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.