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  • Author: Field, Rachel

Date: 1931

Language: English

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Young adult novel about a French girl orphaned upon her arrival in America. Follows her through the loss of her family, her adaptations to servitude, and her coming-of-age in the New World. Winner of a Newbery Honor Award for youth literature in…

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  • Author: Cather, Willa

Date: 1927

Language: English

Find in a Library: 346243

The famed Middle-American author of "O Pioneers!" writes a novel about French Catholic priests on a mission to New Mexico in the middle of the nineteenth century. Cather writes out Mexican custom and Roman faith as they merge in the desert at the…

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  • Author: Jepson, Brenda N. (director)

Date: 2006

Language: English

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From Crown of Maine Productions: "'Greetings From Aroostook' is a seventeen minute DVD featuring spectacular scenery, people and wildlife of The County set to music. The DVD includes scenes throughout the area from the Million Dollar View south of…

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  • Author: Beresford, Bruce (director)

Date: 1991 September

Language: English, Latin, Cree, Mohawk, Algonquin

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From the Canadian Film Encyclopedia: "Black Robe is a bleak but majestic film about the diverse cultures of the French settlers and the Algonquin people, and the clashes between them....The hostile wilderness of 17th-century New France is the setting…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1903 November 7

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1903 book review of Sir Gilbert Barker's history text, "Old Quebec: The Fortunes of New France" (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903).

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  • Author: L'Heureux, Juliana

Date: 2010 April 21

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

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Article about the focus on Franco-American cultures during Appreciating Diversity Day at Falmouth Middle School in southern Maine.

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  • Author: Louder, Dean R. (editor)
  • Author: Waddell, Eric (editor)

Date: 1993

Language: en

Find in a Library: 25412445

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Translation and expansion of "Du continent perdu..." by Dean Louder. A collection of historiographical, geographical, anthropological, and theoretical essays on francophone cultures in North America - from Québec, to New England and the US…

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  • Author: Banks, James A.

Date: 1991

Language: English

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From publisher's website: "Divided into five parts, 'Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies' emphasizes that the main goal of the multicultural curriculum should be to help students develop the ability to make reflective decisions so that they can,…

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  • Author: Martin, André (editor)

Date: 1980

Volume: 2 of 8

Language: en; fr

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Volume 2 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the second of six…

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  • Author: Casanova, Jacques Donat

Date: 1975

Language: Français

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Un exploration québécois des contributions historiques des gens français et canadiens-français à la vie quotidienne et la culture des Etats-Unis. Du texte: "Quand on parle de l'apport français à l'histoire des États-Unis, on…

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  • Author: Coulet du Gard, René
  • Author: Coulet du Gard, Dominique

Date: 1974

Language: en

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Geography and etymology of places in the United States with names of French origin. Mostly concerned with California, Louisiana, and the U.S. Midwest.

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  • Author: Kellogg, Louise Phelps

Date: 1925

Volume: 1

Language: English

Find in a Library: 633645

Reprinted in 2007 by Heritage Books. A history of the French in North America - particularly what would become the US Midwest - from colonization to the middle 18th century. Contains semi-biographical pieces on explorers from that period. Focuses…

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  • Author: Calvert, Mary R.

Date: 1991

Language: en

Find in a Library: 23707025

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Historical piece on early French Jesuits missionizing to Abenaki in Maine's Kennebec River Valley in the 17th century.

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  • Author: Downs, Jacques M.

Date: 1985

Language: en

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A photo-history of the cities of the Saco River Valley in southern Maine. A heavily researched and crafted exhibition of landscapes from colonization to contemporary times, 'The Cities on the Saco' weaves a storytelling tapestry of Saco, Biddeford,…

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  • Author: Doyle, James

Date: 1983

Language: English

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  • Author: Dubois, Émile

Date: 1920

Language: fr

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De l'intro, "aux Lecteurs," écrit par Emile Dubois: "Au cours des vacances de 1918, en compagnie de M. l'abbe Edmond Lacroix, je faisais un séjour d'un mois au pays d'Evangeline. Au jour le jour, a mesure que je visitais les endroits…

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  • Author: Eccles, W.J.

Date: 1998

Language: en

Find in a Library: 39664550

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Previously published under the title "France in America." From Fitzhenry and Whiteside, publishers: "This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the…

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  • Author: Arsenault, Bona

Date: 1978

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 5619093

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Gros anthologie en six tomes sur les gens acadiens. La première partie est un histoire des peuples, et les autres parties sont divisées par les sujets et géographies suivant: 2) Port-Royal, 3) Beaubassin, Grand-Pré, 4) Pisiguit,…

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  • Author: Barbé-Marbois, François

Date: 1829

Language: Français

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  • Author: Byrne, William
  • Author: Leahy, William Augustine
  • Author: O'Donnell, Jason H.
  • Author: Finen, John E.
  • Author: McCoy, J.J.
  • Author: Dowling, A.
  • Author: Young, Edmund J.A.
  • Author: Michaud, John S.

Date: 1899

Language: en

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Lengthy 1899 historical portrait of Roman Catholic dioceses in the New England states. Includes the archdiocese of Boston, the dioceses of Providence (Rhode Island), Portland (Maine), and Manchester (New Hampshire).

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  • Author: Adams, Rachel

Date: 2009

Language: English

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  • Author: Podruchny, Carolyn

Date: 2006

Language: English

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  • Author: Johnston, James F.W.

Date: 1851

Volume: 1

Language: en

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A British scholar's notes on life in New Brunswick, New England, New York, and the Upper Midwestern U.S., based on extensive travel in those regions in the middle 19th century. Volume 1 of 2.

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  • Author: Johnston, James F.W.

Date: 1851

Volume: 2

Language: en

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A British scholar's notes on life in New Brunswick, New England, New York, and the Upper Midwestern U.S., based on extensive travel in those regions in the middle 19th century. Volume 2 of 2.

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  • Author: Lawrence, Benjamin

Date: 1912

Language: en

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1912 history of the city of Jay in Franklin County, Maine, situated alongside the Androscoggin River. Gives a brief background sketch of the Native American presence there; historical profile detailed from the town's 1795 incorporation to the turn of…

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  • Author: Hornsby, Stephen
  • Author: Konrad, Victor A.
  • Author: Herlan, James J.

Date: 1989

Language: English

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  • Author: Mahaffie, Charles

Date: 1995

Language: en

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From Down East Books: " 'A Land of Discord Always' is the history of Acadia up to the time of the grand derangement. It tells how a unique society grew and prospered in an obscure corner of North America only to be crushed in a contest between…

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  • Author: Lockerby, Earle

Date: 2008

Language: English

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  • Author: Heffernan, Nancy Coffey
  • Author: Stecker, Anne Page

Date: 1986

Language: en

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From University Press of New England: "A classic history of New Hampshire’s economic and political development, now updated for the twenty-first century....From fiercely ambitious and independent colonial towns to the media circus of the…

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  • Author: Craig, Béatrice
  • Author: Dagenais, Maxime

Date: 2009

Language: English

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