The latest issue of the Vermont History Journal is now available!
By Phoebe Donn, 2025 Geiger Fellow
I’ve always liked libraries and museums, for that matter. Libraries because I love to read, and museums, well, museums are interesting ones. Museums are fascinating for the breadth of their collections and the fantastic variety of items that one might see on display.…
The Vermont Historical Society is pleased to announce the launch of its first annual Women’s History and Material Culture Fellowship. This fellowship will work with VHS’s Collections Manager to explore, identify, and research items from our vast artifact collection to identify and study objects that…
In 2024, the Vermont Historical Society accessioned a group of items from the now-shuttered Austine School for the Deaf, preserving their stories of an important Vermont institution
The Vermont Historical Society is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 Richard O. Hathaway Award: Burlington filmmaker Travis Van Alstyne, for his animated short film Love of the Land.
A crystal ball was donated to VHS in 1958 without any indication of a connection to Vermont. Why keep it? It represents a time when spiritualism was popular in the state
The Vermont Historical Society is pleased to announce the expansion of its Freedom & Unity exhibit at the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier: an examination of Vermont’s maple industry.
This exhibit will explore the long history of maple syrup, its importance to the state’s economy, and how it has…
The Vermont Historical Society is partnering with Vermont Public for a series of screenings of Ken Burns' next documentary.
The Vermont Historical Society is helping volunteer organizations with collections stewardship
We're pleased to announce next publication: Winters’ Time: A Secret Pledge, a Severed Head, and the Murder That Brought America's Most Famous Lawyer to Vermont. It's a fascinating account of a dramatic episode in Vermont’s history: the time that Clarence Darrow, America’s most famous lawyer, came to…
