Vermont heritage: essays on Green Mountain history, 1770-1920 / H. Nicholas Muller III, J. Kevin Graffagnino ; edited by Kristin Peterson-Ishaq, foreword by David A. Donath.

Title:

Vermont heritage: essays on Green Mountain history, 1770-1920 / H. Nicholas Muller III, J. Kevin Graffagnino ; edited by Kristin Peterson-Ishaq, foreword by David A. Donath.

Author:

Muller, H. Nicholas, III.

Call Number:

979.4 M958

Publication Information:

Burlington, V.T. : The Center for Research on Vermont, 2020.

Physical Description:

403 p. illustrations, portraits, maps; 29 cm.

Description:

Introduction: a tale of two historians -- The Vermont "story": continuity and change in Vermont historiography -- Vermont gifts to the nation -- For Vermonters and Vermonters at heart: state and local history of the Green Mountains -- Ethan Allen and the historians: discovering a hero -- Revising the story of Vermont's push for independence -- Ira Allen's Vermont -- "We have long been wishing for a good printer in this vicinity": the state of Vermont, the First East Union and the Dresden Press, 1778-1779 -- Master and commander on Lake Champlain, 1779-1780 -- "Vermonters unmasked": Charles Phelps and the patterns of dissent in revolutionary Vermont -- "Twenty thousand muskets!!!": Ira Allen and the Olive Branch affair, 1796-1800 -- "The country my soul delighted in": the Onion River Land Company and the Vermont frontier -- Vermont becomes the fourteenth state -- A "traitorous and diabolical traffic": the commerce of the Champlain-Richelieu corridor during the War of 1812 -- Zadock Thompson and the story of Vermont -- The great wolf hunt -- From ferment to fatigue? 1870-1900: a new look at the neglected winter of Vermont -- Marcus D. Gilman and The Bibliography of Vermont -- Arcadia in New England: divergent views of a changing Vermont.

Subjects:

Vermont History. , Vermont Historiography.

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Credit Line:

Gift of the University of Vermont, Center for Research on Vermont; February, 2021;