The Uses (and Misuses) of the University Today
University of Chicago President Emeritus Hanna Gray considers perceptions of higher education today and developments and trends over the past several decades that have affected universities.
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Shows In This Series
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Food Across Borders
Our production and consumption of food relies on a series of border crossings that we often take for granted. . . .
Watch Now »
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From Rembrandt to Van Gogh and Beyond
Vincent Van Gogh’s art was among the first that made visible the artist’s subjective feelings, an approach later . . .
Watch Now »
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The Story of Sandra Day O’Connor
Based on his bestselling biography, Evan Thomas examines the life and work of the first woman on the US Supreme Court, . . .
Watch Now »
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1st Wednesdays Presents: Reeve Lindbergh - Two Lives
Author of the book, Two Lives, Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of aviator-author Charles A. and Anne morrow Lindbergh, . . .
Watch Now »
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Churchill and Roosevelt: The Personal in the Partnership
UVM History Professor Emeritus Mark A. Stoler examines the important personal relationship between Britain’s prime . . .
Watch Now »
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1st Wednesdays – “There Is Nothing Either Good or Bad, But Thinking Makes It So
Catherine A. Sanderson, Amherst College professor and author of The Positive Shift, outlines the significant . . .
Watch Now »
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Amelia
The mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937 often overshadows her accomplishments as a pilot and author. . . .
Watch Now »
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson: Poet of New England with Huck Gutman. Recorded April 3, 2019.
Watch Now »
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Arguing About Civility
Middlebury political scientist Sarah Stroup asks: What topics are suitable for public discussion? And how can we . . .
Watch Now »
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
UVM professor Emily Bernard discusses Ta-Nehisi Coates’s most recent reflections on race, the Obama presidency, and . . .
Watch Now »
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American Modernism
Referencing the works of Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and others, former Head of American Paintings at . . .
Watch Now »
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Daily Life in Prewar Nazi Germany
Focusing on the prewar experience of non-Jewish citizens, Keene State professor Paul Vincent examines how ideology and . . .
Watch Now »
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“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Producer Nicholas Ma discusses and shows clips from his recent film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” a documentary about . . .
Watch Now »
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger describes America’s use of cyber warfare in its arsenal. . . .
Watch Now »
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Factory Girls: How Women First Came to the Workplace
St. Michael's College Professor Susan Ouellette leads a discussion about the subject matter behind the book "Bread and . . .
Watch Now »
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The Legacy of Rachel Carson
Silent Spring not only launched the environmental movement but also laid out the fundamental problems with our . . .
Watch Now »
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Love and Marriage in the 21st Century
Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath looks at the transformation of marriage over the past century from a traditional contract . . .
Watch Now »
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Transatlantic Traumas: Endangering the West
"The West" has been challenged by President Trump's policies, Russian covert actions, and domestic nativist and . . .
Watch Now »
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Einstein in a Nutshell
Einstein’s most famous contribution to science—his theory of relativity—is based on an idea so simple it can be stated . . .
Watch Now »
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Video Games: Changing Stories and Changing Behaviors
Ann DeMarle, director of Champlain College’s Emergent Media Center, explores digital gaming, how designers and players . . .
Watch Now »
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Building Monticello
Thomas Jefferson never knew the Monticello of today—in perfect condition, impeccably furnished. Join us as Dartmouth . . .
Watch Now »
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Building for a Gilded Age
Middlebury College art and architecture professor emeritus Glenn Andres explores how the US asserted itself . . .
Watch Now »
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Conversations that Change How We Live and Die
Dartmouth professor and memoirist Irene Kacandes draws our attention to passages from great literature and nonfiction . . .
Watch Now »
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Walt Whitman and the Civil War
Whitman’s Civil War writings give us a dual portrait, first the war as “a strange, unloosen’d wondrous time,” and . . .
Watch Now »
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America in a New, More Dangerous World
Distinguished veteran diplomat George Jaeger discusses recent rapid changes in world power relationships and the key . . .
Watch Now »
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Teaching and Parenting in the Digital Age
Chip Donohue, PhD, will explore how technology can empower and engage children, parents, families, librarians, and . . .
Watch Now »
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Merton, Meditation, and More: Buddhism in the West
Buddhism is well-established in the US, among Buddhists and others, such as Catholic monk and author Thomas Merton, . . .
Watch Now »
-
Gothic Magnificence
Part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesday Lecture Series, Dartmouth professor Cecilia Gaposchkin . . .
Watch Now »
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The Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service
In the Pulitzer Prize's centennial year, author Roy Harris tells stories of the coveted prize awarded annually to a . . .
Watch Now »
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Presidential Term Limits: The History of a Bad Idea
UVM professor emeritus Frank Bryan argues that America’s adoption of presidential term limits not only weakened the . . .
Watch Now »
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Not for an Age: Shakespeare’s 400-Year Career
Middlebury College professor Timothy Billings paints a picture of Shakespeare’s life, poetry, and stagecraft over the . . .
Watch Now »
-
Roots of Latin Jazz
Using recordings and videos, world renowned recording artist, composer, and educator Ray Vega examines the . . .
Watch Now »
-
Climate of Doubt
In 2008, the presidential candidates agreed that climate change demanded urgent attention. But that national call to . . .
Watch Now »
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The Legacy of Cesar Chavez
For many in the U.S., Cesar Chavez is considered a great leader, "arguably, the most important Latin leader in the . . .
Watch Now »
-
The Costumes of Downton Abbey
Middlebury College artist-in-residence Jule Emerson discusses the fashions worn in the popular PBS series Downton Abbey.
Watch Now »
-
Alfred Steiglitz & Camera Work
Photographer, gallerist, and magazine editor Alfred Stieglitz was a seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century . . .
Watch Now »
-
Rumi, A Soul on Fire
Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine reads and discusses Rumi, one of the greatest and most widely read of spiritual poets.
Watch Now »
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The Incandescent Mind: Virginia Woolf and Our Literary Foremothers
UVM lecturer Dr. Annika Ljung-Baruth traces the ways Woolf’s theoretical stance on women and writing is manifested in . . .
Watch Now »
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The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World
Former Iranian Ambassador to the UN Mansour Farhang examines the cultural impediments to democratic pluralism in the . . .
Watch Now »
-
Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Scientist and author Amy Seidl explains why the long-term nature of climate change forces us to redesign how we . . .
Watch Now »
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Muller - Falling Water
Retired Frank Lloyd Wright foundation ED H. Nicholas Muller shares the story and controversy involved in the famous . . .
Watch Now »
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Lake Champlain in Under an Hour
Lake Champlain has been a saltwater ocean, an Indian highway, an international battleground, a hub of commerce, and a . . .
Watch Now »
-
Truth or Dare: Writing Historical Fiction
Jay Parini, author of novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, and Herman Melville, discusses how historical fiction . . .
Watch Now »
-
Words, Creativity, and Spirituality
Drawing from Emily Dickinson and Annie Dillard, Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine examines the interconnection . . .
Watch Now »
-
What Will Follow the Arab Spring?
What can we hope for as the Middle East evolves? Former CIA Chief of Counterterrorism Haviland Smith considers whether . . .
Watch Now »
-
From Chittenden County to Baton Rouge: Vermonters, the Civil War, and the Road to Emancipation
National Park superintendent emeritus and writer Rolf Diamant discusses how profoundly the Civil War transformed . . .
Watch Now »
-
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 Factory in Greenwich Village, . . .
Watch Now »
-
Once There Were Greek Tragedies, Then...: A Consideration of Performance in 5th century Athens
Once There Were Greek Tragedies, Then . . . UVM Classics Professor Emeritus Phillip Ambrose considers the performances . . .
Watch Now »
-
Welfare Brat
Dr. Mary Childers’s childhood in the Bronx was marred by violence, alcoholism, and neglect. Referencing her own story, . . .
Watch Now »
-
Religion and Identity in the Near East
Former president of Kenyon and Carleton Colleges and religion scholar Rob Oden considers how constructs from the . . .
Watch Now »
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What We Learn When We Learn About History
Henry Ford famously said, “History is more or less bunk.” Author, historian, and professor Woden Teachout discusses . . .
Watch Now »
-
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-old book-length poem. . . .
Watch Now »
-
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 network . . .
Watch Now »
-
The Uses (and Misuses) of the University Today
University of Chicago President Emeritus Hanna Gray considers perceptions of higher education today and developments . . .
Watch Now »
-
Did Karl Marx Predict the Cuban Revolution?
The causes of the Cuban Revolution—and revolutions in general—are widely debated. Amherst College professor Javier . . .
Watch Now »
-
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
One of the preeminent journalists of the 20th century, Alistair Cooke reported extensively on the major events of his . . .
Watch Now »
-
Remaking the Landscape, 1958-1978: Interstate Highways Come to Vermont
UVM Professor Paul Bierman shows photographs, taken over two decades, detailing the arrival of the interstate to the . . .
Watch Now »
-
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 unpublished diaries and . . .
Watch Now »
-
Remembering Samuel de Champlain: His Legacy After 400 Years
History professor Sylvie Beaudreau considers the legacy of Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France, during this, the . . .
Watch Now »
-
Searching for Early America: Reconstructing the Early Years of the New Nation
UVM Professor Jacqueline Barbara Carr examines the Early Republic (c. 1789-1828)
Watch Now »
-
Book Clubs, Tupperware and Oprah
In the nineteenth century, reading novels was deemed a feminine pursuit. Today, the persona of Oprah perpetuates this . . .
Watch Now »
-
The Sounds of Spanglish
Used daily by millions of Americans, Spanglish - the intercourse of Spanish and English - is becoming a major cultural . . .
Watch Now »
-
Our Bodies, Ourselves: After 35 Years of Women's Health Education and Advocacy, How Far We've Come
Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS) is a nonprofit, public interest organization based in Cambridge, Mass., that develops and . . .
Watch Now »
-
Looking Back at Vermont: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Vermont, 1936 - 1942
This abundantly illustrated talk examines the impact of this famous government project in Vermont. Over seven years, . . .
Watch Now »
-
The Great Camps of the Adirondacks
The Great Camps of the Adirondacks is an illustrated lecture by David Schutz, State Curator, State of Vermont. In . . .
Watch Now »
-
Cracking the Da Vinci Code
Sometimes reading a book packed tight with erudition can feel like work, but Dan Brown's thriller presents a task that . . .
Watch Now »
-
The End of Iraq
Former Ambassador to Croatia and long-time U.S. diplomat with particular expertise on Iraq, Peter Galbraith offers his . . .
Watch Now »
-
Food Across Borders
Our production and consumption of food relies on a series of border crossings that we often take for granted. . . .
Watch Now » -
From Rembrandt to Van Gogh and Beyond
Vincent Van Gogh’s art was among the first that made visible the artist’s subjective feelings, an approach later . . .
Watch Now » -
The Story of Sandra Day O’Connor
Based on his bestselling biography, Evan Thomas examines the life and work of the first woman on the US Supreme Court, . . .
Watch Now » -
1st Wednesdays Presents: Reeve Lindbergh - Two Lives
Author of the book, Two Lives, Reeve Lindbergh, daughter of aviator-author Charles A. and Anne morrow Lindbergh, . . .
Watch Now » -
Churchill and Roosevelt: The Personal in the Partnership
UVM History Professor Emeritus Mark A. Stoler examines the important personal relationship between Britain’s prime . . .
Watch Now » -
1st Wednesdays – “There Is Nothing Either Good or Bad, But Thinking Makes It So
Catherine A. Sanderson, Amherst College professor and author of The Positive Shift, outlines the significant . . .
Watch Now » -
Amelia
The mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart in 1937 often overshadows her accomplishments as a pilot and author. . . .
Watch Now » -
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson: Poet of New England with Huck Gutman. Recorded April 3, 2019.
Watch Now » -
Arguing About Civility
Middlebury political scientist Sarah Stroup asks: What topics are suitable for public discussion? And how can we . . .
Watch Now » -
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
UVM professor Emily Bernard discusses Ta-Nehisi Coates’s most recent reflections on race, the Obama presidency, and . . .
Watch Now » -
American Modernism
Referencing the works of Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, and others, former Head of American Paintings at . . .
Watch Now » -
Daily Life in Prewar Nazi Germany
Focusing on the prewar experience of non-Jewish citizens, Keene State professor Paul Vincent examines how ideology and . . .
Watch Now » -
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
Producer Nicholas Ma discusses and shows clips from his recent film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” a documentary about . . .
Watch Now » -
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger describes America’s use of cyber warfare in its arsenal. . . .
Watch Now » -
Factory Girls: How Women First Came to the Workplace
St. Michael's College Professor Susan Ouellette leads a discussion about the subject matter behind the book "Bread and . . .
Watch Now » -
The Legacy of Rachel Carson
Silent Spring not only launched the environmental movement but also laid out the fundamental problems with our . . .
Watch Now » -
Love and Marriage in the 21st Century
Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath looks at the transformation of marriage over the past century from a traditional contract . . .
Watch Now » -
Transatlantic Traumas: Endangering the West
"The West" has been challenged by President Trump's policies, Russian covert actions, and domestic nativist and . . .
Watch Now » -
Einstein in a Nutshell
Einstein’s most famous contribution to science—his theory of relativity—is based on an idea so simple it can be stated . . .
Watch Now » -
Video Games: Changing Stories and Changing Behaviors
Ann DeMarle, director of Champlain College’s Emergent Media Center, explores digital gaming, how designers and players . . .
Watch Now » -
Building Monticello
Thomas Jefferson never knew the Monticello of today—in perfect condition, impeccably furnished. Join us as Dartmouth . . .
Watch Now » -
Building for a Gilded Age
Middlebury College art and architecture professor emeritus Glenn Andres explores how the US asserted itself . . .
Watch Now » -
Conversations that Change How We Live and Die
Dartmouth professor and memoirist Irene Kacandes draws our attention to passages from great literature and nonfiction . . .
Watch Now » -
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
Whitman’s Civil War writings give us a dual portrait, first the war as “a strange, unloosen’d wondrous time,” and . . .
Watch Now » -
America in a New, More Dangerous World
Distinguished veteran diplomat George Jaeger discusses recent rapid changes in world power relationships and the key . . .
Watch Now » -
Teaching and Parenting in the Digital Age
Chip Donohue, PhD, will explore how technology can empower and engage children, parents, families, librarians, and . . .
Watch Now » -
Merton, Meditation, and More: Buddhism in the West
Buddhism is well-established in the US, among Buddhists and others, such as Catholic monk and author Thomas Merton, . . .
Watch Now » -
Gothic Magnificence
Part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesday Lecture Series, Dartmouth professor Cecilia Gaposchkin . . .
Watch Now » -
The Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service
In the Pulitzer Prize's centennial year, author Roy Harris tells stories of the coveted prize awarded annually to a . . .
Watch Now » -
Presidential Term Limits: The History of a Bad Idea
UVM professor emeritus Frank Bryan argues that America’s adoption of presidential term limits not only weakened the . . .
Watch Now » -
Not for an Age: Shakespeare’s 400-Year Career
Middlebury College professor Timothy Billings paints a picture of Shakespeare’s life, poetry, and stagecraft over the . . .
Watch Now » -
Roots of Latin Jazz
Using recordings and videos, world renowned recording artist, composer, and educator Ray Vega examines the . . .
Watch Now » -
Climate of Doubt
In 2008, the presidential candidates agreed that climate change demanded urgent attention. But that national call to . . .
Watch Now » -
The Legacy of Cesar Chavez
For many in the U.S., Cesar Chavez is considered a great leader, "arguably, the most important Latin leader in the . . .
Watch Now » -
The Costumes of Downton Abbey
Middlebury College artist-in-residence Jule Emerson discusses the fashions worn in the popular PBS series Downton Abbey.
Watch Now » -
Alfred Steiglitz & Camera Work
Photographer, gallerist, and magazine editor Alfred Stieglitz was a seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century . . .
Watch Now » -
Rumi, A Soul on Fire
Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine reads and discusses Rumi, one of the greatest and most widely read of spiritual poets.
Watch Now » -
The Incandescent Mind: Virginia Woolf and Our Literary Foremothers
UVM lecturer Dr. Annika Ljung-Baruth traces the ways Woolf’s theoretical stance on women and writing is manifested in . . .
Watch Now » -
The Struggle for Democracy in the Arab World
Former Iranian Ambassador to the UN Mansour Farhang examines the cultural impediments to democratic pluralism in the . . .
Watch Now » -
Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Scientist and author Amy Seidl explains why the long-term nature of climate change forces us to redesign how we . . .
Watch Now » -
Muller - Falling Water
Retired Frank Lloyd Wright foundation ED H. Nicholas Muller shares the story and controversy involved in the famous . . .
Watch Now » -
Lake Champlain in Under an Hour
Lake Champlain has been a saltwater ocean, an Indian highway, an international battleground, a hub of commerce, and a . . .
Watch Now » -
Truth or Dare: Writing Historical Fiction
Jay Parini, author of novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, and Herman Melville, discusses how historical fiction . . .
Watch Now » -
Words, Creativity, and Spirituality
Drawing from Emily Dickinson and Annie Dillard, Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay Crumbine examines the interconnection . . .
Watch Now » -
What Will Follow the Arab Spring?
What can we hope for as the Middle East evolves? Former CIA Chief of Counterterrorism Haviland Smith considers whether . . .
Watch Now » -
From Chittenden County to Baton Rouge: Vermonters, the Civil War, and the Road to Emancipation
National Park superintendent emeritus and writer Rolf Diamant discusses how profoundly the Civil War transformed . . .
Watch Now » -
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 Factory in Greenwich Village, . . .
Watch Now » -
Once There Were Greek Tragedies, Then...: A Consideration of Performance in 5th century Athens
Once There Were Greek Tragedies, Then . . . UVM Classics Professor Emeritus Phillip Ambrose considers the performances . . .
Watch Now » -
Welfare Brat
Dr. Mary Childers’s childhood in the Bronx was marred by violence, alcoholism, and neglect. Referencing her own story, . . .
Watch Now » -
Religion and Identity in the Near East
Former president of Kenyon and Carleton Colleges and religion scholar Rob Oden considers how constructs from the . . .
Watch Now » -
What We Learn When We Learn About History
Henry Ford famously said, “History is more or less bunk.” Author, historian, and professor Woden Teachout discusses . . .
Watch Now » -
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-old book-length poem. . . .
Watch Now » -
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 network . . .
Watch Now » -
The Uses (and Misuses) of the University Today
University of Chicago President Emeritus Hanna Gray considers perceptions of higher education today and developments . . .
Watch Now » -
Did Karl Marx Predict the Cuban Revolution?
The causes of the Cuban Revolution—and revolutions in general—are widely debated. Amherst College professor Javier . . .
Watch Now » -
The Unseen Alistair Cooke
One of the preeminent journalists of the 20th century, Alistair Cooke reported extensively on the major events of his . . .
Watch Now » -
Remaking the Landscape, 1958-1978: Interstate Highways Come to Vermont
UVM Professor Paul Bierman shows photographs, taken over two decades, detailing the arrival of the interstate to the . . .
Watch Now » -
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 unpublished diaries and . . .
Watch Now » -
Remembering Samuel de Champlain: His Legacy After 400 Years
History professor Sylvie Beaudreau considers the legacy of Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France, during this, the . . .
Watch Now » -
Searching for Early America: Reconstructing the Early Years of the New Nation
UVM Professor Jacqueline Barbara Carr examines the Early Republic (c. 1789-1828)
Watch Now » -
Book Clubs, Tupperware and Oprah
In the nineteenth century, reading novels was deemed a feminine pursuit. Today, the persona of Oprah perpetuates this . . .
Watch Now » -
The Sounds of Spanglish
Used daily by millions of Americans, Spanglish - the intercourse of Spanish and English - is becoming a major cultural . . .
Watch Now » -
Our Bodies, Ourselves: After 35 Years of Women's Health Education and Advocacy, How Far We've Come
Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS) is a nonprofit, public interest organization based in Cambridge, Mass., that develops and . . .
Watch Now » -
Looking Back at Vermont: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Vermont, 1936 - 1942
This abundantly illustrated talk examines the impact of this famous government project in Vermont. Over seven years, . . .
Watch Now » -
The Great Camps of the Adirondacks
The Great Camps of the Adirondacks is an illustrated lecture by David Schutz, State Curator, State of Vermont. In . . .
Watch Now » -
Cracking the Da Vinci Code
Sometimes reading a book packed tight with erudition can feel like work, but Dan Brown's thriller presents a task that . . .
Watch Now » -
The End of Iraq
Former Ambassador to Croatia and long-time U.S. diplomat with particular expertise on Iraq, Peter Galbraith offers his . . .
Watch Now »