Selected Articles, 1990 - 1999

From time to time patrons ask the librarians of the Vermont Historical Society to create electronic files of articles that were published in Vermont History prior to 2000. In the belief that these articles may be of interest to a broader audience, we are making these articles available through this web site. This section will grow over time to include the most popular articles published in Vermont History as determined by requests from the public.

Growing Up Male in the 1830s: Thomas Pickman Tyler (1815-1892) and the Tyler Family of Brattleboro
Marilyn S. Blackwell, vol. 58, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 5-23.

Photographs in the Special Collections Department, Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont
Jeffrey D. Marshall, vol. 58, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 24-49.

Surviving the Dark Ages: Vermont Abenakis During the Contact Period
Colin G. Calloway, vol. 58, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 70-81.

The French and the Abenaki: A Study in Frontier Politics
Olive Patricia Dickason, vol. 58, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 82-98.

Native Encounters with Europeans in the Sixteenth Century in the Region Now Known as Vermont
James F. Pendergast, vol. 58, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 99-124.

The Role of Lake Champlain in Canadian-American Relations
Charles F. O’Brien, vol. 58, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 150-163.

Aspects of the Vermont-Canada Forest Products Relation in the Twentieth Century
Jennie G. Versteeg, vol. 58, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 164-178.

The Canadian Rebellions and the Limits of Historical Perspective
Stephen Kenny, vol. 58, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 179-198.

Hardwick on the Map, 1895-1915: Industrialization in Direct Democracy
Elizabeth H. Dow, vol. 58, no. 4 (Fall 1990): 221-249.

Vermonters and the Lower Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838
Jean-Paul Bernard, vol. 58, no. 4 (Fall 1990): 250-263.

From Degeneration to Regeneration: The Eugenics Survey of Vermont, 1925-1936
Kevin Dann, vol. 59, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 5-29.

Sources of Women’s History at the Vermont State Archives
Christie Carter, vol. 59, no. 1 (Winter 1991): 30-48.

With Banner, Gun, and Sword: Marshall Harvey Twitchell and the 4th Vermont Regiment Go to War
Ted Tunnell, vol. 59, no. 2 (Spring 1991): 69-84

Wayward Youths: Raising Adolescents in Vermont, 1777-1815
Randolph Roth, vol. 59, no. 2 (Spring 1991): 85-96.

Alden Partridge and the United States-Canada Boundary
Alec McEwen, vol. 59, no. 2 (Spring 1991): 97-110.

Climate, Cropping, and Society in Vermont, 1820-1850
David Demeritt, vol. 59, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 133-165.

The Vermont Secretary and the Apache POWs: Redfield Proctor and the Case of the Chiricahuas
Colin G. Calloway, vol. 59, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 166-179.

Why Are We Still Vermonters? Vermont’s Identity Crisis and the Founding of the Vermont Historical Society
Randolph Roth, vol. 59, no. 4 (Fall 1991): 197-211.

Deficiencies in Our Past
P. Jeffrey Potash, vol. 59, no. 4 (Fall 1991): 212-226.

Reflections on Three Classics of Vermont History
William J. Gilmore-Lehne, vol. 59, no. 4 (Fall 1991): 227-249.

"The Curse of Our Trade": Occupational Disease in a Vermont Granite Town
Wendy Richardson, vol. 60, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 5-28

The Wreck of the General Butler and the Mystery of Lake Champlain’s Sailing Canal Boats
Arthur Cohn and Marshall True, vol. 60, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 29-45.

The Autobiography of Levi Allen
Edited by Michael Bellesiles, vol. 60, no. 2 (Spring 1992): 77-94.

Migrants and Millworkers: The French Canadian Population of Burlington and Colchester, 1860-1870
Betsy Beattie, vol. 60, no. 2 (Spring 1992): 95-117.

George Gale: Vermont Yankee on the Wisconsin Frontier
Karel D. Bicha, vol. 60, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 141-154.

George Aiken and the Taft-Hartley Act
Paul M. Searls, vol. 60, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 155-166.

Vermont Yankees in King Cotton’s Court: The Case of Cyrena and Amherst Stone
Thomas G. Dyer, vol. 60, no. 4 (Fall 1992): 205-229.

Aiken and Vietnam: A Dialogue with Vermont Voters
Charles F. O’Brien, vol. 61, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 5-17.

The Early House in Northeastern Vermont: Typical and Atypical Forms, 1770-1830
Jan Leo Lewandoski, vol. 61, no. 1 (Winter 1993): 18-40.

The Working Lives of African Vermonters in Census and Literature, 1790-1870
Elise A. Guyette, vol. 61, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 69-84.

From "One Town, One [or Two] Vote[s]" to "One Person, One Vote": The Impact of Reapportionment on Vermont, 1777-1992
Howard Ball, vol. 61, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 85-99.

Espionage in Windsor: Clarence H. Waldron and Patriotism in World War I
Gene Sessions, vol. 61, no. 3 (Summer 1993): 133-155.

The Press and the Pulpit: Nativist Voices in Burlington and Middlebury, 1853-1860
Luisa Spencer Finberg, vol. 61, no. 3 (Summer 1993): 156-175.

“A Doctrinal Controversy Between the Hopkintonian and the Universalist”: Religion, Race, and Ideology in Postrevolutionary Vermont
John Saillant, vol. 61, no. 4 (Fall 1993): 197-216.

Four Miles to the Falls: A History of the Beldens Falls Branch Railroad
Greg Pahl, vol. 61, no. 4 (Fall 1993): 217-232.

Transition Politics: Vermont, 1940-1952
Samuel B. Hand and Paul M. Searls, vol. 62, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 5-25.

Mason S. Stone and Progressivism in Vermont Public Education, 1892-1916
Michele A. Cross, vol. 62, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 26-40.

Cabin Religion in Vermont, 1724-1791
T. D. Seymour Bassett, vol. 62, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 69-87.

Sarah Cleghorn, Antivivisection, and Victorian Sensitivity About Pain and Cruelty
Craig Buettinger, vol. 62, no. 2 (Spring 1994): 88-100

Vermont’s First Public Safety Commissioner
Jon T. Hoffman, vol. 62, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 133-147.

“A Class of Persons Whose Presence Is a Constant Danger”: Progress, Prohibition, and “Public Disorderliness” in Burlington, 1860-1880
Michel J. Martin, vol. 62, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 148-165.

A New Look at Vermont's Oldest Art: Understanding the Bellows Falls Petroglyphs
William A. Haviland and Marjory W. Power, vol. 62, no. 4 (Fall 1994): 197-213

The Calvin Coolidge Inauguration Revisited: An Eyewitness Account by Congressman Porter H. Dale
Christopher D. Dale and Porter H. Dale II, vol. 62, no.4 (Fall 1994): 214-222

Not Your Ordinary Sleigh Ride: Two Early-Nineteenth-Century Winter Travelers on Lake Champlain
Jennie Versteeg, vol. 63, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 5-14.

Vermont Nativism: William Paul Dillingham and U.S. Immigration Legislation
John M. Lund, vol. 63, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 15-29.

Ethan Allen’s Irish Friends
Eugene A. Coyle and John J. Duffy, vol. 63, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 69-79.

The Civil War Letters of S. E. and S. M. Pingree, 1862-1864
Kelly A. Nolin, vol. 63, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 80-94.

No Parking: Vermont Rejects the Green Mountain Parkway
Hannah Silverstein, vol. 63, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 133-157.

James Taylor's Progressive Vision: The Green Mountain Parkway
Hal Goldman, vol. 63, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 158-179.

Abby Hemenway's Road to Rome
Deborah P. Clifford, vol. 63, no. 4 (Fall 1995): 197-213.

A Forest in Every Town: Vermont’s History of Communal Woodlands
Robert L. McCullough, vol. 64, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 5-35.

When Industry Was King in Craftsbury
Daniel A. Metraux, vol. 64, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 36-39.

The Formation of Town Churches
John C. DeBoer and Clara Merritt DeBoer, vol. 64, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 69-88.

A Most Unsettled Time on Lake Champlain: The October 1776 Journal of Jahiel Stewart
Donald Wickman, editor, vol. 64, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 89-98.

Vermont’s Second State House: A Temple of Republican Democracy
T. D. Seymour Bassett, vol. 64, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 99-107.

Sight Unseen: Tracking the Unexpected
Collamer M. Abbott, vol. 64, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 108-112.

Propaganda, Pestilence, and Prosperity: Burlington's Camptown Days During the War of 1812
Karen Stites Campbell, vol. 64, no. 3 (Summer 1996): 133-158.
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Adoption and the Law in Vermont, 1804-1863: An Introductory Essay
Edward A. Hoyt, Michael Sherman, vol. 64, no. 3 (Summer 1996): 159-173.

Scots Among the Yankees: The Settlement of Craftsbury East Hill
Bruce P. Shields, vol. 64, no. 3 (Summer 1996): 174-183.

Green Mountain Insurgency: Transformation of New York's Forty-Year Land War
Donald A. Smith, vol. 64, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 197-231.
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Yankee Party or Southern Strategy? George Aiken and the Republican Party, 1936-1972
Bruce H. Kalk, vol. 64, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 236-250.

“Blood Calls for Vengeance!” The History of Capital Punishment in Vermont
Randolph Roth, vol. 65, no. 1&2 (Winter/Spring 1997): 10-25.

The Evolution of the Vermont Tax System
Paul Gillies, vol. 65, no. 1&2 (Winter/Spring 1997): 26-44.

State Government and Education: “For the Due Encouragement of Learning and the Better Regulating and Ordering of Schools”
Jeffrey Potash, vol. 65, no. 1&2 (Winter/Spring 1997): 45-64.

Accidental Tourists: Visitors to the Mount Mansfield Summit House in the Late Nineteenth Century
Dona Brown, vol. 65, no. 3&4 (Summer/Fall 1997): 117-130

"A Desirable Class of People": The Leadership of the Green Mountain Club and Social Exclusivity, 1920-1936.
Hal Goldman, vol. 65, no. 3&4 (Summer/Fall 1997): 131-152.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher's "Tourists Accommodated" and Her Other Promotions of Vermont
Ida H. Washington, vol. 65, no. 3&4 (Summer/Fall 1997): 153-164

"Will's Panther Club": Reverend William J. Ballou, The Irrepressible and Uncompromising Order of Pantherites, and Chester Vermont, Catamount-Sighting Controversy, 1934-1936
Thomas L. Altherr, vol. 66, no. 1&2 (Winter/Spring 1998): 5-30

A Vermonter on the Trail of Tears, 1830-1837.
Brett E. Whalen, vol. 66, no. 1&2 (Winter/Spring 1998): 31-38.

"I must again remind you that you are a Vermonter": Henry Stevens, Historical Tradition, and Green Mountain State Patriotism in the 1840s
David E. Narrett, vol. 66, no. 3&4 (Summer/Fall 1998): 69-101.

Alternative Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Vermont
John M. McPartland and Patty Pruitt, vol. 66, no. 3&4 (Summer/Fall 1998): 102-111.

A German Perspective on the American Attempt to Recapture the British Forts at Ticonderoga and Mount Independence on September 18, 1777
Ronald F. Kingsley and Helga Doblin, vol. 67, no. 1&2 (Winter/Spring 1999): 5-26

Vermont's Nineteenth-Century Civil Religion
T. D. Seymour Bassett, vol. 67, no. 1&2 (Winter/Spring 1999): 27-53

The Letters of Louden S. Langley
Edited by James Fuller, vol. 67, no. 3&4 (Summer/Fall 1999): 85-91.

In Their Words: Reading, Writing, and War: A Vermonter's Experience in the Port Royal Experiment, 1863-1871
Edited by Alice McShane, vol. 67, no. 3&4 (Summer/Fall 1999): 101-114.