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First Wednesdays

This once-a-month humanities forum brings nationally and regionally renowned speakers to libraries for public lectures on the First Wednesday of each month, October through May.

The diverse topics of First Wednesdays offer something for everyone: from Hamlet to the National Parks, herbal medicine to the New England Town Meeting, political power and art to Rock ’n’ Roll, Afghanistan and Iran to poetry’s spiritual language, First Wednesdays brings a world of ideas into Vermont’s communities.

Learn more at Vt. Humanities Council

Programs in this Series

Video	Program Information	Production Date	Watch	Buy
	Religion and Identity in the Near East Former president of Kenyon and Carleton Colleges and religion scholar Rob Oden considers how...	04/04/2012
	The Unseen Alistair Cooke Essex Junction ~ Susan Cooke Kittredge, daughter of the late journalist Alistair Cooke,...	02/01/2012	Watch	Buy
	Once There Were Greek Tragedies, Then... Once There Were Greek Tragedies, Then... UVM CLassics Professor Emeritus...	01/04/2012	Watch	Buy
	Remaking the Landscape, 1958-1978 UVM Professor Paul Bierman shows photographs, taken over two decades, detailing the arrival...	11/02/2011	Watch	Buy
	What We Learn When We Learn About History Henry Ford famously said, “History is more or less bunk.” Author, historian, and professor...	11/02/2011
	Rowing Against Wind and Tide: The Journals and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh Author Reeve Lindbergh discusses collecting four decades of her mother's previously...	10/05/2011	Watch	Buy
	Did Karl Marx Predict the Cuban Revolution? The causes of the Cuban Revolution—and revolutions in general—are widely debated. Amherst...	04/13/2011
	Courting Disaster: From the Vietnam War to 21st Century Terrorism Retired NBC correspondent Robert Hager relates stories from 40 years on the front lines of...	04/06/2011
	The Towering Inferno: Dante's Poem Discussed by Translator Michael Palma The most frequently translated work in America today is Dante’s Inferno—a seven-hundred-year-...	03/02/2011
	100 Years Since Triangle: The Fire That Seared a Nation's Conscience Dartmouth professor Annelise Orleck reflects on the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist...	01/05/2011
	The Uses (and Misuses) of the University Today University of Chicago President Emeritus Hanna Gray considers perceptions of higher education...	10/06/2010
	Remembering Samuel de Champlain History professor Sylvie Beaudreau considers the legacy of Samuel de Champlain, Father of New...	06/03/2009	Watch	Buy
	Searching for Early America UVM Professor Jacqueline Barbara Carr examines the Early Republic (c. 1789-1828)	03/05/2008	Watch	Buy
	Book Clubs, Tupperware and Oprah In the nineteenth century, reading novels was deemed a feminine pursuit. Today, the persona...	12/05/2007	Watch	Buy
	Sounds of Spanglish, The Used daily by millions of Americans, Spanglish - the intercourse of Spanish and English - is...	10/03/2007	Watch	Buy