Maine History is the only periodical devoted to scholarship on the history of Maine, and is a peer-reviewed publication. It is published twice a year, in January and July, by the Maine Historical Society in cooperation with the Department of History at the University of Maine. A subscription to Maine History is one of the benefits of membership in MHS.
Volume I, Number 1, of the MHS Quarterly Newsletter appeared in June 1961. The following January the Society announced that future issues would appear quarterly in February, May, August, and November. For the next eight years the society maintained that schedule. The content consisted of Society news, lists of new members, news of other historical societies, recent writings on Maine history in books, periodicals, and newspapers; recent additions to the Society's library; and suggested readings in Maine history. Book reviews appeared from time to time.
In summer 1969 the Newsletter became a scholarly journal. The first issue of the new journal appeared as Maine Historical Society Newsletter, Volume 9, Number 1. Four years later the journal's name was changed to Maine Historical Society Quarterly, and its name changed once more in 1994 to Maine History.
See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.
Current Issue: Volume 54, Number 2
(2021)
Maine History
Fall 2021
Front Matter
Articles
Letter from MHS Director
Steve Bromage
Editor's Note
Gregory Gaines
"It May Be Questionable:" Granger v. Avery and the Redaction of Article X, Section 5 from the Maine Constitution
Catherine M. Burns
Farther North of Boston: Maine's Pull on Robert Frost
Timothy D. O'Brien
"A Most Beautiful and Gratifying Spectacle:" Notes on the Times and Life of the Original Steamer Portland
Larry S. Glatz
Passing the Time: Artwork by World War II German POW's in Aroostock County
Maine Historical Society
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Andrew Reddy, Brittany Goetting, and Savannah Clark
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