Champlain College Lecture Series
Alexander Hamilton - The Godfather of Vermont
July 16, 2006
| Length: | 1:27:34 |
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Program Description:
Willard Sterne Randall discusses Hamilton's role in Vermont's history and welcomes panelists J. Kevin Graffagnino of the Vermont Historical Society, Greg Sanford of the Vermont State Archives, Nick Muller of the Ethan Allen Homestead, and Michael Sherman, author of "Freedom and Unity - A History of Vermont." Colonel Alexander Hamilton averted invasion of the Republic of Vermont by the United States when he talked sense into a rebellious Ethan Allen. Result: the Green Mountains entered the Union peacefully, but only over its Founding Father's dead body. Leading Vermont historians debate what it was really like here in state of nature.
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