Gilded Age: Then and Now By Ryan Newswanger April 22, 2019
This series starts with the 1893 Columbian Exposition and continues through the Gilded Age. Three novels and a narrative history illustrate that spectacular time period in ways that in turn illuminate our own era.
Portraits of the Artists By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
These books feature fictional interpretations of famous artists.
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Cerulli , Clift , Gerber , Heneveld , lang , Logan , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , tortolano , Turner , Wizansky , Wright , Young
Women’s Literature: Dual Heritages By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
This series features contemporary, multicultural female voices.
Posted in Cultural and Regional Exploration , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Clift , Gerber , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Wright , Young
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
Family History By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
The Pulitzer-winning novels in this series examine not only relationships, but the ways difficult chapters of a family’s past are revealed by the passing of time.
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Brown , Burrington , Bye , Cerulli , Craven , Hays , hewitt , lang , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Wizansky , Young
Memorable Memoirs: Take Two By Vermont Humanities April 5, 2018
The following memoirs use both traditional and unconventional formats to hone in on a specific feature of the each author’s life.
Posted in For the Literary At Heart , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Burrington , Cerulli , Clift , Gerber , Hays , Heneveld , lang , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , Schley , Turner , Wizansky , Wright , Young
Immigrants: Coming to America By Vermont Humanities March 16, 2018
These stories capture the experience of immigrants journeying to a new land, finding their place, and feeling at home
Posted in Bridging the Generations , Reading and Discussion , Series
Tags: Berolzheimer , Brown , Cerulli , Clift , Gerber , Gonzalez , Hays , Heneveld , lang , Logan , luskin , McCloud , Mieder , RCohen , tortolano , Wizansky , Wright , 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
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
