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At the end of June, a group of teachers met to learn about using genealogy to teach inclusive history with Dustin Axe, the Youth Genealogy Curriculum Coordinator with the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS).  This workshop kicked off the American Ancestors pilot that supports teacher planning for inclusive historical inquiry projects using genealogy.  During … Continue reading Unraveling Roots: Cultivating Genealogy as an Instructive Journey

Steve Bull once raced against time to try to save the memoirs of one of Maine's gay rights pioneers. His trip led him down memory lane.

The Maine Department of Education has said it worked in good faith to enact a law championed by House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross.

Juneteenth marks the day that enslaved people in Galveston Bay, Texas, learned that the Civil War was over and they had been freed.

Over the coming week, Mainers across the state will be participating in events to mark Juneteenth, the celebration of what has come to symbolize the end of slavery in the U.S.. On June 19, 1965, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people in rebel Confederate states, Union