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Vermont History Pathfinder

 

                  

 

Are you studying Vermont history and don’t know where to begin?

This pathfinder is created for you. It contains a list of resources available through the school library and the internet.  It has been specifically designed for the fourth through eighth graders at Orwell Village School.  If you have difficulty with accessing anything from this pathfinder, please bring it to the attention of the librarian.

 

Vermont History Project Resources

 

Internet guides for research and writing

Beginning a term paper

"Big 6" help for research and writing research papers

 

Vermont History Web Sites

Vermont and the Civil War

Vermont in the Union Army/Civil War

Civil War information

Vermont Historical Society

Famous Vermonters

 

Books

Books available through our library are primarily in the Dewey Decimal 974.3 section of non-fiction. Some other sources outside of the 974.3 section are listed for their importance.  There are other books available in fiction that may influence an understanding of the history of a certain time or area of Vermont.

 

Non-fiction

  • Albers, Jan.  Hands on the Land.  974.3ALB  (History of the land of Vermont).

  • Carpenter, Allen.  Vermont.  974.3CAR  (An overview of Vermont, from Statehood to mid 20th century.)

  • Cohn, Arthur B.  Lake Champlain’s Sailing Canal Boats.  973.4COH  (Photographs and history of Lake Champlain and it’s role in the industrial revolution.)

  • *Cooley, Oscar.  When Grandpa was a Boy.  974.3COO (An accounting of life in Vermont at the turn of the 20th century.)

  • Costello, Steve.  Meeri Meets the Ospreys.  598.9COS  (A woman helps Ospreys strengthen their population within Vermont)

  • Daniels, Thomas.  Vermont Indians.  974.3DAN (Vermont’s Native Americans – culture and lore.)

  • Flocker, Michael.  Vermont, The Green Mountain State.  974.3FLO (World Almanac publication of library of states - highlights include history, land, people, government.)

  • Fuller, Edmund.  Vermont: A History of the Green Mountain State.  974.3FUL  (Overview of Vermont History.  1952 publication.)

  • Hard, Walter R. Jr. (Ed.).  Mischief in the Mountains.  974.3HAR  ( Strange but true stories from Vermont’s history).

  • Hill, Ralph Nading.  The Story of the Shelburne Museum.  974.3HIL  (How Shelburne museum came to be)

  • Huntington, Lee Pennock.  Brothers in Arms.  974.3HUN  (Revolutionary War history of a family divided by political choices)

  • Johnson, Charles W. The Nature of Vermont.  974.3JOH  (Natural history of Vermont)

  • Krawitt, Laura (Ed).  The Mills at Winooski Falls.  974.3MIL  (The historical mills in northern Burlington and their impact on the economy and lives of Vermonters.)

  • Lasky, Katherine.  Sugaring Time.  633.6LAS  (A story of a Vermont family’s maple sugaring operation.)

  • Masterton, Elsie and John.  Nothing Whatever To Do:  The Story of Blueberry Hill Farm and How it Happened.  974.3MAS  (Local history of Blueberry Hill Ski area in Goshen, VT)

  • Merrill, Perry.  Vermont Under Four Flags.  974.3MER  (History of Vermont 1635-1975.)

  • Miller, Peter.  Vermont Farm Women.  305.43MIL (Photos and accounts of hardworking Vermont women of the 20th century.)

  • Orwell Historical Society.  A History of the Town of Orwell, Vermont.  974.3ORW.  (Book is published by the Orwell Historical society and contains much information and many pictures of people and places throughout the town.)

  • Reynolds, Cynthia.  M is for Maple Syrup: A Vermont Alphabet.  974.3REY (A very good and easy to understand text of Vermont’s famous people, places and characteristic activities.)

  • Vachon, Brian (Ed.). Vermont for Every Season.  974.3VAC  (Essays and pictures of Vermont)

  • Wheeler, Joseph and Mabel.  The Mount Independence-Hubbardton 1776 Military Road.  974.3WHE  (Revolutionary war history of the battles of Mount Independence and Hubbardton.)

  • Bober, Natalie.  A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost.  B Frost  (Includes time Frost spent in Vermont)

  • Coolidge, Calvin.  The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge.  B Coolidge  ( The life and times of President Coolidge, in his own words.)

  • Hahn, Michael.  Ann Story:  Vermont’s heroine of independence.  B Story  (Life of Ann Story and her impact during the Revolutionary War)

  • *Martin, Jacqueline Briggs.  Snowflake Bentley.  B Bentley (Easy to understand portrait of the man who photographed snowflakes.)

  • Orton, Vrest.  Calvin Coolidge’s Unique Vermont Inauguration.  B Coolidge  ( A retelling of Coolidge’s inauguration-1923)

  • Ripley, Sheldon.  Ethan Allen, Green Mountain Hero.  B Allen  (Accounting of Ethan Allen’s life and importance to early Vermont.)

  • Stoddard, Gloria May.  Snowflake Bentley:  Man of Science, Man of God.  B Bentley  (Text and photographs of the life of Wilson Bentley)

 

Easy Reader and Fiction Books

 

  • Danziger, Jeff.  The Champlain Monster.  F DAN  (Description of “Champ”)

  • Daris, Deane.  Justice in the Mountains.  SC DAR (Stories from a Vermont country lawyer)

  • Graff, Nancy Price.  Taking Wing.  F GRA  (Set in 1942, a 13 year old boy comes to live on his grandparent’s farm in Vermont.)

  • Haas, Jessie.  Unbroken.  F HAA  (A young orphan goes to live with relatives on a Vermont farm in 1910.)

  • Henry, Marguerite.  Justin Morgan had a Horse.  F HEN  (Fictional account of the beginning of the Morgan Horse breed.)

  • Hurwitz, Johanna.  Faraway Summer.  F HUR  (A 1910 setting in Vermont, when a young Jewish Russian girl gets to spend the summer at a farm in Vermont.)

  • Jackson, Edgar Newman.  Green Mountain Hero. F JAC  (A story of Ethan Allen during the Revolutionary War period).

  • Kinsey Warnock, Natalie.  1. As Long as There Are Mountains.  F KIN  (Told through the eyes of a young girl, the trials of growing up on a farm in the first half of the 20th century.)    2. From Dawn to Dusk.  E KIN  (A depiction of farm life in Vermont through a child’s eyes.)   3.  Nora’s Ark.  E KIN  (A dramatization of the 1927 flood that devastated parts of northern Vermont).

  • Ovecka, Janice.  1.  Cave of Falling Water.  F OVE  (Examines the lives of three young girls in different time periods of Vermont).    2.  Captive of Pittsford Ridge. F OVE  (1777 Battle of Hubbardton, the lives of a young Vermonter and a young English soldier collide.) 

 

Audio Sets

  • Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie.  As Long As There Are Mountains.  CD’s and book.

 

Video

  • *The Northeast Region: People and Heritage.  V 974 NOR  ( Contains information on Vermont as well as the surrounding New England states.)

  • *The Northeast Region:  the Environment.  V 917 NOR  (Contains information on Vermont’s environment and the surrounding New England states.)

 

Periodicals

  • *Vermont Magazine: back issues 2003-2006.

  • *Rutland Herald, newspaper: current day and yesterday’s copies available.