Social Science Department Faculty

About Professor Blaine 

Marcia Schmidt Blaine's current research looks at ordinary eighteenth-century northern New England women and their use of personal authority and agency outside the domestic realm as well as their access to government power. Blaine is also involved in the following current grant work:

• Humanist for the New Hampshire Historical Society Challenge Grant to create a New Hampshire History Center for New Hampshire students and the general public. (2004-6)
• Humanist for the Warner Historical Documentary Project funded through the New Hampshire Humanities Council (2005).
• Historian for the Warner Primary Document Analysis Workshop mini-grant funded by the New Hampshire Humanities Council (2005).
• Humanist and Professor for the “America: A Story of Beginnings and A Story of Change” grant through the Teaching American History National Endowment for Humanities grants. Duties include the creation of two graduate courses: one on campus and one on-line. Working in partnership with the Southeast Regional Educational Service Center, the New Hampshire Historical Society, the National Park Service, selected museums, and Plymouth State University Graduate Office. (2004-2006).

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate

• Early American History
• Revolutionary America
• Local History
• American Women's History
• New Hampshire and New England History
• Early Modern England

• Heritage Studies Foundations
• American Beginnings
• New Hampshire and New England History
• New Hampshire and New England Historic Sites

Recent Publications:

• “Problems of Professionalization: Dover Physicians, 1760-1845,” Historical New Hampshire (forthcoming, 2006).
• “Entertaining the Government: Female Tavern Keepers and the New Hampshire Provincial Government,” Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife: Annual Proceedings 2002, 2002, p. 191-201.
• “The Power of Petitions: Women and the New Hampshire Provincial Government, 1700-1770,” International Review of Social History 46, 2001 (Supplement 9), p.57-77.
• New Hampshire Scenery: a Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes, with Catherine H. Campbell. (Canaan, NH: Phoenix Publishing for the New Hampshire Historical Society; 1985).
• Contributor of four encyclopedia entries to the Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Warfare to 1775 with ABC-Clio Publishers. Forthcoming 2007.