Maine: A Community and Environmental History

  • Professor: Sarah McMahon ( )
  • Librarian: Ginny Hopcroft ( )
  • Fall 2002

Gain Overview of topic through reference books, histories of Maine, etc.

Search the Library Catalog for books about topic. Use both keyword and subject.

Find scholarly journal articles about topic from various print and electronic indexes.
America History and Life and other databases available through the Library Gateway.

Locate primary sources after finding background about topic in above ways.

  • Library Catalog
  • State documents and Maine Laws
  • Maine Town Histories
  • Diaries, memoirs, letters
  • Census lists on microfilm
  • Census statistics
  • Contemporaneous Maine periodicals
  • Maine in federal Government Documents
  • Historical Societies

For greater detail on specific sources, please see the Maine History Research Guide
http://library.bowdoin.edu/rguides/Maine_History/

Ginny Hopcroft
Fall 2002