Center for Research on Vermont

About this original series

CRV acts as a clearinghouse for Vermont-related research. CRV's Research-in-Progress Seminar Series and referred publications program offer a continuing forum for scholarly discourse on Vermont. Through a long-standing partnership with RETN Channel 16, more than a decade of CRV seminars have been archived. For a complete catalog of on-demand content from CRV, visit retn.org.

# Episodes
8 episodes
Rating
TV-UN

Episodes of Center for Research on Vermont

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  Backward Seasons, Droughts, Maple Sugaring, and ...
  
  Annual Meeting PresentationLesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux highlights how climatologists use records about phenology (e.g., budding, full bloom conditions) and agricultural patterns to reconstruct the local meteorological conditions and climate around Vermont and New Hampshire for the 1680–1900 period.For a complete media catalog of Center for Research on Vermont content since 1996, visit retn.org.
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    Jun 3, 2010
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    56:14
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  Senator Robert Stafford: A Work in Progress
  
  Research-in-Progress Seminar #229Senator Robert Stafford (1913–2006), a native Vermonter and a lifelong Republican, began his distinguished career as Rutland City Prosecutor. Taking advantage of political opportunities, he climbed the political ladder to hold every major statewide office. He never lost an election.Travis Beal Jacobs is Fletcher D. Proctor Professor Emeritus of American History at Middlebury College, where he taught American history from 1965 to 2008.
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    May 4, 2010
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    01:00:30
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  Vermont as a Civil Society: The Search for a Gen...
  
  Research-in-Progress Seminar #227Frank Bryan begins by defending an assertion: Vermont is unique in its status as a civil society. Given this, he explores one causal sequence of variables that might explain why this is so. In so doing, he presents some new evidence of his own and comments on some of the literature that has proffered explanations of Vermont's socio/political development.
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    Apr 6, 2010
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    01:22:06
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  Refugees and Transportation Equity in Vermont
  
  Research-in-Progress Seminar #226Refugees are among the more vulnerable members of the broader population, lacking many of the basic resources and support systems others take for granted. One example is is the availability and access for refugee communities to affordable and convenient transportation in order to get to new jobs, schools, hospitals, community centers, and a raft of other services necessary to help them transition to their new lives.
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    Feb 27, 2010
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    01:02:52
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  War and Social Transformation on the Champlain-H...
  
  Research-in-Progress Seminar #224The near-concurrent exploratory missions of Samuel de Champlain and Henry Hudson in 1609 signaled the opening of an axis of contact, commerce, and warfare through the borderland between New France and the Dutch and English colonies to the south. This seminar re-examines the region’s turbulent military history in the context of this broader social and economic transformation. For a complete media catalog of Center for Research on Vermont content since 1996, visi...
  - Release date
    
    Dec 8, 2009
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    01:00:00
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  Imagining Vermont: Process and Results of The Co...
  
  Research SeminarPaul Costello and Sarah Waring share the results of the two-year Council on the Future of Vermont project. Combining public forums, focus groups, listening sessions, polling data and trend line research, the finished product is a reflection of Vermonters' values, concerns and priorities.For a complete media catalog of Center for Research on Vermont content since 1996, visit retn.org.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 4, 2009
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    01:04:30
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  The Tour Buses Don't Stop Here Anymore: Social, ...
  
  Research-in-Progress Seminar #223For six years, photographer and writer Karl Decker and writer Nancy Levine visited 35 Vermont communities and interviewed townspeople about a variety of social, economic and environmental issues their towns have faced. In this seminar they report on their findings and how these problems were recognized, faced, maybe solved, or have yet to be resolved.For a complete media catalog of Center for Research on Vermont content since 1996, visit retn.org.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 16, 2009
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    01:02:41
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  Counting Vermont in the 21st Century: The 2010 C...
  
  Research-in-Progress Seminar #222No longer will our ten-year census provide data on income, employment, poverty, education, and a host of other categories. Vermonters and all Americans will now get these valuable data points from a new source: the American Community Survey.What do these changes mean, and why were they made? Frederick Schmidt and William "Chip" Sawyer present.For a complete media catalog of Center for Research on Vermont content since 1996, visit retn.org.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 11, 2009
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    01:00:43