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  • Author: Beaudreau, Sylvie

Date: 2009-sum/fall

Publication: Vermont History : The Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society

Volume: 77

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1773222

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Article describing and comparing American and Canadian commemorations of the 17th century French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, around Lake Champlain in 1908 and 1909. Champlain as a celebrated "transnational" figure, and the imagery associated with…

  • Author: Chmielewski, Laura M.

Date: 2012

Language: en

Find in a Library: 726819031

Find Online: OL25115960M

Exploration of Maine's religious culture and various religious identities in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A study of religious eclecticism in the New England/New France borderland that complicates conventional notions of Christian orthodoxy, or…

  • Author: Rivard, Paul E.

Date: 2002

Language: en

Find in a Library: 48958482

Find Online: OL8793733M

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General history of the textile industry and its workers in the towns and cities of New England. From early domestic and small-scale manufacturing in the 17th and 18th centuries, to weaving industries of the early 19th, to the massive riverside brick…

  • Author: Marguerite-Félicie, Soeur (Sr.)

Date: 1952

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 34155569

Find Online: OL12306665W

Le cinquantième anniversaire de l'arrivée des Filles du Saint-Espirit (dit les Soeurs Blanches) de Bretagne, en France, á la Nouvelle-Angleterre, précisement au diocèse de Hartford, Connecticut. Un récit de l'oeuvre accomplie par…

  • Author: Lintner, Sylvia Chace

Date: 1948 June 01

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 21

Language: English

Find in a Library: 480419589, 1759778

The advent of certain southern New England manufactories, and the specific history behind the shapes and builds, the rise and fall, of the granite textile mills of Fall River, Massachusetts. Historical progression of mill development and those who…

  • Author: Kistler, Ruth Barthold

Date: 1947

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Education

Institution: New York University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 53768425

Dissertation on the cultural life of French Canada, from the 16th century until the middle 20th, and the specific roles that religion, education, and language have played in its minority preservation in and outside of Quebec. Historical background of…

  • Author: Massey, Lucy Alice

Date: 1961

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Education

Institution: New York University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6634706, 58668868

Historiography of Acadia up to 1755. Analysis of writings on the Acadian people as they were thought to have lived in Atlantic Canada before their 18th-century expulsion. Presentation of pre-expulsion Acadian customs, behaviors, and social life as…

  • Author: Conforti, Joseph A.

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45909198

Find Online: OL7972726M

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The shape of regional identity in New England, from its Puritan origins, to its Yankee iterations, to its immigrant diversity. How popular conceptions of the New England region were created, established, and communicated, and how these conceptions…

  • Author: Krupa, Grazyna

Date: 2004

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 62329002

Documentary on the birth, development, demise, and renovation of Acadia - from France, to Nova Scotia, to Louisiana, and back again. Includes interviews with historians, archaeologists, and genealogists, as well as dramatic reenactments of 17th…

  • Author: Luyat, Anne
  • Author: Tolron, Francine

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49197560

Collection of essays in cultural criticism, with specific emphases on national, ethnic, and linguistic identities in transit. Divided in the text by the geographies to which each essay pertains. From the introduction: "The authors [in 'Flight from…

  • Author: Archdeacon, Thomas J.

Date: 1983

Language: en

Find in a Library: 9131872

Find Online: OL4322670W

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A history of immigration in the United States, its national impact, and the effects of American naturalization upon immigrant ethnic identity. From the cover: "From the English settlers who founded the Jamestown colony to the recent refugees from…

  • Author: Lockerby, Earle

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find Online: 192053072

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  • Author: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1972

Language: en

Find in a Library: 389635

Find Online: OL1170977W

American immigration history in photos by the author of the award-winning historical piece, "The Uprooted."

  • Author: Calvert, Mary

Date: 1983

Language: en

Find in a Library: 10864362

Find Online: OL2769967W

Historical piece on the European explorers of the Kennebec River Valley and the Abenaki people of that Maine region. Highlights the relationships among British, French, and Native American, and their confrontations from the 17th century onward. The…

  • Author: Ouelette, Joanne
  • Author: New Hampshire Historical Society

Date: 2013

Language: en

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Outline of dates and figures; compilation of facts and notes relevant to the history of French Canadian immigrants in the state of New Hampshire around the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for…

  • Author: Creamer, Daniel Barnett
  • Author: Coulter, Charles Wellsley

Date: 1971

Language: en

Find in a Library: 241413

Reprinting of a 1939 publication funded by the Works Progress Administration. Exploration of the economic conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the economic climate surrounding the mill complex of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation. The…

  • Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 56903271

Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians,…

  • Author: Fairfield, Roy P.

Date: 1956 (2003)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3085526

Find Online: OL2044914W

A history of the coastal and industrial city of Saco, Maine, from its inception to the 1950s. Written by a Saco native. The inside cover reads: "In a rich and vivid history, documented with record, with facts bearing evidence of infinitely rewarding…

  • Author: Le Jeune, R.P.L.

Date: 1990 (1918)

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 144748841 (peut être lu au Centre Franco-Américain, Université du Maine, Orono, Maine)

Une brève histoire de l'Acadie entre 1412 et 1800 (entre colonisation, le Grand Dérangement, et repopulation). Certaines descriptions d'événements significatives dans la courte durée de vie des premières communatés Acadiennes de…

  • Author: Baird, Charles Washington

Date: 1885

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 8047731

Find Online: OL7003802W

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Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only…

  • Author: Dunwell, Steve

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4443770

Find Online: OL4743753M

A chronicle of centuries of labor in black and white photographs. Historical and modern perspectives on mills, industrial towns, and workers in New England from the earliest industrialization period to the 1970s. From the inside flap: "The full force…

  • Author: Weisman, Adam

Date: 1995

Thesis Type: Ph. D., English and American Literature and Language

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 34361480

Also featured, in abridged form, in the Massachusetts Review (see 'Journal Articles'). From the author: "This thesis introduces the concept of imaginative colonization in postcolonial literary and cultural studies, which has a particular relevance to…

  • Author: Stewart, Sharon

Date: 2004

Language: English (traduction en français est disponible)

Find in a Library: 54371823

A children's book about the Acadian expulsion of 1754 (le Grand Dérangement). From Scholastic Canada: "Angélique Richard's life is turned upside down when she and her family, along with the people of Grand-Pré, are forced by the…

  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 2007

Language: English

Find in a Library: 77504854

From Pantheon Books, Random House: "An original and radiant novel about grief, obsession, and the need for meaning from the author of 'The Family,' a finalist for the National Book Award. When his young son dies in a freak accident, Gerard struggles…

  • Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 1897 (1847)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27193052

Find Online: OL496004W

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Maine native Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's search for her love lost. First published in 1847.

  • Author: LeBlanc, Robert G.

Date: 1967

Publication: Cahiers de géographie du Québec

Volume: 11

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60627975

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A concise account of the Acadian migrations between 1750 and 1800, including intercontinental migration routes, community prevalance, and the political context that motivated such a tumultuous half-century in and out of Atlantic Canada.

  • Author: Lower, A.R.M.

Date: 1929-04

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 2

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480335685

Essay-like general sketch of the histories of New England and New France as they move into the migration of French Canadians to the United States around the turn of the 20th century. Some comments on the general intentions of French Canadian…