History

The Road to the White House 10/01/2016

In a series of classes put on by OSHER at Dartmouth Professor Maynard Goldman will lead discussion and discovery about this year's historical presidential race.

America's Constitution - Progress & Promise 09/21/2016

America's Constitution- Progress & Promise September. - The Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth presents: Elizabeth Wydra, President, Constitutional Accountability Center, to speak on historical roots of the pressing constitutional issues of our time – fede

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: The Many Meanings of Maple with Michael Lange 09/18/2016

Champlain College professor Dr. Michael Lange ‘s talk focuses on the different ways that maple carries meaning in Vermont. Economic meanings, heritage meanings, ecological meanings, and many more are explored in this interactive talk.

For more info visit: http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/

#NoDAPL Solidarity Action! 09/13/2016

The Camp of the Sacred Stones and the Red Warrior Camp, both leading the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline, have put out a call for solidarity actions that target the corporations and financial institutions that are building and financing this pipeline through native lands.

Michels Corporation - the contractor building the Dakota Access Pipeline through the land of the Standing Rock Sioux - is also building the fracked gas pipeline in western Vermont.

In solidarity with the #NoDAPL resistance, join Vermont's pipefighters and march onto an active Vermont Gas/Michels pipeline construction site to shut them down for the day. Activists hold up the indigenous-led struggle 1500 miles away and raise money to send to this resistance out west.

Feminist Media Review: Peggy Luhrs Discusses Phyllis Schlafly, Fracking, and the Standing Rock Reservation 09/12/2016

Host Peggy Luhrs discusses topics including Phyllis Schlafly, fracking, and the Standing Rock Reservation standoff.

Stump the Chumps: Coal, Boys Clubs, and Photographers of Long Ago 08/31/2016

"Stump the Chumps" -- one of Channel 17's most popular programs ever -- returns!

Chumps include Bill Keogh, Don MacDonald, and special guest Al Charron.

Test your knowledge of Chittenden County history and see if you have what it takes to Stump the Chumps!

Preservation Burlington: Historic Bicycles at the Sheldon Museum 08/25/2016

Hosts Ron Wanamaker and Liisa Reimann talk with Curator Glenn Eames about historic bicycles at the Sheldon Museum.

More information on Preservation Burlington.

Liisa Reimann Rivera - Originally from England, Liisa has lived in Burlington since 2006. She earned her Master's in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont and is a principal with Blue Brick Preservation. Liisa lives in a 1954 ranch house, whose historic wooden windows she thinks are of a genius design seldom seen since, in Burlington's New North End. Liisa's passions include historic industrial buildings, firehouses and little-known builder-architects of the vernacular landscape.

Ron Wanamaker - Ron has been a member of the Board since 2007 and has served as Vice President and President. A passionate preservationist, he continues to serve on the Education Committee for Preservation Burlington and is also a member of Burlington’s Design Advisory Board. A contractor since 1988, he has lived and worked in Burlington since 1998 and managed Wanamaker Restoration as well as Champlain Valley Millworks.

Ethan Allen Homestead Enrichment Program: Myra Colby Bradwell - First Woman Lawyer in the U.S. 08/21/2016

Born in Vermont, Myra Colby Bradwell rose to fame in her lifetime and made friends with celebrities of her day -- such as Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. But today she's all but forgotten.

Presentation by Nancy Nahra, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Champlain College, and co-author of "Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American History."

For more info visit: http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/

1st Wednesdays - The Legacy of Cesar Chavez 08/07/2016

For many in the U.S., Cesar Chavez is considered a great leader, "arguably, the most important Latin leader in the United States," to quote the Brattleboro's 1st Wednesdays program. Amherst College Profesor, Illan Stavans.

Stump the Chumps: STUMP THE CHUMPS! 07/29/2016

"Stump the Chumps" -- one of Channel 17's most popular programs ever -- returns!

Chumps include former City Attorney Joe McNeil, Bill Keogh, and Don McDonald.

Test your knowledge of Chittenden County history and see if you have what it takes to Stump the Chumps!

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!