, Professor of History at Brigham Young University, shared a talk entitled “Who was in charge in 17th Century Maine? The Wabanaki, the English and the Treaty of 1678.”
Within the larger United States, few people have heard about King Philip’s War. While the conflict is better known in the Northeast, even there most people are unaware that the outcome of King Philip’s War in Maine was strikingly different from the defeat of Native people that occurred in southern New England. In the April 1678 treaty that ended the war in Maine, the Wabanaki Indians were the victors, and the English settlers agreed to pay them an annual tribute of 5 pecks of corn–a symbolic acknowledgement of the Natives’ continuing sovereignty in the region. In this talk, Dr. Pulsipher will discuss this outcome, the different views Native and English colonists held about sovereignty and subjection, and how clashes in understanding and expectations led to King William’s War.
Dr. Pulsipher is the author of several books and articles about early American and Native American history. Watch the recording here.
