African American Experience: South to North By Vermont Humanities February 16, 2018
This series pairs Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful history of this Great Migration with fiction and memoir that illuminate the north/south divide.
Posted in Cultural and Regional Exploration , Democracy , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Bye , Clift , Heneveld , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , Rossiter , Schley , Wizansky
Seminal Statements of American Values By Vermont Humanities February 16, 2018
Founding documents and landmark speeches help us to understand America’s operating principles and values – what they mean, how well we practice what we preach, and what relationship words have to action in good times and bad.
Posted in Democracy , History Lives On , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Burrington , Cerulli , Frothingham , Hays , Heneveld , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Schley , Stoler , Turner
A Hard Look at America By Vermont Humanities February 16, 2018
The books in this series, comprised of Pulitzer-winning reporting and research, dig deep, revealing facts and stories that continue to be relevant years after they were brought to the surface.
Posted in Consider This , Democracy , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Bye , Cerulli , Clift , Craven , Hays , hewitt , McCloud , RCohen , Schley , Stoler , Wizansky
African American Experience: Memoirs and Essays By Vermont Humanities February 16, 2018
Personal writing by African-American authors can transcend self-reflection, becoming meditations on history, justice, and freedom from oppression.
Posted in Cultural and Regional Exploration , Democracy , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Clift , Heneveld , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , Rossiter , Schley , Wizansky , Young
