Freedom and Unity: The Struggle for Independence on the Vermont Frontier
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Summer Program Audience
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413-325-5548
This participatory, place-based program focuses on the events and personalities of the American Revolution at seven historic sites in Vermont’s Champlain Valley, including innovative sessions held on Lake Champlain in a replica Revolutionary-era gunboat. Participants will follow a route from a yeoman Vermonter’s 18th century homestead to war, and back again. Along the way, they will encounter the landscapes, artifacts, sites, and primary sources that allow students to engage with the multiple stories and competing worldviews of frontier Vermont—and to relate them to the persisting tensions between rural and urban communities across contemporary America.
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Lecturers and Visiting Faculty
Angela Labrador; Jason Barney; Susan Ouellette; Daniel O’Neil; Elsa Gilbertson; Christopher Sabick; Elizabeth Lee; Ennis Duling; Tracy Martin; Willard Randall
Grantee Institution
Funded through the Landmarks of American History and Culture grant of the Division of Education Programs