More than five decades after publishing Maine’s first gay newspaper, the founders of “Mainely Gay” have released a 50th anniversary edition that will be … Read More
The classroom that inspired Kate Douglas Wiggin to write a classic of children’s literature is still in use by USM students in the Art program.
Each of the four maps produced by Dr. Paula Gerstenblatt’s Social Work class used different techniques including collage and allegory to illustrate how student loan debt grew into a national problem.
Nineteenth century students may have looked more serious in their waistcoats and bodices, but their private notes prove them to be just as silly and mischievous as their modern counterparts.
A shortage of first-person accounts about Maine’s immigrant experience inspired a USM librarian to create a series of workshops to begin filling that gap in the historical record.
How are digital technologies impacting reading, writing, literature, and culture? This is the central question that Professor John Muthyala’s Senior Seminar English 441–The Digital … Read More
Admission to a campus concert by rock and roll legend Tina Turner cost students only $4 in 1974.
The legacy that Llewena Baker Hill left behind as a teacher far exceeds her short time in a classroom.
The University of Southern Maine’s African American Collection has unveiled the first of six new digital exhibitions, highlighting 200 years of families in Maine. … Read More
Wendy Chapkis, USM Professor of Women & Gender Studies, was featured on Maine Things Considered, discussing her oral history project “Querying the Past” and collaboration … Read More