Native America By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These non-fiction narratives and stories reveal an extraordinary resilience in the face of often brutal campaigns to eliminate native cultures, and the effect of individual and group efforts to survive.
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Cerulli , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Wright
Poems to Share By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These delightful and rich collections of short poems offer a great first foray into poetry for mixed-age groups.
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Cerulli , Frothingham , Hays , Heneveld , hewitt , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , RCohen , Rossiter , Schley , Wizansky
Slavery and the Civil War By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
Undertake an intergenerational discussion of the root causes of the War, and the experience of soldiers on both sides.
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Bye , Hays , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , Wright
Native American Literature By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These titles include fiction, myth, poetry, and personal narrative – and represent some of the finest work by Native writers since the renaissance of American Indian writing in the 1970s.
Posted in Cultural and Regional Exploration , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Cerulli , Clift , Craven , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Wright
Experience My World By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These books take the reader deeply inside the world of someone experiencing life differently from the rest of us. Topics include bipolar disorder, physical disability, and Alzheimer s disease.
Posted in Consider This , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Cerulli , Clift , Hays , Logan , luskin , McCloud , RCohen , Turner , 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
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
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
While a list of eligible titles is drawn up each year by educators and librarians, the winner is selected based on votes by children.
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Cerulli , Hays , Heneveld , hewitt , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wright
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
