Whispering Pines

History at Bowdoin College

John R Cross

Bowdoin College, founded in 1794, is Maine's oldest institution of higher learning. As such, it has featured prominently in Maine's and America's histories. Alumni include such literary figures as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Civil War general and Maine governor Joshua Chamberlain, President Franklin Pierce, and first female Olympic marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson.

Whispering Pines explores the rich historical contributions of the college as they pertain to the world and national events occurring at the time. Taken as a whole, it supplies a surprising and fascinating context to the overall course of American history.

Down East Books

Pages: 200 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-60893-688-5 • Hardback • September 2024 • $29.95 • (£25.00)

Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / General, History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT), History / Intellectual History

Whispering Pines

History at Bowdoin College

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Summary

Bowdoin College, founded in 1794, is Maine's oldest institution of higher learning. As such, it has featured prominently in Maine's and America's histories. Alumni include such literary figures as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Civil War general and Maine governor Joshua Chamberlain, President Franklin Pierce, and first female Olympic marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson.

Whispering Pines explores the rich historical contributions of the college as they pertain to the world and national events occurring at the time. Taken as a whole, it supplies a surprising and fascinating context to the overall course of American history.

Details

Down East Books

Pages: 200 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-1-60893-688-5 • Hardback • September 2024 • $29.95 • (£25.00)

Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / General, History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT), History / Intellectual History

Author

John R. Cross, a 1976 graduate of Bowdoin, is the college's Secretary of Development and College Relations. HE contributes a regular column, "Whispering Pines," about Bowdoin's history to the college newspaper, the Bowdoin Daily Sun. He lives in Brunswick, Maine.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Origins

The College Founded

Inaugural

Thorndike Oak

1820 Cluster

What's Not there:

Old Chapel

Moorehead Tavern

Longfellow's Bowdoin

LaFayette's tour

Antebellum Bowdoin

Packard/Smyth House

The View from Opposite Ends of the Street

Seba Smith

The Rush for Gold

Presidential Election of 1852

The Medical School of Maine and Liberia

The Civil War and Reconstruction

1860 Baseball

Bowdoin at Gettysburg

Brothers in Arms and at Odds

Joseph Christmas Ives

Something Abides

Class of 1866

1877 Cluster

The Drill Rebellion of 1874

Charlie Morse, the Ice King

A Prodigal Brother

The Gilded Age

Searles Science Building

Levers of Government

Sumner Kimball

Contributions to Knowledge

Pioneers in Physics and Electricity

Seeing the Invisible

Alfred Kinsey

Into the 20th Century

Jack London at Bowdoin

The Polar Bear as Mascot

John Arnett Mitchell's Key to Success

Bowdoin in the World

Let the Games Begin

A Suitable Monument

What If?

As Lived Experiences Recede Into History

Whispering Pines

History at Bowdoin College

John R Cross

Whispering Pines

History at Bowdoin College

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