Maine Historical Society
Since 1822, Maine Historical Society has been preserving and sharing Maine’s story throughout the state and beyond. Located in the heart of Portland’s downtown cultural district, our campus is comprised of a Museum, Store, Brown Research Library, the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Garden, and Maine Memory Network, our award-winning, online digital history platform. Some videos on our YouTube channel feature guest lecturers. The content and opinions expressed in these presentations are solely those of the speaker and not necessarily of the Maine Historical Society.
Ripples of the Revolution: The Penobscot Expedition
Madams, Murderesses, and Madwomen: Maine's 19th-Century Female Criminals with Dr. Aimee Keithan
“Magic Town": Selling Rumford in the Nineteenth Century with C. Ian Stevenson
The Mystery of Miss Pattee with Linda McLoon
Benedict Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec, with Thomas Desjardin
Ripples of the Revolution: The Burning of Falmouth
Restoring Maine’s Heritage Narrow-Gauge Railroads with David J. Buczkowski
Inside 'Poetic Truths' at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Maine History Makers - Nelson Family - Highlights
2025 Maine History Maker Honoring the Nelson Family
Maine's Summer Camp Craze
The Nelson Family Story: 2025 Maine History Maker Documentary
The Dark Appeal of True Crime with Rachel Monroe
The Continuing Legacy of Log Drives on Maine’s Rivers with Dr. John Field
In Time the Rose Died: A History of Family Cemeteries in Maine
Works of Peculiar Interest: Sensational Tales, Dangerous Temptations, and Female Factory Workers
The Gardner Heist, a talk with Ulrich Boser
Sturgis Haskins, Activist Archivist
To Cherish the Memory: 350 Years of Mourning Jewelry
Black Salts: Black Sailors in Maine and New England
A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In Focus: Americanization and Nativism in Maine
Food of the Future: How Social Reformers Created a Vegetarian Crusade in America
Jud Strunk's 'Santa Song,' from the MHS Collections
Brooks Robertson Plays Tribute to Lenny Breau at MHS
Maine Schoolgirl Needlework
100 years of Tending the Longfellow Garden
Collecting Maine at the P.D. Merrill Collections Center
Maine’s Untold Vegetarian History: a talk with Co-curators John Babin & Avery Yale Kamila