Students -- Maine -- Orono -- Political activity

Scope and Contents

The records contain textual information created by the Abenaki Experimental College and material created by third parties regarding the College, includes: College catalogs, resource information, clipping regarding the College's opening, and course fliers.

Scope and Contents A miscellaneous group of records related to the history of the University of Maine, from its founding as the Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1865. Items appear to have been curated and compiled over time by Fogler Library Special Collections staff to document key events, figures, and milestones in the University's early history. Most of the material is from the end of the Nineteenth century through to the mid Twentieth century. The records mainly...

Abstract

The collection contains material concerning student political activity on the University of Maine campus at Orono during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It includes materials about Students for a Democratic Society, Young Workers Liberation League, General Left Caucus, Vietnam War protests, student strike in May 1970, position papers, and correspondence.

Abstract 2575 By Laura Finkel, May 1998, Orono, Maine. Copy of Laura Finkel’s 186 pp. typed M. A. thesis for the Department of History at the University of Maine, 1998. “This is Maine, Baby, Not Berkeley: Vietnam Era Protest at the University of Maine, 1964-1973.” From the introductory paragraphs: “This work looks at at the University of Maine, a relatively small, working-class school in a rural state to show similarities to and differences from the story of dissent portrayed in the extant...