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How to Book a Program Browse the list below of available discussion topics and review our Guidelines and FAQs .Contact a facilitator to set a tentative schedule for the series, and discuss any special arrangements.Request the program using our online form at least eight weeks in advance. We’ll respond within one week.Series A to Z Filter By: Big, Intense, Good Bridging the Generations Consider This Cultural and Regional Exploration For the Literary At Heart History Lives On Vermont Reads
20th Century Jewish Lives By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
These Pulitzer winners – including two exploring cartooning – chronicle the Jewish experience throughout the 1900s.
Posted in Cultural and Regional Exploration , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Clift , Hays , hewitt , lang , luskin , McCloud , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky
20th Century US Conflicts: The Rise of a Superpower By Vermont Humanities May 25, 2018
The Spanish-American War and its related conflict in the Philippines marked the debut of the United States as a world power. How have successive wars increased that power – or callled it into question?
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
A Mysterious Lens on American Culture By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
In these mysteries, mayhem and murder play out against a cultural/ethnic backdrop – illuminating more than simply whodunnit.
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
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
African American Experience: The Harlem Renaissance By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
This series features a history of the era alongside texts that have come to define the Harlem Renaissance.
Posted in Cultural and Regional Exploration , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Bye , Clift , Heneveld , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , Rossiter , Schley , Wizansky
America the Violent: How Group Terror Has Shaped the Nation’s Life By Ryan Newswanger June 1, 2022
Through a combination of both fiction and non-fiction, this series explores the connection between mob violence and American culture, historically spurred often by racism.
American Stories Across the Generations By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
This series focuses on the theme of relationships between children and older adults.
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Cerulli , Heneveld , hewitt , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Wright
B.I.G. (Big, Intense, Good) By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
A multi-session group is the ideal environment in which to relish these classic works of literature of a certain size and heft.
Posted in Big, Intense, Good , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Cerulli , Clift , Frothingham , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , hewitt , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , Pittman , RCohen , Rossiter , Schley , Turner , Wizansky , Wright
Based on a Real Life By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
Each book in this series is a Pulitzer-winning work of fiction, with portions based on one person’s real life story.
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Cerulli , Clift , Craven , Hays , hewitt , lang , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Young
Blue Collar America By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
Look past the stereotypes to examine the realities of minimum-wage existence, small-town economics, social divisions, and what does or doesn’t constitute the good life.
Posted in Consider This , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Craven , Gerber , Hays , hewitt , RCohen , Young
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