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VPR Commentaries 2012
Last Updated 5/3/2012 9:44:47 AM
Humanities Commentaries on VPR
2012
| Forever Young (5-3-12) |
Commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert has been thinking about two things that all people have in common— aging and mortality. They've been on his mind since Dick Clark died recently at the age of 82. But then writing about Dick Clark never seems to get old. |
| Remembering Guernica (4-25-12) |
Scenes of Syrian civilians being bombed by their own government have reminded commentator and executive director of the Vermont Humanities Council Peter Gilbert of similar events that took place 75 years ago tomorrow—with far-reaching consequences for both civil society and the arts. |
| William and Julian Scott (4-13-12) |
We’re in the midst of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War, which raged for four years, from April 1861 to April 1865. Here’s commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert with the dramatic stories of two Vermont soldiers who were not related, but who shared the same last name. |
| Willie's Story (2-20-12) |
Today is both President's Day and the anniversary of an event that caused great sadness in the Lincoln White House. Commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert has the story – not of a President, but a President's child. |
| The Presidency (1-30-12) |
Commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert loves movies about the American presidency, especially thrillers. Recently, he saw two that he'd never seen before. |
| Corporations' Free Speech (1-17-12) |
Two years ago this month, a bitterly divided Supreme Court overruled precedent and held that the government may not ban political spending by corporations, and that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 violated corporations' right to free speech. Here's commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert to explain. |
| Centenary (1-2-12) |
Commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert tells us a true story of great suffering, disappointment, and pathos that's one hundred years old this month. |
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