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On May 1, 1865, newly-freed African Americans who fought in the Civil War decorated soldiers' graves on what is thought to be the first-cited Memorial Day.

After two years of disruptions, the Maine Mayhem festival returns to its usual format. 'It's good to be back home.'

Indie Film: SMCC’s student film fest returns bigger and better This year's Maine Mayhem also includes the best of last year's class, whose festival was canceled because of the pandemic. By Dennis Perkins Share A scene from “Late Nights,” about a mild-mannered family man who splits his time between daytime construction worker and nighttime enforcer for the mob. Photo courtesy of Corey Norman Everybody loves a good comeback story. And while Maine Mayhem might be the name of a Maine-based women’s football team (go Mayhem!), we’re talking about the 2021 return of the original Maine ...

Learning from Lincoln Sean Wilentz is a historian of the leftist persuasion and also a principled opponent of the New York Times’s 1619 Project errors, distortions, and lies (my word, not his), now adopted as the orthodoxy of the Democratic Party. The problem is “A matter of facts,” he wrote in The Atlantic. He also signed off on the letter prominent historians sent to the Times challenging the project as ideological rather than historical. Coincidentally with my own comments this week on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, Professor Wilentz takes up Lincoln’s case in his New Yor...

John Gordon Thomson, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain Just 30 years after the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, history was repeating itself. Faced with more failing crops, landlords in Ireland again began evicting the tenant farmers who could no longer earn their keep. The issue had never really gone away: The previous famine had revealed just how few farmers actually owned land, and citizens had been fighting for tenants’ rights since the 1850s. But the latest agricultural crisis caused tension to boil over. In 1879, farmers launched the Land War, a widespread resistance to unfair rent p...