June 17 is the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

Being one of the earliest forms of taxation, it is not surprising that tariffs produced one of the earliest forms of tax evasion: smuggling.

Someone’s grandparents always seem to remember one, and sometimes you can still find the scruffs and scrapes of shoes and boots on the floors. But where’d those hoedowns go? What were they like? And what did they do for small, rural communities?

An elegant piece of Vermont history made a public appearance Thursday evening, April 24 for the 70th birthday party of Sen. Alison Clarkson of Windsor County.

The 80th anniversary of two significant events, this Spring.

1,600 miles as a prisoner of war and escapee across a collapsing Confederacy

Closed borders racist? Not according to our nation’s greatest civil rights leaders.

Not until the close of the 20th century did a black woman sit in the Vermont Legislature.

Flying explorer Amelia Earhart had many important personal connections to Vermont. Here’s one more….

Radio station owner and history-making car enthusiast…..sounds a little like Ken Squier.

If a marsh rabbit can care about politics, the one in this story was surely a Republican.

The life and times of Joshua Young, the deaf abolitionist minister of Vermont

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you’d expect. 

Our Brave Little State knew the war was coming.

Two UVM grad students are disputing the widely held notion that Vermont during the early 20th century targeted native Americans with a eugenics-related sterilization policy.

One of the most colorful “doctors” of that era was “Sleeping Lucy” Cooke, a trance medium who made medical diagnoses and set broken limbs while in a hypnotic state from which she claimed to remember nothing.

As America itself became the root cause of the attack on so many campuses, the symbol that soothed the heart of many after the bombings, the American flag, became a source of endless hate.

Like Amelia Earhart on her attempt to circle the world a mere five years later, their fate remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in aviation history.

A legacy of architectural innovation

Vermont probably wouldn’t exist today if not for the Battle of Bennington.

Potash production was high-tech in 1790. A Vermonter – kinda – was on the cutting edge.

On Juneteenth, we should remember not only those freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, but those who fought and died to make it happen.

In the tumultuous political landscape of late 1770s and early 1780s Vermont, Battle of Bennington hero Seth Warner found himself at odds with the dominant forces shaping the state’s future.

Lost her home to a savage British raid and her menfolk to captivity by the British forces.

The valor of a Vermonter, in peace and war

In 1854, Dewey entered the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, embarking on a path that would define his legacy.

Branded “SS” (stirrer of sedition) on his forehead, William Brewster’s ears were cut off and he was put in prison “until a convenient time.”

George Robinson Thorne and the making of Montgomery Ward.

Amelia Earhart had an important personal connection to Vermont – the wife of the Norwich University president.

On March 4, 1791, Vermont became the 14th state!

The 10th Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers, was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester in the early 1900’s.

The malaise of Abraham Lincoln, Part Two

Long before he ambled out of the backwoods, depression haunted the gangling 6’4” yokel.

Hawkins tried in vain to regain his vision. He learned from doctors in this country that an opthamologist in Europe was his only hope. With no money to pay his passage over, he needed help. 

A glimpse into the devastating fire of January 18, 1898.

Old forts have always intrigued me, the more obscure the better. On Route 12 in the northwestern portion of Barnard, Vermont, there’s a Fort Defiance Hill that has long begged me for further investigation. 

Despite persistent reports of sightings of mountain lions/panthers/catamounts in Vermont, state wildlife officials say the last known catamount in Vermont fell to a hunter’s rifle on Thanksgiving Day, 1881.

Montpelier chosen as a capital for its central location? Kinda… but mostly it was about the money.

The 1938 hurricane was a disaster that hurt many New Englanders. Over 600 people died across 7 states. The storm destroyed many homes and businesses in Vermont.

Wearing full gear wearing 45-50 pounds, two firefighters stair-climbed the equivalent of 110 stories.

When America dragged its heels giving women the right to Vermont, a Grafton activist picketed the White House and got arrested in 1917. Three years later, Vermont state government decided against taking action to support the 19th Amendment.

122 years ago today, a telephone rang in Isle LaMotte. Little did he know that Theodore Roosevelt was about to step into his role as the Father of the American Century.