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Maine History: Journal Articles

Historical Maine Periodicals

Significant runs of selected Maine periodicals at Bowdoin

Down East, 1954-present
Main Periodical
For indexing, consult: Maine News Index Online. For other years, consult the print Down East, the Magazine of Maine, cumulative index.

Industrial Journal (Bangor, ME), 1899-1915
Main Periodical

Maine Historical Society Newsletter, 1961-1973
Main Periodical

Maine Historical Society Quarterly, 1974-1993
Main Periodical
Indexed in America: History and Life

Maine History, 1994-
Main Periodical
Indexed in America: History and Life and in Maine History Index – 1969–2014

Maine Townsman, 1939-
Main Periodical

Databases/Indexes for Finding Journal Articles

Skowhegan shoe factory, ca. 1940
Maine Historical Society

Maine History Index – 1969–2014

Indexes to Maine Newspapers.

Index to New England Periodicals, 1977-1982
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Indexes: Down East, Maine, Maine Historical Society Quarterly, Maine Life, and Maine Times, in addition to other New England periodicals.

General periodical indexes

America: History and Life
Subject index of scholarly articles, books and dissertations about the history of the United States and Canada published throughout the world.

Writings on American history
Main Libr E11 .W72
Main Libr E11 .W73
Relatively comprehensive subject bibliography of articles and books on the history of the U.S. and of British North America. Subject arrangement makes it easy to find materials about Maine. Coverage: 1902-1990

Academic Search Complete
Index of over 1800 English language scholarly and general interest journals. About 60% full text.

JSTOR
Searchable archive of full text scholarly journal articles.