First Wednesdays Humanities Lecture Series at
Nine Libraries Around Vermont

Talks on Vermont Public Radio and CCTV

 The following First Wednesdays talks are available for listening or download at VPR Presents:

• If You Don’t Want Your Slave to Speak Freely, You Should Forbid Him to Sing! with Middlebury College Artist-in-Residence Dr. Francois Clemmons (Burlington, March 2011)
   
• First Family: Abigail and John Adams with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Joseph Ellis (Manchester, December 2010)
   
• Potential U.S. Responses to Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions with Mansour Farhang, Former Iranian Ambassador to the UN and Bennington College professor (Middlebury, December 2010)
   
• The Two Vermonts: Then and Now with UVM professor and author Paul Searls (Burlington, January 2010)
   
• No Ordinary Lives with filmmaker Ken Burns (Brattleboro, January 2008)
   
• American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Ellis (Manchester, December 2007)
   
• The Sounds of Spanglish with author Ilan Stavans (Burlington, October 2007)
   
• The End of Iraq with Ambassador Peter Galbraith (Middlebury, November 2007)
   
• War vs. Truth: Freedom’s Dilemma with former ABC News Correspondent Barrie Dunsmore (St. Johnsbury, May 2007)
   
• The Battle for Peace with Retired General Anthony Zinni (Montpelier, December 2006)
   
• The Impossible Presidency: Presidential Greatness in the Post-Modern World with UVM Professor Frank Bryan (Newport,  October 2006)

First Wednesdays on CCTV

• The Two Vermonts: Then and Now with UVM professor and author Paul Searls (Burlington,  January 2010)
   
• A Conservationist Manifesto with author Scott Russell Sanders (Burlington, November 2009)
   
• Lincoln on the Causes of the Civil War with Middlebury College President Emeritus John McCardell (Burlington, Octobe 2009)
   
• The Great Debate: Is It Time for a Second Vermont Republic? with UVM professor Frank Bryan and former Deputy Secretary of State Paul Gillies (Montpelier,  April 2009)