Introduction : placing Portland / Joseph A. Conforti
Formerly Machegonne, Dartmouth, York, Stogummor, Casco, and Falmouth / Emerson W. Baker
Thriving and elegant town : eighteenth-century Portland as commercial center / Charles P. M. Outwin
Falmouth, the American Revolution, and the price of moderation / James S. Leamon
Longfellow's Portland / Charles Calhoun
Comunidad escondida : Latin American influences in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Portland / David Carey Jr
Picturing place : Portland and the visual arts / Donna M. Cassidy
Writing Portland : literature and the production of place / Kent C. Ryden
Working Portland : women, class, and ethnicity in the nineteenth century / Eileen Eagan
"What they lack in numbers" : locating Black Portland, 1870/1930 / Maureen Elgersman Lee
Creating and preserving Portland's urban landscape, 1885/1925 / Earle G. Shettleworth Jr
From declining seaport to liberty city : Portland during depression and war /Joel W. Eastman
Creating a "gay mecca" : lesbians and gay men in late-twentieth-century Portland / Howard M. Solomon
Epilogue : Maine, New England, and American city / Joseph A. Conforti.
