Vegan Kitchen: The new ‘Maine Bicentennial Cookbook’ reveals the state’s vegetarian flavors

While by no means a vegetarian cookbook, a number of the recipes have a vegetarian or vegan bent.

Insight: Malaga’s legacy speaks to our time

Ruthless, racially motivated actions by Maine’s government a century ago expose biases that are still with us.

Maine Voices: Workers still fighting to protect integrity of elections

In the 19th century, employer intimidation was the roadblock between Americans and democracy; today, it’s Citizens United.

Maine Voices: How an enslaved woman became a free Maine resident

Brought to Bath by her owners on a trip up North, Clara Battease escaped with the help of the local free black community.

Vegan Kitchen: Embrace of vegetarian diets in Maine predates statehood

In fact, a historical exploration extends the meat-free phenomenon to the days of the American Revolution.

Maine Voices: Disease was formidable enemy for Maine soldiers in the Civil War

Then as now – and in surprising ways – illness shaped the way that people live and die.

On this date in Maine history: April 14, narrated by Brett Williams

‘If you can reach it, people have tried to manipulate it.’

So says a fisheries expert about the many dramatic changes in Maine's fisheries over two centuries.

Vegan Kitchen: A meat-free diet in Maine is nothing new

In the first half of the 19th-century, some Mainers promoted a vegetarian diet. One doctor wrote that it did for "the wretched invalids what the best medical treatment had utterly failed to do."

Maine’s lands and waters 200 years later? Very different

The state's lumber industry and global climate change have both had significant impact on Maine's environment.