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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Most Americans associate evangelicals with the hard-right precincts of the Republican Party. But as Dartmouth religion professor Randall Balmer explains, evangelicalism in America has a much longer and more complex history, including a distinguished pedigree of working for progressive reforms. What happened? Recorded 5/22/19 by Middlebury Community Television.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library
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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Frederic Church painted landscapes of distinctive American features, including Natural Bridge in Virginia and Niagara Falls in New York. Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores how and why we used these American landscapes to distinguish the scale and scope of our cultural ambitions. Recorded 5/1/19.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library
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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Author and advocate Susan Clark explains the Slow Democracy movement in which ordinary people mobilize to find local solutions to local problems. In the process some find they can bridge the “us-them” divide so prevalent in our national politics. Recorded 4/3/19.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library
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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Dartmouth professor Peter Travis discusses the subtle irony with which Chaucer depicts his pilgrims, leaving us to judge them for ourselves. Recorded 3/6/19.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library
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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Shelburne Museum director Thomas Denenberg discusses the Wyeths–N.C. (1882-1945), Andrew (1917-2009), and Jamie (b. 1946)–and offers new perspectives on these painters. Recorded 12/5/18.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library
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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]UVM History Professor Mark A. Stoler examines the important personal relationship between Britain’s Prime Minister and America’s President during their World War II alliance. Recorded 6/6/18.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library
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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Middlebury College professor emeritus John Keenan considers how we come to understand scripture and gain an interfaith reading of the text by stepping back to see it in context and by stepping aside the text to see parallels and similarities with other traditions.Recorded 4/4/18.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library
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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]UVM professor Emily Bernard explores how Beloved argues that America must reckon with the consequences of our nation’s original sin–slavery. Recorded 1/3/18.[/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Ilsley Public Library