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We still have to make some of the changes from Wednesday’s class (4/12), including separating the right sidebar so it looks cleaner and creating a better Intro page.  It was Easter weekend, so we did not get much done since Friday, I have been home to see my family. Thursday and Friday we did work […]

Nate and I have been reading through the books that we have collected such as History of Vermont by Ira Allen and others that cover more specific topics. The Ira Allen book is a primary source and a wealth of information for us. We are also getting along okay with the Vermont History Journals (from […]

Sources found: 1) Benning Wentworth’s Claims in the New Hampshire-New York Border Controversy: A case of Twenty-Twenty Hindsight? (1975) By: Allan R. Raymond This source secondary source explores the New Hampshire-New York border controversy through a contemporary point of view. The author claims that many look at the controversy through a modern perspective, letting Wentworth’s […]

Anthony Mastrantonio Nate Schnittman COPLAC, UIS Contract 3/19/2017 Mission Statement When looking at our audience, we wish to cater to undergraduate students, our website will be a jumping off point for further research into Vermont secession. Accessibility is key to our initial planning, we want our visitors to get a comprehensive view of the Vermont […]

Mission Statement When looking at our audience, we wish to cater to the local residents of Vermont, specifically, the Second Vermont Republic. They are a modern day Vermont secessionist movement that wishes to restore the original Vermont Republic run by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. We are aware they are most likely familiar […]

1. Allen, Ira. The Natural and Political History of the State of Vermont. Reprint. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. 2. Bellesiles J. Michael. “The Establishment of Legal Structures on the Frontier: The Case of Revolutionary Vermont,” The Journal of American History Vol 73, No. 4 (March 1987): pp. 895-915, accessed March 5, 2017, http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1904054.pdf. […]

The author focuses on the fall of the Soviet-union and the emergence of a new-born Russia. What I found most interesting about this article is was the idea of the importance of language in unified states. In particular, the role that educational systems in a new born state plays in the cultivation of new states. […]

Spencer’s reading gives a brief overview of the Oneida Society. The society lasted from 1848 till 1879 in upper New York State and consisted of over 300 Christian Communities. Their leader and founder was John Humphrey Noyes, who was regarded as being the anointed leader chosen directly by God (largely self-exclaimed by Noyes). The community […]

Steven Ozment’s, “Turning the World Upside Down” (from Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution), asks the question, “was the Protestant Reformation a Revolution?” In order to properly answer that question, the author states that we must first ask, “why so many Germans had become so mad at the Church of Rome in the early 16th […]